“The mistake people make is they’re like, ‘I’m going to really kiss up to the bosses, and I’m going to be sharp-elbowed with the people side by side and the people at the bottom,’” Gray said.
He urged analysts instead to “be as nice to everybody you touch inside the building, outside the building,” calling kindness “an amazing superpower to have.”
To succeed, Gray told employees they should “work harder and care more; this is not complicated.” He also encouraged them to think like entrepreneurs and “treat people in a really great way, the way you would like to be treated.”
The shift to skills-based hiring is growing globally as more companies implement artificial intelligence into their workflows, according to Great Place to Work CEO Michael Bush.
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