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Matt Leads
Saturday, 27 September, 2008
8:22 PM
How did Matt Leads get into the situation?
Background:
Current situation: bored, lack of responsibility and frustrated with his relationship with his boss Dan Lyle and colleague eleanor swift.
A bias from his boss
Could he have done anything differently to help himself Are there things he should ve done that he didn’t?
Any key mistakes?

Matt leads personality
Saturday, 27 September, 2008
8:31 PM
Background :
• Settled for chicago because of family.
• Chose Danner over Right away because of too much concentration and responsibility over marketing.

Personality
• Action oriented person
• Indecisive about what he wanted
• Narrow focused on training
• He was just impressed and biased over consulting because others did so.
• Expectations not maintained. Eg: from disappointment when Clark didn’t recognize him. And his boss's reception given that he was busy.
• Influenced by other people "seemed to be affected by the grimace from the consultant about swift and Lyle.
• Shy about asking questions
• Intimidated by Swift's personality
Mistakes
• Gave away an opportunity for quick upward career movement as he was reporting to VP while he would start as an Assistant consultant at Danner
• Could have better handled the initial conversation with Dan about his Confirmation bias about MBAs. Page 5
• Missed out on Dan's word of 2 weeks specifics about his responsibility

Choice of job
Interview process @ Danner
Met Howard Greer
Met Richard Clark MD of Chicago-initial impression impressive.
Info that Chicagooffice was a supportive bunck and worked hard and liked to have fun. Saturday, 27 September, 2008
8:41 PM Right-away
• Already a track record
• Apprehensive about his relationship with his new boss o Failed to leverage on his past relationship with president and a social belonging
• Failed to realize that he was accustomed to the culture
• Afraid of

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