Accenture Plc. CEO Julie Sweet says the lesson that steered her career arrived on a dark drive home from a speech contest when she was 15.
What Happened: Sweet recalled that after she complained about losing to "the daughter of the president" of the local Lions Club, her father replied, "First of all, Julie, you're never going to be the daughter of the president of the Lions Club. That's not the family you were born into… and I believe you can do anything, but you have to be so much better than anyone else that they have to give it to you. Tonight, you weren't that much better."
