Capital One Business - Master of the Scale

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Parnas Aron of Capital One Business shares a lesson she learned the hard way. She was embarrassed when associates came to her office one by one and shared some critical feedback. So she held a town hall for the entire team. It got emotional. "I went from one split second of sheer loneliness to just feeling that I was with a family"

What drove the meteoric rise of David Droga’s trailblazing agency Droga5? A series of daring, unexpected leaps — tactics he’s now applying at mega-scale as head of Accenture Song. Conventional wisdom tells you to ‘climb the ladder’ of success linearly — as an individual or a company. But David’s unexpected moves — leaning into creative partnerships and controversial programs — accelerated his path to scale. David tells us: “I’m more scared of repetition than I am of failure.”

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