Finally, I was invited in to see Robert Baldwin, the president of the firm. Bob had been under secretary of the navy. A navy flag and the flag of the United States stood behind the desk in his office. Morgan Stanley would be hiring just seven associates that year, and Bob offered me the chance to be one of them. It was an enormous honor, but it came with a significant condition: I would have to change my personality. Morgan Stanley was a buttoned-down, hierarchical culture. I couldn’t be my opinionated, proactive self. Bob said I had the talent to work there; I just had to adapt.
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