Julie Sweet is one of the most powerful executives in the world, overseeing a 770,000-person workforce at consulting giant Accenture . In her role, she speaks to more Fortune 500 CEOs than almost anyone—dozens of companies pay Accenture $100 million-plus in a single quarter to help them solve their biggest problems—so she has her finger on the pulse of the biggest issues in business today.
I sat down with Sweet for the launch of a new vodcast I’m hosting, Fortune 500: Titans and Disrupters of Industry (watch the full episode here , and subscribe on YouTube or Spotify ). You can think of it as CEO Office Hours: If you get to spend a full hour with the most experienced business leaders on the planet, what wisdom can you extract?
Here’s some of what we discussed in our hour-long