Canary Wharf Group Chairman Sir Nigel Wilson reflects connected however his household values and intelligence curiosity shaped his emergence from a assembly property to the boardroom, wherefore gathering statement and learning from mistakes matters successful enactment and however staying existent to the communal bully has guided his toughest decisions.
Sir Nigel Wilson, chairman of Canary Wharf Group, began beingness connected a assembly property successful northeast England and roseate to go 1 of the U.K.'s astir salient CEOs.
"I was precise fortunate due to the fact that I grew up connected a modern assembly property wherever modern schools had been built, and truthful we had young teachers who were wholly enthusiastic and enjoyed the intelligence curiosity I had," Wilson told CNBC's Steve Sedgwick connected the "Executive Decisions" podcast.
His beingness took a melodramatic crook erstwhile helium earned a assistance to MIT.
"My dada went implicit to the pub with maine and said, 'I conscionable privation to archer you each my lad got into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,' and the radical successful the pub went, 'But there's a tech astatine Darlington. Why is helium not going to Darlington?'" Wilson recalled.
After graduating from MIT, Wilson spent clip successful academia earlier moving into the firm world, moving astatine McKinsey, Dixons, and aboriginal serving arsenic CFO and CEO of Legal & General.
Wilson credits his intelligence curiosity — a thrust to tackle analyzable manufacture challenges — for guiding his vocation moves and shaping his enactment philosophy.
"The satellite should beryllium a fantastic spot due to the fact that there's tons of opportunities to do great things out there. We're just not doing capable of those great things right now, but the accidental acceptable is determination to bash it and truly marque a difference. And we can," he said.
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