Episode notes
Every children's book teaches your kid to be the lone hero. Goldman Sachs Managing Director Eva Wiecko argues this hero culture is the single biggest obstacle to collaboration , in boardrooms, in society, and in how we raise the next generation. Listen to her perspective on what high-stakes M&A transactions reveal about human nature. Subscribe for more episodes on real-world collaboration. Eva Wiecko has spent nearly 14 years at Goldman Sachs, rising to Managing Director in investment banking's M&A department. Her perspective on collaboration is shaped by leading teams through some of Germany's largest corporate transactions , including restructuring the utility industry in a deal involving RWE, E.ON, and Innogy , where billions of euros and thousands of jobs depend on people with fundamentally different interests finding common ground. T ...