Accenture CEO: "One of my superpowers is asking for help"

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Accenture CEO Julie Sweet sat down with Fortune Editor-in-Chief Alyson Shontell for the launch of Fortune’s new vodcast, Fortune 500 Titans and Disrupters, where she shared that “one of her superpowers is asking for help.”

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00:00I think one of my superpowers is asking for help.

00:03You know, I, and maybe that goes back to humility and the idea of building great teams.

00:07And so I've always been that way.

00:09I've always, you know, if you focus on how you deliver value, then it becomes very natural

00:16that you have to have a team and you have to ask for help because at the level that

00:20we operate, no one delivers value alone.

00:23And one of the things I coach a lot of people, because people come to me and say, well, how

00:29do I network?

00:30Etc.

00:30And I'm like, look, don't think about networking.

00:32Think about connecting with people that can help you deliver more value or who you can

00:37help deliver more value and focus on that as opposed to someone who can get you your next

00:43job, because the more value you can contribute your company, the more likely you're going

00:48to get that best next job.

00:50And I've always thought about that with my clients, right?

00:53It's like, what do my clients need?

00:54They need me to better understand this.

00:56And when I was the general counsel, my client was actually the company.

01:00And what did they need from me?

01:01They needed me to understand the business better, to be a better general counsel.

01:05And so that focus on value has really been, I think, a big part of my career trajectory.

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