Jon Gray said Blackstone asks junior employees to speak up at deal meetings.
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- Blackstone encourages junior staff to speak at deal meetings, fostering open dialogue.
- It can be "scary," said Jon Gray, the firm's president, on a recent podcast.
- A former intern told BI last year that a senior leader said to him "rank doesn't matter here."
Blackstone's president said that senior executives often ask the most junior people...