Goldman Sachs vice chair on the hidden trap of senior management: ‘pretty soon the bosses are no longer watching you’

For many ambitious professionals, climbing the corporate ladder is the ultimate goal. But according to Rob Kaplan, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs, reaching the upper echelons of management comes with a dangerous, often unseen pitfall: a sudden lack of supervision.

“When you’re junior, you’ve got senior people watching everything you do,” he explained during a recent masterclass conversation with Meena Flynn, Goldman’s chair of Global Private Wealth Management.

Kaplan added...