Fortune· 336d ago· 1 min read
Accenture CEO Julie Sweet never thought she would one day be in the running for the top job at her company; she did not fit the traditional mold. However, when her former boss asked if she was interested, Sweet did not let her instincts of self-doubt kick in. Instead, she leaned on the advice of a former JPMorgan Chase exec who says never to question a promotion you don’t feel ready for.
You never know when your big break will come knocking. For Julie Sweet , it came just a month before she was diagnosed with breast cancer at the end of 2014, during a regular one-to-one with her boss—then-CEO of Accenture, Pierre Nanterme .
“At the end of the meeting, he closes his notebook and he pushes it aside, and he says to me, completely out of the blue… ‘I think you could run this place someday,'” Sweet recalled the pivotal moment in her career to Fortune ’s Titans and Disruptors of Industry…
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