In this podcast, Stephen Schwarzman, CEO of private equity firm Blackstone, discusses his new book Lessons In the Pursuit Of Excellence. He discusses his early days at Lehmans, describing its cutthroat culture. He was told ‘you don’t get stabbed in the back…you get stabbed in the front’ – a harbinger of what was to come in 2008…
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