I found Mike Dost’s lecture really interesting. The path he took from college to graduate school straight to the government was a very different route than any of the other speakers we have heard in previous weeks. The concept I found most interesting was how apolitical he needed to be when working for the government. To work for one cause for eight years and then with a change in president, completely take up the opposite side must take a remarkable amount of discipline, especially if the change goes against what you personally believe in. His job is to take the sect of government he was working for from A to B and to do it in the most efficient way possible, regardless of his individual beliefs.
That apolitical attitude, while extreme in that government role, can be carried over to most aspects of business. The vast majority of people are obviously not the CEO or CFO, and a part of work requires accepting the ideas of your employers even if you personally think differently or think you could do it in a better way. Sometimes your job isn’t about making choices, its just about helping the company accomplish them; and that’s a lesson that will stick with me from Mike Dost’s lecture.
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