A CEO's counsel for 21-year-olds

References to popular movies and a conversational writing style make this book an easy read

During placement interviews at the end of her course at the University of Pennsylvania, the author was rejected by seven consultancy firms. These serial rejections left her so distraught that she contemplated jumping out of the window of her dorm on the 19th floor.

In the eighth interview, which was with McKinsey, she hit it off with the interviewer over their shared love for bridge. The interviewer was a champion bridge player and Radhika Gupta had been playing the game since the age of 13. Such are the quirks of fate. Life dealt her a few bad hands and then showered