Katie Koch
Appearances
Redefiners
Redefiners Rewind: Insights and Takeaways from 2024
One phrase that someone gave to me that I think about a lot is tough decisions, easy life, easy decisions, tough life. So one of the ways that I kind of gear myself up to make those difficult decisions is, first of all, always putting at the center of everything, like what's the right thing for TCW?
Redefiners
Redefiners Rewind: Insights and Takeaways from 2024
That's something I learned, by the way, at Goldman Sachs from one of my mentors, Stephen Sher, who used the term industrial logic. Like if you're coming at it from the place of like, what's the right thing for the company and the clients, you'll end up with the right decision more often than not. Of course, you can get some things wrong, but you'll be trending in the right direction.
Redefiners
Redefiners Rewind: Insights and Takeaways from 2024
She would say to us, well, what decision would you make if you knew you wouldn't fail? And that was very important for me growing up because I was kind of like a perfectionist. perfectionist and risk averse. And I only wanted to try things I knew I would succeed at.
Redefiners
Redefiners Rewind: Insights and Takeaways from 2024
And that framing allowed me to come at the world instead of from a place of scarcity or a place of fear, actually a place of optimism and abundance. And it allowed me to take chances and risks that I otherwise wouldn't have taken.