I'm only a sophomore in college, but I'm curious to know what it takes to be a rainmaker. For those of you that have worked alongside rainmakers, what made them special? And if I wanted to set myself up to be one, what can I start doing now and what skills should I start developing?
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check out Jim Donovan's videos on youtube.
I'm still impressed by his speech and he provides a good answer to your question.
That dude is boring as fuck. Why would anyone want to emulate him
Different views.
To me he sounds incredibly calm and really knowledgeable about what he talks about while being able to avoid “uuh ohh ahh” in the speech.
I’d rather do business with a person of this type rather than a someone that acts as a clown.
IMO he has all the abilities to be a good rainmaker (and he is)
I'd rather not do business with someone who has a giant stick up his ass
Honestly, how can anyone be inspired by a literal reptilian who behaves like Agent Smith?
- his facial expression when he says "I'll spend a little bit of time explaining why it's exciting"
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I'm in consulting not banking but we have a partner who brings in c.4/5 times our partners targets each year so I would class him as a "rainmaker" a few things i've noticed with him
They make you feel comfortable. Even when I was a first year analyst he made me feel like a peer not an employee. Internally this helps with making sure people perform for you...
The work product is genuinely outstanding, we displaced a large firm (ACN/B4) and got done in 2 months what they couldn't in 7 months. The boards jaws literally dropped when the results came in
Constant working. There is a feeling on this board that when you become MD life is 9-6ish that is 100% not true noone in my firm works harder than the partners and the rainmakers work much harder, this guy has moved his family across 3 continents to service specific clients and is never not working. it's impressive but also a little sad
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