Why ‘Grit starts at the copy machine,’ is still great advice, according to Evite CEO David Yeom

The first three days of my career were spent in front of a copy machine. I was fresh out of college, newly hired at Arthur Andersen in downtown Los Angeles, convinced I was about to dive headfirst into the high-stakes world of auditing and consulting. On my first day, I arrived prepared to use every tool I’d just learned at school to impress my peers and superiors. Instead, I stood there for three days, copying stack after stack of audit and tax documents. Thousands of pages. One aft...