Blackstone’s Jon Gray Sees Calmness as Strategic Advantage

Blackstone’s Jon Gray has a rare leadership profile: part investor, part operator, part institutional memory, and part extremely calm person in situations that would have most people at least raising their voices at a spreadsheet. Where does the placidity come from? Read on for takeaways from my latest podcast episode .

Jon Gray is president and chief operating officer of one of the largest investment firms in the world, which means many days he’s making multibillion-dollar decisions while the rest of us are still debating what to have for lunch.