How Wei Li became a BlackRock bigwig by making herself replaceable

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This isn’t our immediate conversation, of course. Nor is her introversion immediately obvious. She is friendly, lively, enthusiastic, and much better at eye contact than me. We end up having a longer lunch than expected; and even by the end of that, neither of us seems to be itching to get away for some quiet me-time. We’re going to linger over ideas of authenticity and outsider-ness, and we’ll also graze on the big issues in the global economy. But at the outset, when we still had a sense that a clock was ticking over our lunch, we had to make...