McKinsey PEI - Drive vs Growth

Question

For McK PEI, what’s the real difference between Drive and Growth?

Both seem to test how you overcome challenges, and with the latest wording they feel very similar to me.

From the website:

Drive: Working hard to achieve excellence in particularly tough circumstances
Growth: Rapidly learning something new and adapting to tackle a challenging situation

Follow-ups:

What specifically differentiates a strong Drive story from a strong Growth story?
What are interviewers actually listening for that makes one score high and the other not?

Answer 1

They feel similar because both involve hard situations

Drive
What we look for:

Signal:

Litmus test:

Growth
What we look for:

Signal:

Litmus test:

Why candidates get downgraded

Bottom line:

Answer 2

Hey there,

Here are some notes that might help:

Drive: You can think of Drive as more of an entrepreneurship story, a story about something you drove and the challenges you went through when doing that (e.g., when you started/led a new initiative/project)
Growth: This is more about a time when you have to change yourself (i.e., grow) to adapt to new circumstances (e.g., you were suddenly put in a new role you were not familiar with and had to quickly adapt, something suddenly changed in your life/job and you had to learn new skills to adapt to that change)

Best,

Maria