McKinsey suffers from collective self-delusion

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McKinsey’s partners see themselves as missionaries. Yet they are also mercenaries— “guns for hire”

ONE OF THE best explanations for the triumph of a “solution shop” like McKinsey was co-authored by the late Clayton Christensen of Harvard Business School in 2013. When hiring a management-consulting firm, he said, clients do not know what they are getting in advance, because they are looking for knowledge that they themselves lack. They cannot measure the results, either, because outside factors, such as the quality of execution, influence the outcome of the consultant’s recommendations.

The Byzantine voting system that has done away with Mr Sneader has not yet determined which of his two potential successors will replace him. Nor is it clear for what precisely the 54-year-old Scot is paying the price.

At heart, they stem from a simple delusion. Its partners see themselves as missionaries. Yet they are also mercenaries— “guns for hire”, as Duff McDonald, a biographer of the firm, calls them. They have a mantra that puts their clients’ interests above their own, and a belief, drawn from the firm’s pristine heritage, that no one knows better how to distinguish between right and wrong.

More people and more wealth inevitably make oversight more important. Still, McKinsey continues to think of itself as a partnership built on trust, not one that requires centralised command and control. Its voting system resembles an elite Athenian democracy. The more trouble it is in, the more it needs a Spartan leader, backed by a strong risk-control apparatus, to keep it on the straight and narrow.

 

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LMAO LOOKING LIKE MY OLD VICE PRINCIPAL TWIN TOO

The employees of the companies that hire them definitely see them as the latter

Just realising this now ... I've seen the collateral damage of their smug delusion in orgs I work with. I started calling the way they operate 'strip mining the soul' of orgs.

That's Buttigiegs old employer

sounds like they're the type of people who enjoy the smell of their own farts

wow

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