The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business (A Business Bestseller)
Duff McDonald · ★★★★☆ · 400 pages · 2013
understanding American business
I’ve always been a bit baffled by McKinsey and it’s competitors. Companies that seem to just make money by doling out advice but not actually doing any of the actual work. I guess running my own consulting firm that also does the work I was a bit jealous of it. But in this book the author goes to point out that a consulting company made up of young people making decisions, who have no skin in the game have actually created the negative, zero-sum business world that we currently live in. This includes the excess of the Enron, the financial crisis, GM, and many more have all been linked to McKinsey in some way.
Overall a good and detailed read, but it could have used a bit of cutting maybe 50
Pages or so.