McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Downturn

Re:McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Down... by baron_harkonnen on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:01PM (#21326003)

My experience has been that the vast majority of McKinsey and BCG consultants have absolutely no real world experience. My company has been hiring these people for internal roles in droves and it's hilarious (and depressing) to watch how useless they are when they can't just leave after dropping some nice sounding but useless solution on someones desk.

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Re:McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Down... by thinkingkong on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @05:41PM (#21328759)

Yeah. But they speak a language that more people should be familiar with. I've been part of organizations where the consultants roll in and hand-wave together a plan of action with statistics and proof. It's almost impossible to up against that unless you're prepared. More people need to know how to deal with it.

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Re:McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Down... by ur-whale on Tuesday October 22, 2019 @01:23PM (#21326256)

>My experience has been that the vast majority of McKinsey and BCG consultants have absolutely no real world experience

And one of these drones currently runs Google :(

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Re:McKinsey: Half the World’s Banks Too Weak to Survive Down... by icebraining on Wednesday October 23, 2019 @07:46AM (#21333571)

Pichai worked at Google for a decade before becoming CEO, he's hardly a consultant with "absolutely no real world experience".

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