Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent College Graduate Contractor

Re:Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent Colleg... by iudqnolq on Thursday December 05, 2019 @06:30PM (#21717823)

Thanks for the clarification. I think my mistake was interpreting what you said as the perspective of a hypothetical company and thus assuming you meant a peer-level company. It seems in general McKinsey is rather targeted at the C-Level.

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Re:Why Taxpayers Pay McKinsey $3M a Year for a Recent Colleg... by ethbro on Friday December 06, 2019 @07:13AM (#21721108)

It's typically targeted at someone of sufficient seniority that the cost of McKinsey is negligible when compared to the cost of doing the wrong / less optimal thing.

Or, in other words, if a manager makes a wrong decision then it costs the company $x00,000. If an SVP or C-level screws up, it costs the company $x0,000,000+.

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