The majority of McKinsey employees are fundamentally risk-averse kids choosing a safe brand name instead of doing anything entrepreneurial. To write books about them as if these PowerPoint jockeys are doing anything more than providing political cover for executives on a prostitution billing model is beyond funny.
I wish people would stop building the McKinsey brand by falling for their own marketing BS. Experts in business don’t need sell non-scalable human labor in hourly chunks, they create successful businesses themselves.
An addictive painkiller has product market fit by default and is possibly the easiest product to sell on the planet. You don’t need evil geniuses to get the opioid epidemic, it was an inevitability given the US model.
Even the senior management have never actually done or accomplished anything other than Googling stuff and pasting it on PowerPoint slides.
Consulting firms like this are a one way street for young grads, up or out. It’s not like McKinsey is recruiting successful founders or corporate executives with actual business acumen to sell PowerPoint slides by the hour.
There is no “there” there.
I'd recommend reading the book, it is a bit of a downer though