Re:"McKinsey in a Box": The End of Strategic Consulting?
by FirmwareBurner on Monday August 11, 2025 @02:25AM
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>The role of McKinsey and co has always been reputation laundering, not actual consulting.
Reminds me of why companies choose penetration testing services/audits from some specific well known companies, but also only want to pay for the bare minimum amount of testing. They want the reputation of the label that they passed an audit from X company, they don't actually care about their security.
>McKinsey consultants are paid to say the things that corporate leadership doesn't want to say.
More like they're paid to say the things corporate leadership doesn't want to hear from its own employees. They already know it, but they just pay McK to have external confirmation, to reinforce what they already know.
Reminds me of why companies choose penetration testing services/audits from some specific well known companies, but also only want to pay for the bare minimum amount of testing. They want the reputation of the label that they passed an audit from X company, they don't actually care about their security.
>McKinsey consultants are paid to say the things that corporate leadership doesn't want to say.
More like they're paid to say the things corporate leadership doesn't want to hear from its own employees. They already know it, but they just pay McK to have external confirmation, to reinforce what they already know.