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The Cliches of Consulting vs The Reality

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Think of Lou Gerstner who went from McKinsey to American Express, and Jeff Skillings who went from The Firm to Enron, a poster child McKinsey could point to (and bill) when wooing prospective clients before Skilling’s fall from grace in 2001. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? The list goes on.

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A Brief History of Strategy Consulting: 100 years from Frederick Taylor to the “Next New Normal”

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So in the last 1800s, Frederick Taylor and several others in the US started exploring new ways to think about running a business. Part of the toolkit McKinsey developed was a 30-page document called the “General Survey Outline” (GSO) and it stood out for how it was different than Taylor’s “how-to” approach. billion to $3.4