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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

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What are the career paths and titles at McKinsey, Bain, and Boston Consulting Group?

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As the scale and ambition of these firms increased, they needed more people to do the work and needed to develop internal pipelines of future partners. In addition to client work, consultants are pressured to develop a “spike” or topic expertise where they can become a go-to person for many clients in the future.

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Famous Consulting Frameworks: The Rule of Three and Four – Bruce Henderson (1976)

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Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? This course teaches you how to synthesize information into compelling insights, structure your information in ways that help you solve problems, and develop presentations that resonate at the C-Level.