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

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Here is McDonald again (emphasis mine): “The emphasis in the GSO was more on why managers did things, as opposed to how they did them. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? As Walter Kiechel wrttes, “by the early 1980s, the Bain formula was triumphant, at least in the eyes of other strategy consultants.”.