When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

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Last update: 07-19-2024


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jeff hooke
5.0 out of 5 stars simply outstanding
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2024
a blue chip consultant that is clearly not so blue chip....their work is very repetitive from client to client it seems
Amazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 stars Discover the damage one company can do to everything it touches.
Reviewed in the United States on April 7, 2024
Important to know this history, and rethink "consultants."
A. Erdengiz
5.0 out of 5 stars An eye opener!
Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2022
This book is extremely well researched, well documented and well written. It reads almost like a thriller. I never thought much of consulting firms to begin with. I dealt with a few and thought their value added was marginal. They are useful when executives at a company are looking for a scapegoat to blame when they shut down business units, cut costs, lay off big numbers of people, etc. The book caught my attention because there has been some noise in France about the French government paying millions of euros to McKinsey to help with the Covid vaccination campaign. Things got inflamed even more when it was revealed that McKinsey didn't pay any income taxes in France. I was also shocked to find out that they played a major role in helping Purdue Pharma and the Sacklers to boost OxyContin sales. I had watched Dopesick and there was no mention of McKinsey. In short, this is a must read if you are interested in business and government or simply care about policy.
Zaid
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting read, but...
Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2024
It's a very good insight into management consultancies in general and McKinsey in particular. Deducted the first star because of the writing style, which makes reading the book a bit tedious . Deducted the second star for the political bias that made it's way into this important book, albeit in a subtle way.
desertdan
5.0 out of 5 stars An expose which probably barely scratches the surface
Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2022
My experiences with McKinsey over the past two years make every word I've read in the first seven chapters of this book so far that much more believable. The influence and resultant damage McKinsey have caused for decades is astounding. The death of hundreds of thousands of individuals, of course, being the most heinous.

I couldn't put this book down last night. The chapter about ICE and how McKinsey consultants were turning over so quickly on the assignment that the ICE team had to keep teaching new 20-something just-out-of-college consultants the basics is exactly what I had to do when McKinsey consulted with my team. The third time around I finally had to tell the managing partner McKinsey needed to bring their consultants up to speed, not me.

I hope this book, the ongoing investigative reporting, and the congressional investigations underway, give leaders pause in making future decisions whether to engage McKinsey as a consultancy, and give graduates pause in choosing to start their career with a company whose actions don't align with their purported values.

Thank you Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe for giving the world this information, and for continuing to expose the actions and behaviors of McKinsey.
Stranger in Paradise
4.0 out of 5 stars The Evil of the McKinsey Firm
Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2022
This books bares all on the evil of the McKinsey Consulting Firm. When Paul Pressler brought them to Disneyland where McKinsey fired many long time employees and cut back on safety inspections leading to many deaths in the park. Did McKinsey get in trouble? Nope. READ THIS BOOK.
Sue
5.0 out of 5 stars EVERYONE needs to read this book!
Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2024
I can't stress enough that everyone and I mean EVERYONE, needs to read this book and see just what is going on with this "management company", McKinsey. It's extremely alarming how they are manipulating just about every entity they get their hands on, and NOT in a good way! PLEASE READ!!!
ricktulsky
5.0 out of 5 stars Need to be outraged? This book will do the trick
Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2022
I can't remember the last time a book made my blood boil the way this book did. Most people know little if nothing about McKinsey, but it turns out the management consultants have done much to injure our world. They have been hired by tobacco companies, by the makers of Oxycontin, by major polluters to get advice on how to make more profit. They have aided China and Saudi Arabia in strengthening their power, and helped England dismantle its national health care. They have been a key player in creating the ridiculous divide between worker salaries and executive compensation. And outrageously, they advise drug companies at the same time they work for the FDA, the very agency that regulates them. Do I need to go on? Each chapter will make you madder. And largely about things that are completely behind the curtain before this book.. Kudos to Bogdanich and Forsythe.

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