Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower
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Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower
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#2> In the end, the city spent $27.5 million on McKinsey’s services, with precious little to show for it. McKinsey, on the other hand, collected its money and moved right along.
Speechless.
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#3> A senior partner once told a writer, “There is no institution on the planet that has more integrity than McKinsey"
Perhaps a well meaning individual who wanted to make it entirely clear that whatever they said on the company's behalf should not be taken even half way seriously ?
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#4> In the end, the city spent $27.5 million on McKinsey’s services, with precious little to show for it. McKinsey, on the other hand, collected its money and moved right along. Speechless.
All comes down to incentives. No doubt the person who made that decision would have got a lot more pushback if they'd wanted to spend $3 million hiring or developing internal expertise.
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#5> In the end, the city spent $27.5 million on McKinsey’s services, with precious little to show for it. McKinsey, on the other hand, collected its money and moved right along. Speechless.
McKinsey wants you to believe they can measure the productivity of SWEs.
Measure their productivity and they vehemently deny it and will sick lawyers on you. In the land of free speech.
The US is run by people with mafia mentality.
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#6> In the end, the city spent $27.5 million on McKinsey’s services, with precious little to show for it. McKinsey, on the other hand, collected its money and moved right along. Speechless.
All comes down to incentives. No doubt the person who made that decision would have got a lot more pushback if they'd wanted to spend $3 million hiring or developing internal expertise.
The old “nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft” argument.
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#7This article wasn't what I was expecting. His complaints are primarily about ICE. His work was to put together a hiring plan to hire more ICE agents, but that was never actually put into place.
He pulls some examples of poor McKinsey behavior from other stories that he wasn't part of, but I'm not seeing a whole lot of McKinsey whistleblowing in this article.
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#8> In the end, the city spent $27.5 million on McKinsey’s services, with precious little to show for it. McKinsey, on the other hand, collected its money and moved right along. Speechless.
McKinsey wants you to believe they can measure the productivity of SWEs. Measure their productivity and they vehemently deny it and will sick lawyers on you. In the land of free speech. The US is run by people with mafia mentality.
It's not the US, it's in any system that control is sought after by those that seek power. This is why democratising power is so important, regardless of system. Those seeking power will always find methods aligned with the system to do so. In an advanced capitalist society, it's methods like McKinsey, in a kleptocracy, it's whoever is the biggest crime boss.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
McKinsey wants you to believe they can measure the productivity of SWEs. Measure their productivity and they vehemently deny it and will sick lawyers on you. In the land of free speech. The US is run by people with mafia mentality.
It's not the US, it's in any system that control is sought after by those that seek power. This is why democratising power is so important, regardless of system. Those seeking power will always find methods aligned with the system to do so. In an advanced capitalist society, it's methods like McKinsey, in a kleptocracy, it's whoever is the biggest crime boss.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
McKinsey wants you to believe they can measure the productivity of SWEs. Measure their productivity and they vehemently deny it and will sick lawyers on you. In the land of free speech. The US is run by people with mafia mentality.
It's not the US, it's in any system that control is sought after by those that seek power. This is why democratising power is so important, regardless of system. Those seeking power will always find methods aligned with the system to do so. In an advanced capitalist society, it's methods like McKinsey, in a kleptocracy, it's whoever is the biggest crime boss.
> This is why democratising power is so important, regardless of system.
What makes you think that some form of democracy will help with whatever you diagnose here?