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It's a little bit like intent laundering, isn't it.

• boh 5y ago
  Yes that's why they hire them. Often managers hire McKinsey to legitimize their own ideas and then use them as scapegoats if things go sideways. That's one of their main selling points.
• jacobr1 5y ago
  Even in the benign case it usually intent laundering. Consultants are often brought in to deal with organizational inability to do something that a substantial chunk of the employees already knows they need to do. It is one of the reasons they can be successful hiring people straight from school and putting them on big accounts. The basic formula for many of these jobs is to interview employees, figure out the way forward that the sponsoring exec really wanted anyway in the form a synthesis of what the employees suggested, add some data and pretty graphs to a report, and then lend the idea external credibility (and future blamability if it fails).