I've been at companies that hired McKinsey to tell them what to do. In each case it was a spectacular failure. But also in each case, the executives and leade

I've been at companies that hired McKinsey to tell them what to do. In each case it was a spectacular failure. But also in each case, the executives and leadership who chose to hire and listen to McKinsey went onward and upward in their careers after those spectacular failures. As others are saying here, they really aren't in the advice business. They're in the scapegoat business.