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Recently worked under an ex-McKinsey consultant. Say what you want about their solutions but they know how to talk to execs and boards and sell them on solutio
by quartesixte 3y ago
Recently worked under an ex-McKinsey consultant.
Say what you want about their solutions but they know how to talk to execs and boards and sell them on solutions.
Eye-opening rotation underneath them — my PowerPoint decks are so good now
- walterbell 3y agoGene Zelazny, McKinsey Communications Director, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797259 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39797259
- logtempo 3y agoAnd that's the force and the weakness of McKinsey (and other commercials guys): they sell something, from good things to craps. They sell it no matter what is the outcome. When they sell a good thing, everything is good. When they sell a bad thing, it can put down a whole healthcare system (in my country, consulting companies admitted that hospitals are not industries and they did more harm than good with their plans), it can let survive a bad startup where millions of public money is invested, etc.