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The WSJ article mentions that the CEO mapped out his plan at a cafe with a McKinsey consultant. No matter how badly this goes, sounds like McKinsey will make o
by Vaslo 3y ago
The WSJ article mentions that the CEO mapped out his plan at a cafe with a McKinsey consultant.
No matter how badly this goes, sounds like McKinsey will make out again…
- roughly 3y agoAh yes, McKinsey, notable experts in decentralized organization and anarchist decision-making practices - although I suppose they make it up as they go along with everything else, so why not this, too.
- b112 3y agoalthough I suppose they make it up as they go along Well, that sort of fits with a lack of organization.
- candiddevmike 3y agoWhat under if McKinsey will start pushing this at other orgs?
- refurb 3y agoIt's basically what tech has been doing for a while. Or at least a derivation of it. Agile, self-managed team, "retrospectives", "scrums". At least that's how it was sold to my employer when they had the same change not long ago. "This is what Google does and they are innovative. Don't you want to be innovative like Google?" Checks all the boxes a CEO wants to hear.
- MForster 3y agoThis is not at all what Google does, though.
- Voultapher 3y agoOne could also argue that Google by and large doesn't innovate, they mostly acquire the innovative stuff.
- CalChris 3y agoIt is, however, what Google tried. https://medium.com/illumination/google-once-fired-all-managers-30f73e862ff4 https://medium.com/illumination/google-once-fired-all-manage...
- al_borland 3y agoMy company just called the managers, “product owners”, and the project managers, “scrum masters”, and said we were now Agile and doing Scrum. Nothing about it was self-managed. We haven’t had a retrospective in 3 years, despite my insistence that we desperately need them.
- refurb 3y agoHuh, my company pushed the Agile/scrum/retrospective thing at the same time as talking about "fit for purpose" teams that would be formed based on need/skills, not the old structure (this team works on this only). Since specific teams were now gone, less need for managers. The idea was agile/scrum/retros was a way to manage the "fluidity".
- al_borland 3y agoMcKinsey had to pay a settlement for their role in the opioid crisis. It’s very possible this will lead to some kind of tragedy related to Bayer medications which will also find McKinsey at fault for their horrible advice.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoTheres nothing criminal about bad advice. McKinsey's problem with the opioid crisis was that they were advising Purdue to commit crimes.
- ekianjo 3y agoMcKinsey is just a group that will rationalize any decision you want to make in the first place. It's management decision laundering, by consultants.
- joezydeco 3y agoI wonder if it's the same consultant he hired into the company as the organizational coach for this shuffle.
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