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  • The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
  • Written by: Duff McDonald
  • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
  • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (37 ratings)

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A behind-the-scenes, revelatory history of McKinsey & Company, America's most influential and controversial business consulting firm, told by one of the nation's leading financial journalists.

Founded in 1926, McKinsey & Company has become one of the world's leading management consulting firms, helping to invent American business and shaping its course for decades. Ushering in the age of American industrial dominance, McKinsey remapped the power structure in the White House, helped create the bar code, revolutionized business schools, and introduced the idea of budgeting as a management tool.

McKinsey consultants have created the corporate behaviors that shaped our world - reinventing our idea of American capitalism and exporting it across the globe.

At the same time, however, McKinsey can also be associated with a list of striking failures. Its consultants were on the scene when General Motors drove itself into the ground, and they played a critical role in building the bomb known as Enron. Yet they are rarely blamed for the failures - at least not publicly.

McKinsey employees are trusted and distrusted , loved and despised. And far from prying eyes, they are doing behind-the-scenes work for the most powerful people in the world. In The Firm, star financial journalist Duff McDonald uncovers how these high-powered, high-priced business savants have ushered in waves of structural, financial, and technological shifts to the biggest and best American organizations. With unrivaled access to company documents and current and former employees, McDonald reveals the inner workings of what just might be the most influential private organization in America.

©2013 Duff McDonald (P)2013 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Decent, not great

This book provides lots of insights although it was missing something. For a firm that was so superior there could have and should have been much more wow moments. It left me thinking there should have been more offered by the book

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A very informative recap of MicKinsey

I enjoyed the content and delivery of this book so much that I listened to it twice, one after the other. I heard facts and details the second time that eluded me the first time around. Well worth the time if you are at all influenced by the consulting industry.

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