“There are two common narratives about McKinsey. The first imagines the firm as some sort of hallowed place where future leaders go to test their mettle and learn the ways of the Force. Books like The McKinsey Way and The Lords of Strategy depict McKinsey consultants as heroes who rescue moribund businesses. The second narrative depicts McKinsey as a villain, driven primarily by greed. In their 2022 book When McKinsey Comes to Town, the journalists Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe made the case that the firm is to blame for—or at least complicit in—all sorts of modern-day evils: skyrocketing CEO pay, the Great Recession, the opioid crisis, the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, China’s surveillance state, even the Houston Astros’ cheating scandal.

The truth is that McKinsey is a quintessential institution of the post-World War II era. As such, the firm reflects all the successes of that era, as well as its blind spots, moral failings, and excesses. McKinsey was a key contributor to—and beneficiary of—the economic forces of globalization and financialization, trends that raised living standards around the world. But those same trends have been culturally destructive and politically destabilizing, which is why they are now often seen in a negative light by many on both the right and the left.“

https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-mckinsey-century/

#McKinsey #Consultancies #Globalization #Neoliberalism

The McKinsey Century

My early twenties played out like a demented mash-up of Wall Street and Caddyshack.

Compact

Apparently, the Metaverse is this close to being shut down...

So, to celebrate, this link from four years ago by McKinsey:

https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/growth-marketing-and-sales/our-insights/value-creation-in-the-metaverse

#Metaverse #McKinsey

Beim Thema #Volkswagen hört sich #McKinsey fast schon wie McKinski an.

"Cybersécurité : En deux heures, un agent IA pirate le chatbot interne de McKinsey et accède à des millions de messages"

#CyberSécurité #McKinsey #AgentIA #IAGen #GenAI Exemple parmi d'autres de l'automatisation et l'industrialisation des cyberattaques.

https://www.usine-digitale.fr/cybersecurite/cybersecurite-en-deux-heures-un-agent-ia-pirate-le-chatbot-interne-de-mckinsey-et-accede-a-des-millions-de-messages.ZUOVZUBWFNGKFPADXR4EHIYMDI.html

#Volkswagen darf zittern - sind die "Berater" aka. "Experten" von #McKinsey doch berühmt dafür, schön die Axt anzulegen ohne Rücksicht auf irgendwas oder irgendjemanden.

Da stehen #Wolfsburg und vor allem den Arbeitnehmern harte Zeiten bevor...

Volkswagen unter Druck: Radikale Krisenpläne im Konzern.

Beim deutschen Autoriesen Volkswagen laufen derzeit umfangreiche Beratungen über die Zukunft des Unternehmens. Hintergrund ist eine schwierige wirtschaftliche Lage, die den Konzern zu drastischen Maßnahmen zwingt.

https://t1p.de/6p0hw

#Volkswagen #VW #Autoindustrie #McKinsey #BCG #OliverBlume #Autobranche #WirtschaftDeutschland #Werksschließungen #EAuto #Industriekrise

Wow. #Volkswagen hat sich wohl den Verbrecherverein #McKinsey ins Büro geholt. Das wird der Anfang vom Ende von VW werden...