"I soon learned that [[McKinsey]]’s basic business proposition is straightforward. **For a very large sum of money per month, companies can hire a McKinsey team to solve problems too thorny to be solved by the folks who are already working on them**. At the end of this “engagement,” as it was called in the firm, we were supposed to produce a report that was dramatically more insightful than anything they could have generated in-house." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[management-consulting]], [[not-right-but-rarely-stupid]], [[defensive-decision-making]] **Source** -- [[20241030 - B - Grit]]