McKinsey's self-portrait as a values-driven company is a sham, says a new book (by Jonathanaknee)
The popularity and prestige associated with consulting as a chosen profession for our best and brightest has shown a durability that's remarkable.
, by New York Times reporters Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe, consulting has avoided this fate by successfully pitching itself as a path to doing well by doing good. For instance, it was McKinsey in the 1950s who invented the brilliant business line of selling an independent justification for CEOs paying themselves hundreds of times more than their average worker. Today, that dirty work largely falls to specialized compensation consultants, but it all started with McKinsey, the book suggests.
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