How McKinsey Has Helped Raise the Stature of Authoritarian Governments

NY Times ^ | December 15, 2018 | Walt Bogdanich and Michael Forsythe

[C19fan]

This year’s McKinsey & Company retreat in China was one to remember.

Hundreds of the company’s consultants frolicked in the desert, riding camels over sand dunes and mingling in tents linked by red carpets. Meetings took place in a cavernous banquet hall that resembled a sultan’s ornate court, with a sign overhead to capture the mood.

“I can’t keep calm, I work at McKinsey & Company,” it said.

Especially remarkable was the location: Kashgar, the ancient Silk Road city in China’s far west that is experiencing a major humanitarian crisis.

About four miles from where the McKinsey consultants discussed their work, which includes advising some of China’s most important state-owned companies, a sprawling internment camp had sprung up to hold thousands of ethnic Uighurs — part of a vast archipelago of indoctrination camps where the Chinese government has locked up as many as one million people.

[C19fan]

Finally a Communist is instituting a policy based on a saying from various Communists. McKinsey is behind a corporate initiative to install "diversity" in corporations but hey doing business with China and visiting a place whose culture is being exterminated who cares.

[phormer phrog phlyer]

I would call my experience with them singularly unimpressive.

They tended to over promise and under deliver.

Added very little value.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

Every company I was at that hired McKinsey ended up spending money, not just to poorly implement a good idea, but to poorly implement a bad idea.

They actually decreased productivity.

They are also behind the "one size fits all" tendencies in corporate culture. They beta test an idea at one company and then try and convince every other company they need that idea. That way they can generate lots of income without having to do much work after the initial rollout.

I'm sure they had a hand in all the diversity crapola, "engagement" nonsense, and six sigma silliness that is plaguing corporation across the world.