Posted on 12/17/2018 9:31:07 AM PST by C19fan
This years McKinsey & Company retreat in China was one to remember.
Hundreds of the companys 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 sultans ornate court, with a sign overhead to capture the mood.
I cant keep calm, I work at McKinsey & Company, it said.
Especially remarkable was the location: Kashgar, the ancient Silk Road city in Chinas 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 Chinas 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.
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I would call my experience with them singularly unimpressive.
They tended to over promise and under deliver.
Added very little value.
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.
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