I worked for McKinsey many years ago -- NOT as a consultant. My takeaway was that they were a cult. Nothing was so weird to me as to see them spin out corporate cultures, mind control, total mind fuckery where the bullshit never stopped, which is why I guessed that the coof thing was all a McKinsey-designed mirage. I believe they are quite capable at doing something like that.
Excellent piece. In France we had McKinseygate and their embedding in the various departments including that of health prior to the 'pandemie'... Spook filled scumbag company responsible for enforcing the rollout of the product of their corporate chums.
I had one interaction with McKinsey while working as house counsel at a large utility company. The company was actively promoting continuous improvement using the Toyota Method. I recall sitting through several mandatory McKinsey-sponsored team building meetings involving power point presentations and a lot of time dedicated to finding better ways to use filing cabinets. The company spent a lot of money and time for the privilege of rubbing shoulders with young Penn and Harvard grads but very little of substance resulting from the effort.
Btw, Yuri, years ago, I’ve read your Wikipedia profile, which ended abruptly. It left me puzzled. Did you go into a witness protection program? Got kidnapped by KGB or worse?
Would you be willing to tell us, as Paul Harvey would put it, “ The rest of the story”?
McKinsey, the Zombie Octopus - love the metaphor! I am ashamed to admit that I interviewed with them after grad school. My mother was mortified that I didn’t become a professor, but instead sold out and went to Wall Street to work for a lesser Vampire Squidling, CSFP.
Poor choice of video to choose one defining Trump's Immigration Policy a scandal...WHEN IT WAS AND REMAINS THE MOST SANE FOR DECADES.
Trump's PROTECTIONIST POLICY OF IMMIGRATION removing reward for ILLEGAL INSURGENCY/OCCUPATION OF THE U.S. was SANITY and a Company providing the numbers and Behavioral Psych Operationalization for its SOP was humane...
The CURRENT OUTRAGEOUS INSANITY OF INSURGENCY AND ILLEGAL OCCUPTION PAYED FOR OUT OF LAUNDERED TAXPAYER $$$ COVERING THE COST OF THE JOURNEY AND A PROMISED FREE LIFE IS SO SCREWED; IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND how any citizen in this country is lucid.
I love how to this day consultants can't give you a straight answer on what they actually contribute.
It's almost condescension shrouded in the latest corporate speak.
I like the statement on the sign at the equality lounge at Davos—‘The place for conscious leaders’. Does that mean you have to be awake to get in?
I worked for McKinsey many years ago -- NOT as a consultant. My takeaway was that they were a cult. Nothing was so weird to me as to see them spin out corporate cultures, mind control, total mind fuckery where the bullshit never stopped, which is why I guessed that the coof thing was all a McKinsey-designed mirage. I believe they are quite capable at doing something like that.
Excellent piece. In France we had McKinseygate and their embedding in the various departments including that of health prior to the 'pandemie'... Spook filled scumbag company responsible for enforcing the rollout of the product of their corporate chums.
They trademarked “Equality Lounge” 🙄🤡💩
Good read on similar theme, credit to Niccolo Soldo (Fisted by Foucault) for mentioning in his stack:
https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2023/04/28/management-consultants-as-soviet-apparatchiks/
I had one interaction with McKinsey while working as house counsel at a large utility company. The company was actively promoting continuous improvement using the Toyota Method. I recall sitting through several mandatory McKinsey-sponsored team building meetings involving power point presentations and a lot of time dedicated to finding better ways to use filing cabinets. The company spent a lot of money and time for the privilege of rubbing shoulders with young Penn and Harvard grads but very little of substance resulting from the effort.
Model - “So what do you do?”
Bateman - “I’m into murders and executions mostly.”
Model - "Do you like it?"
Bateman - "It depends. Why?"
Model - "Because most guys I know, who work with mergers and acquisitions, really don't like it."
Bateman while smirking - "So, where do you workout?"
Love it
Btw, Yuri, years ago, I’ve read your Wikipedia profile, which ended abruptly. It left me puzzled. Did you go into a witness protection program? Got kidnapped by KGB or worse?
Would you be willing to tell us, as Paul Harvey would put it, “ The rest of the story”?
Surprised, Yuri, you forgot another McKinsey alum Eric Schmidt, who first removed No from “Do No Evil.” Then purchased citizenship of Cypress…
What does he know that we don’t??
Great writing, quite enjoyable. Thanks!
Say what you want about Capitalism, but the supermarkets are fully stocked, and they are a shitload of nice houses everywhere.
OMG Yuri I learned a LOT from this one. And that (rap?) video with bankers vs. consultants literally MADE my day. Hilarious!
McKinsey, the Zombie Octopus - love the metaphor! I am ashamed to admit that I interviewed with them after grad school. My mother was mortified that I didn’t become a professor, but instead sold out and went to Wall Street to work for a lesser Vampire Squidling, CSFP.
Poor choice of video to choose one defining Trump's Immigration Policy a scandal...WHEN IT WAS AND REMAINS THE MOST SANE FOR DECADES.
Trump's PROTECTIONIST POLICY OF IMMIGRATION removing reward for ILLEGAL INSURGENCY/OCCUPATION OF THE U.S. was SANITY and a Company providing the numbers and Behavioral Psych Operationalization for its SOP was humane...
The CURRENT OUTRAGEOUS INSANITY OF INSURGENCY AND ILLEGAL OCCUPTION PAYED FOR OUT OF LAUNDERED TAXPAYER $$$ COVERING THE COST OF THE JOURNEY AND A PROMISED FREE LIFE IS SO SCREWED; IT'S IMPOSSIBLE TO UNDERSTAND how any citizen in this country is lucid.