A behind-the-scenes, revelatory history of McKinsey & Co., America’s most influential and controversial business consulting firm, told by one of the nation’s leading financial journalists.

It ranks among the unquestioned laws of American big business over the last half century: If you want to be taken seriously, you hire McKinsey & Company.

FOUNDED IN 1926, McKINSEY CAN LAY CLAIM to the following partial list of accomplishments: its consultants have ushered in waves of structural, financial, and technological change to the nation’s best organizations; they remapped the power structure within the White House; they even revo­lutionized business schools. In this book, star financial journalist Duff McDonald shows just how, in becoming an indispensable part of decision making at the highest levels, McKinsey has done nothing less than set the course of American capitalism.

But he also answers the question that’s on the mind of anyone who has ever heard the word McKinsey: Are they worth it? After all, just as McKinsey can be shown to have helped invent most of the tools of modern management, the company was also involved with a number of striking failures. Its consultants were on the scene when General Motors drove itself into the ground, and they were Kmart’s advisers when the retailer tumbled into disarray. They played a critical role in building the bomb known as Enron.

麦肯锡公司是美国最具影响力和争议性的商业咨询公司，由美国著名财经记者之一讲述其幕后的启示性历史。

在过去的半个世纪里，它是美国大企业毋庸置疑的法律之一。如果你想被认真对待，你就雇用麦肯锡公司。

麦肯锡公司成立于1926年，它可以宣称有以下部分成就：它的顾问为美国最好的组织带来了结构、财务和技术变革的浪潮；他们重新规划了白宫的权力结构；他们甚至彻底改变了商学院。在这本书中，明星财经记者达夫-麦克唐纳展示了麦肯锡在成为最高层决策不可或缺的一部分时，是如何做到不惜为美国资本主义设定路线的。

但他也回答了所有听过麦肯锡这个词的人心中的疑问：他们值得吗？毕竟，正如麦肯锡可以被证明帮助发明了现代管理的大部分工具一样，该公司也参与了一些引人注目的失败。当通用汽车公司把自己逼入绝境时，麦肯锡的顾问就在现场；当凯马特零售商陷入混乱时，他们是凯马特的顾问。他们在制造 "安然 "这个炸弹中发挥了关键作用。

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