ATTACK on McKinsey: Ex-McKinsey reacts to @moreperfectunion roasting the #1 consulting firm

It has just happened again: The US Initiative @moreperfectunion delivers a scathing attack on McKinsey & Company and its alleged wrongdoings. In the reportage, investigative journalist Gabriella Spielberg leads through 10 well-known McKinsey scandals, for which the world’s leading management consulting firm has already been exposed in the McKinsey scandal book “When McKinsey Comes To Town” and by John Oliver in his famous "Last Week Tonight" edition on McKinsey. For this reportage, More Perfect Union’s reporter interviews the “When McKinsey Comes To Town” author Michael Forsythe as well as whistleblower and ex-McKinsey consultant Garrison Lovely.

I find that this documentary again is one-sided, so that I add my perspective based on my five working years at McKinsey & Company and my experience as an independent management adviser. I estimate the number of consultings project delivers in 2024 and contrast it with McKinsey’s scandal projects, address More Perfect Union’s question what consultants actually do and reveal McKinsey’s true actions in-between cost-cutting and pro bono projects. I also address in my consulting satire what would happen if McKinsey got banned, and I comment on Garrison Lovely’s whistleblower reports in the two McKinsey whistleblower articles by the Nation (“Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower”) and in Jacobin (“McKinsey Is Ultraprestigious. It’s Also a Blight on the World”).

Lastly, in this reaction video to More Perfect Union’s blast at McKinsey, I conclude what this means for your business and consulting careers.

00:00 Attack on McKinsey by More Perfect Union
01:03 My (past) bonds with McKinsey
02:42 Mike Forsythe & Garrison Lovely
03:49 McKinsey scandals vs reality
07:02 What does McKinsey (and consultants) do?
07:52 McKinsey as cost-cutters
10:44 Pro bono consulting projects
12:57 Confidentiality & responsibility
14:10 The exorcist: McKinsey vs BCG vs Bain
15:42 Should you work for McKinsey?
18:05 McKinsey - respond yourself!

#McKinsey #LastWeekTonight #JohnOliver

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🎉 SHOW NOTES AND ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

1.) This video is a reaction to More Perfect Union’s video on McKinsey:

2.) Garrison Lovely’s McKinsey whistleblower article in The Nation (“Confessions of a McKinsey Whistleblower”):

3.) Garrison Lovely’s McKinsey whistleblower article in Jacobin (“McKinsey Is Ultraprestigious. It’s Also a Blight on the World”):

4.) McKinsey’s famous CO2 abatement curve:

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[redemptionneeded]

Bro - you are definitely biased - what McKinsey has done to the world and people is definitely horrible

[pmunizxc]

I appreciate the nuance you provide in this video. I don't know if I agree with all of your points, but I genuinely respect how you lay out your perspective. If your goal was to persuade an audience to be more mindful when criticizing McKinsey or consulting in general -- you've succeeded, with me at least. Thank you for the time you spent putting this together. YT needs more channels like yours.

[vicentcaselles]

Your section about pro bono work is so dumb. The motivations behind it re the actual workers is not questioned in MPU's video, probably the consultants working with the gov of Illinois actually wanted to help and as you correctly pointed out, they probably weren't at McKinsey after 20 years. However, the investors for the company actually still owned the company and it's their intentions that I believe the video you are reacting to is actually questioning.