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The Cliches of Consulting vs The Reality

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Think of Lou Gerstner who went from McKinsey to American Express, and Jeff Skillings who went from The Firm to Enron, a poster child McKinsey could point to (and bill) when wooing prospective clients before Skilling’s fall from grace in 2001. Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving? The list goes on.

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A Brief History of Strategy Consulting: 100 years from Frederick Taylor to the “Next New Normal”

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During the period of his leadership, the firm cemented its position as the clear #1 : Between 1994 when he was first elected and 2001, in his third term, the Firm more than doubled its number of consultants (3,300 to 7,700), partners (425 to 891), and annual revenues ($1.5 Do you have a toolkit for business problem solving?