Geoff Lewis (Bedrock, a technology investment firm) twitted... wanted: Mckinsey but for helping companies undo/reverse whatever Mckinsey recommended over the past thirty years. will fund.
wanted: mckinsey but for helping companies undo/reverse whatever mckinsey recommended over the past thirty years. will fund.
— Geoff Lewis (@justGLew) May 25, 2020
McKinsey now offers this service. Here's a picture from their newest pitch deck: pic.twitter.com/x1bHHKx4Zm
— CJ Wheelock (@CJ_Wheelock) May 25, 2020
“McKinsey told AT&T that cellphones would be a niche market in the year 2000 with only 900,000 subscribers. The firm’s estimations were off by 108 million.” - NYT
— Sunil 🛸👀🧢 (@sunil_hebbar) May 25, 2020
How about a fund that initiates short positions when a company starts a new McKinsey engagement.
— Steven Rhodes (@steveRx) May 25, 2020
One time a McKinsey consultant downloaded my brain and sold it to my ceo for more than I’d made in my entire career.
— Steven Rhodes (@steveRx) May 25, 2020
Who’s laughing now, Jill!? Just tanked all your clients with my ingenious idea.
I have read about companies that had to declare bankruptcy, one-two years after implementing everything Mckinsey suggested. McKinsey is what you call "No skin in the game" - people without actual entrepreneurship experience advising entrepreneurs. Funny stuff.
— Shravan Venkataraman (@theBuoyantMan) May 25, 2020
— lynn boyden (she/her) (@lrb23) May 25, 2020
McKinsey told Xerox to focus on its core business and ignore the “cute” things emerging from PARC. Said there will never be a personal PC market.
— jrgoldman (@jrgoldman) May 25, 2020
One should be careful to take advice about digitalization from an advisor that use Lotus Notes... in 2020
— Magnus Svantegård (@magnus_s) May 25, 2020
LG - took McKinsey’s advice that “smartphones are never going to become a thing” when Apple first released the iPhone.
— Korean Roommate (@koreanroommate) May 25, 2020
Most of the “strategic plans” are still sitting on shelves anyways.
— Barrett Brooks (@BarrettABrooks) May 25, 2020
— Mike (@NonGaap) May 25, 2020
hey @justGLew, what if McKinsey bids for this project too? Their org is split among 3 groups - Do, Undo and Redo :)
— Sachin Piplani (@SachinPiplani) May 25, 2020