Day in the life of a McKinsey consultant: In the morning you get a bunch of new grads and have them cook up a presentation about renewable energy and then present it to the government of french guinea. You dont know what you are talking about, so you make shit up on the go, just some classic improv. At noon you help Jacob Zuma to squeeze all the money out of their national infrastructure companies. After dinner (obviously a business expense) you do coke and help companies to break some international sanctions and take some client to a lap dancing bar (also business expense). After 10 years of doing this you have an extensional crisis and decide to start a startup where you manage climate projects and sell carbon credits.
@andilemathebula8734
12 күн бұрын
Are you South African?
@Dr.Empty1
9 күн бұрын
No one is reading but liked
@wafikojulio9028
12 күн бұрын
what they ACTUALLY do is get paid to do nothing or recommend a layoff would be the general sentiment
@harrison6082
10 күн бұрын
It's crazy to me that people still believe this company can help them. In the 1980s during their heyday when American companies were just run a lot worse, they could help a lot. But now most big American companies are at about the same level as they are.
@joeyoest1105
12 күн бұрын
The issue is that consultants’ incentive structures are rarely aligned with the interests of the business. Their goal is either to say what management wants them to say in order to justify what management had already decided to do before they were hired, and/or it’s to convince the company to hire them again for more consulting work. There do seem to be some consultants that focus on long-term impactful service to business, but good luck telling the good ones from the goofballs.
@academyofuselessideas
14 күн бұрын
There is a whole Last week tonight episode about McKinsey which might answer your question. But long story short, McKinsey gives an excuse to whoever hires them to make lousy and unethical decisions. I am sure they have some smart people there doing some interesting stuff, but recruitment events tend to be more for advertisement and brand recognition than to actually tell you what companies do
@AnzenKodo
13 күн бұрын
it feel like every company nowadays does this.
@minecraftteddy99
14 күн бұрын
My colleague who is an engineer has noticed that we mathematicians tend to use a lot of buzz words such as linear operators, hilbert spaces, semigroup theory, evolution equation, topology and so on. Seems like every field has their own lingo
@lion_brine_ninja6407
14 күн бұрын
it sucks when people use jargon specifically to make people think they are dumb and the speaker is smart
@academyofuselessideas
14 күн бұрын
@@lion_brine_ninja6407 @minecraftteddy99 agreed!
@joeyoest1105
12 күн бұрын
But mathematicians’ lingo is simply a wrapper for a more detailed concept. If you ask a mathematician “what do you mean by Linear Operator”, they will can give you an extremely precise answer. For many of these corporate buzzwords, when you ask “what do you mean by [buzzword]”, all you get is either more buzzwords (which also cannot be suitably defined) or a lot of beating around the bush. Jargon can serve to simplify communication, that’s when it works very well. It can serve as a shibboleth - it works pretty well there. It can also serve to mislead or mask what’s truly going on, and that’s what he’s complaining about here.
@academyofuselessideas
12 күн бұрын
@@joeyoest1105 great reflections!
@davidebic
10 күн бұрын
All the McKinsey employees do is suggest to hire more McKinsey employees in every business. There's a thing called the exponential McKinsey problem due to this lol.
@musicballfun
13 күн бұрын
i worked with ex mckinsey consultants. the best of them are amazing, these oversimplifications might make you feel good because you're ignoring the complexity of reality...whatever helps you sleep at night
@zeegy99
13 күн бұрын
I’d hope the best are amazing
@jay1373
13 күн бұрын
this guy just got his ego rattled by a video with less than 1000 views?
@aitheignis
12 күн бұрын
kek. That is what exactly McKinsey do. Oversimplification.
@primelawliet
9 күн бұрын
bro thought he shot a blockbuster movie
@joefromfortniteepic
13 күн бұрын
all i knows is that they make hella racks
@zeegy99
13 күн бұрын
down for some tendies
@warriordx5520
10 күн бұрын
Spend maximum amount of effort to make the most buzz that makes an impact on the majority of the people where most of the company's value comes from (clearly not you since you're smarter than average so obv not the target audience) they don't ever do technical things for PR they just show their past results so the talks are basically propaganda Then when it's down to real business they will make the overworked interns do everything professionally and actually deliver on their promise Smart people already know what mckinsey is capable of and if that's useful for them or not so they don't actually give a shit what they say in public the public bit is just a formality among the competition at this point to make sure they exist in the public's brains basically the last bits in their long checklist The people there are very rich for a reason they maximize influence on the stupid majority to spread their name so it can easily reach the smart minority's doorsteps and it works As sun tzu once said "If your enemy looks like a coke addict focus on their strategy not on how they look"
@evandrofilipe1526
14 күн бұрын
Consultancy jobs just suck tbh, it's like (they employed us, so were gonna employ you)
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