McKinsey Exists Because CEOs Are Cowards
We don’t blame Pete Buttigieg for anything he may have done while in their employ, we blame the people who hired the firm in the first place
And for that same reason we take exception to a rather lengthy piece from the Atlantic entitled: “How McKinsey Destroyed the Middle Class”. Because no: McKinsey, the consulting firm that’s in the employ of 90 of the world’s 100 largest corporations didn’t destroy the middle class. CEOs did it themselves. Willingly. Willfully. Often with no obvious objective other than accelerating their ascent into the high reaches of the 1%.
McKinsey, in exchange for huge fees, was gladly willing to take the blame and be the scapegoat for downsizing and finding efficiencies, which both really most of the time mean mass firings. Of course McKinsey can choose who they work for, and what they do for them, and they definitely made some questionable decisions and choices. But blaming McKinsey for the decline of the middle class in this country is like blaming the executioner for Anne Boleyn’s death, not King Henry.
We’ve worked in a number of places where we were told McKinsey was being brought in to “look at things”. We always knew even before they set foot in the door that would mean layoffs. Also, even before…
