The First Step-by-Step Manual for Achieving McKinsey-Style Solutions--and Success International
bestseller The McKinsey Way provided a through-the-keyhole look at McKinsey & Co. history's
most prestigious consulting firm. Now the follow-up implementation manual The McKinsey Mind
reveals the hands-on secrets behind the powerhouse firm's success--and discusses how executives
from any field or industry can use those tactics to be more proactive and successful in their
day-to-day decision-making. Structured around interviews and frontline anecdotes from former
McKinsey consultants--as well as the authors themselves McKinsey alumni--The McKinsey Mind
explores how McKinsey tools and techniques can be applied to virtually any business problem in
any setting. Immensely valuable in today's crisis-a-minute workplace it discusses: Techniques
for framing problems and designing analyses Methods for interpreting results and presenting
solutions Keys for managing teams managing clients and managing yourself The ability to think
in a rigorous structured manner--a McKinsey manner--is not a birthright. It can however be a
learned behavior. Let The McKinsey Mind show you how to approach and solve problems with the
skill of a McKinsey consultant and obtain the positive results that have been delivered to
McKinsey clients for over a century. McKinsey & Co. is renowned throughout the world for its
ability to arrive at sharp insightful analyses of its clients' situations then provide
solutions that are as ingenious as they are effective. McKinsey succeeds almost as well as
shielding its revolutionary methods from competitors' scrutiny. Now The McKinsey Mind pulls
back the curtain to reveal the ways in which McKinsey consultants consistently deliver their
magic and how those methods can be used to achieve exceptional results in companies from 10
employees to 10 000. Packed with insights and brainstorming exercises for establishing the
McKinsey mind-set this book is an in-depth guidebook for applying McKinsey methods in any
industry and organizational environment. Taking a step-by-step approach The McKinsey Mind
looks at the McKinsey mystique from every angle. Owners executives consultants and team
leaders can look to this comprehensive treatment for ways to: Follow McKinsey's MECE (mutually
exclusive collectively exhaustive) line of attack Frame business problems to make them
susceptible to rigorous fact-based analysis Use the same fact-based analysis--in conjunction
with gut instinct--to make strategic decisions Conduct meaningful interviews and effectively
summarize the content of those interviews Analyze the data to find out the so what Clearly
communicate fact-based solutions to all pertinent decision makers Capture and manage the
knowledge in any organization to maximize its value Because organizational problems rarely
exist in a vacuum The McKinsey Mind discusses these approaches and more to help you arrive at
usable and sensible solutions. It goes straight to the source--former McKinsey consultants now
in leadership positions in organizations throughout the world--to give you today's only
implementation-based solution-driven look at the celebrated McKinsey problem-solving method.
The McKinsey Mind provides a fascinating peek at the tools practices and philosophies that
have helped this much-admired firm develop generations of bright young MBAs into trusted
corporate advisors. But the book's practical down-to-earth advice is not just for consultants.
The disciplined way in which McKinsey consultants frame issues analyze problems and present
solutions offers valuable lessons for any practicing or aspiring manager.--Christopher A.
Bartlett Daewoo Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business School McKinsey and Co.
rescues the biggest companies from disaster by addressing every problem with its own mixture of
logic-driven hypothesis-tested analysis. The McKinsey Mind helps everyone learn how to think
with the same discipline and devotion to creating business success. According to the maxim
giving a man a fish may feed him for a day but teaching him to fish will feed him for a
lifetime. Paying McKinsey to solve your problem may help you for a day but learning how they
do it should help you for a lifetime.--Peter Wayner Author of Free For All: How Linux and the
Free Software Movement Undercut The High-Tech Titans The McKinsey Mind unlocks the techniques
of the world's preeminent consulting firm and presents them in a format that is easy to
understand and even easier to implement.--Dan Nagy Associate Dean The Fuqua School of
Business Duke University