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A fascinating account of the rise of McKinsey. If you want to know what it is about the culture of the firm that sets it apart and has made it so successful, read this book. --Liaquat Ahamed, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lords of Finance McDonald has written the definitive history of McKinsey, and through McKinsey of the entire multibillion-dollar industry that is management consulting. It's a heartbreaking tale of wasted talent. --Felix Salmon, finance blogger, Reuters In his superb examination of one of the most powerful, secretive, and least understood organizations on the planet, Duff McDonald finally solves the mystery, in elegant prose, of how McKinsey can be well known without anyone knowing anything about it. Thanks to McDonald, now we do. --William D. Cohan, bestselling author of The Last Tycoons, House of Cards, and Money and Power Timely.... A fast-paced account of a key business institution, its deeds and misdeeds. --Kirkus Reviews In this highly readable history, Duff McDonald brings us deep inside one of the smartest and most important firms doing business today - a place where no other journalist has taken us before. With his straightforward storytelling and thoughtful analysis, McDonald demystifies the secrets behind McKinsey's successes and offers concrete lessons on changing companies and practices for the better. --Jamie Dimon Duff McDonald's new book about the people who built McKinsey, the consulting firm that has quietly influenced American business for decades, explains the firm's tremendous accomplishments--and its equally stunning failures. As McDonald shows, the firm's greatest success may well be itself. This is critical reading for anyone who wants to understand how the world of business really works. --Bethany McLean, coauthor of the New York Times bestseller All the Devils Are Here [T]hrough an expert accretion of damning detail, McDonald builds a convincing case that, for better and (mostly) worse, McKinsey became the quintessential American business of the 20th century. --Bloomberg Businessweek [An] admiring book that nevertheless asks hard questions about the organization's future. --The Economist There have been other books about this American icon, but The Firm is an up-to-date, full-blown history, told with wit and clarity. --The Wall Street Journal [T]hought-provoking . . . a fascinating look behind the company's success. . . . [The Firm] chronicles McKinsey's rise but also raises an important question about it that is applicable to the entire netherworld of consultants, advisers and other corporate hangers-on: 'Are they worth it or not?' --Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times DealBook Revealing... McDonald combines a lucid chronicle of McKinsey's growth and boardroom melodramas. --Publishers Weekly

Revealing... McDonald combines a lucid chronicle of McKinsey's growth and boardroom melodramas. --Publishers Weekly

"""[T]hought-provoking . . . a fascinating look behind the company's success. . . . [The Firm] chronicles McKinsey's rise but also raises an important question about it that is applicable to the entire netherworld of consultants, advisers and other corporate hangers-on: 'Are they worth it or not?'"""

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A contributing editor at The New York Observer, Duff McDonald has also written for Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, New York magazine, Fortune, and Esquire, among other publications.

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