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  <title><![CDATA[The McKinsey Way]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;i&gt;The McKinsey Way&lt;/i&gt;, by former McKinsey &amp; Company associate Ethan M. Rasiel, provides a through-the-keyhole perspective on the way this worldwide consulting institution approaches--and solves--the myriad professional problems encountered by its high-powered clientele. His goal, Rasiel writes, is simple: to communicate &quot;new and useful skills to everyone who wants to be more useful in their business.&quot; He then does so by explaining the highly structured, fact-based proprietary methodology that McKinseyites are taught to employ with their Fortune 100 clients, complete with details on the entire process from first considering the basic situation at hand through finally selling a solution to the appropriate powers that be.&lt;p&gt;  All of the critical steps (assembling a team, managing a hierarchy, doing research, conducting interviews, brainstorming) are broken down into specific actions and fleshed out with applicable examples that Rasiel has gathered through interviews with dozens of other former McKinsey employees. The concluding sections on surviving the mythically grueling pace at the organization, known simply to insiders as &quot;the Firm,&quot; are designed to help readers successfully tackle the similar challenges and obstacles they regularly face in their own work environments. &lt;i&gt;--Howard Rothman&lt;/i&gt;</default_description>
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  <read_at>Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is basically the Bible at my job for managers.  I read it because I've been craving some sort of business/management/leadership advice, and work wasn't filling the craving all the way.<br/><br/>The McKinsey Way tells about the specific methods McKinsey Consulting uses when solving business pr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58866379">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Apr 07 05:04:30 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a good book explaining how McKinsey people think, it's MACE [Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive:]. I don't care what other reviewers are saying, I think the author does his job well. Based from his struggle and hard work in one of McKinsey's office, he has the right to say &quot;Hid...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51790024">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting insight into life as a consultant at McKinsey.  Read more as if it were a how-to manual for consultants entering McKinsey than a very practical methodology of applying McKinsey principles to your business.  Would categorize it as a career guide more than a management book.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[McKinsey waits for the phone to ring. It makes sure it will hapen withou making any advertsing. MECE, mutually exclusive, collectively exhausting. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Management Consultants Bible...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Awesome Management Guide]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Good business and consulting advice, as expected.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is about brilliant simplicity - they've been consulting for nearly 100 years. The concepts are simple and straightforward. It is the application that requires discipline.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked up the booking thinking that it will be a good read on problem solving at Mckinsey.  The book turned out to have too shallow a coverage of the topics discussed.]]></body>
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