Mckinsey and Company is no doubt one of the leading consultancy firms in the world that helps numerous businesses and governments find solutions to problems. Behind this huge successes are people from leading graduate schools that power the solutions.
But it is not just the assemblage of smart people that makes McKinsey so successful. The smarts of this talented pool of people is driven by processes and philosophy distilled through years of experience and problem solving.
In The McKinsey Edge, Shu M. Hattori brings you the strategies for personal success. Shu Hattori is a Japanese-British national with experience in top management consulting at McKinsey & Company, Rocket Internet, Groupon, and MarketWatch.com.
The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm
Author: Shu Hattori
Pages: 192
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education; 1 edition (November 27, 2015)
ISBN: 1259588688, 978-1259588686
There are tons of books written on personal efficiency, how to be a good worker, best way to handle teams and projects, and the qualities of a great leader.
The McKinsey Edge is an attempt to capture how things are done at McKinsey and Company. The author, in a way, charts his own progress in the company and shares things that worked and he learned from the best during his career. After a few pages of positioning self and the company, the author dives into the meat of the book.
While some of the things that you find in the book are what most people learn through experience, others are unique to the McKinsey working style.
The tightly-written book is just a couple of hundred pages and the author does not veer away from the topic at hand. The first chapter focuses on a kind of personal efficiency program with advice to get most out of yourself and the best way to function in a work environment.
With a strong list of 47 principles, the author covers all the aspects of managing your career and the best way to wade through your daily tasks efficiently. The best practices mostly come from the way things are done at McKinsey and Company. The breadth of the principles covers things that you will want to know at the beginning or your career to things that you will be happy to know in your early days as a manager or leader.