Scaling McKinsey: Inventing Management Consulting
McKinsey founded his eponymous firm, but died before it scaled globally. This is the story of how McKinsey’s protege Marvin Bower built McKinsey into the firm we know today.
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Cases of companies building or managing effective employee culture, for the purpose of effective organisational behaviour.
A collection of cases on counter-positioning as a competitive advantage.
Branding is one of the hardest competitive moats to build, and one of the most powerful.
How entities — companies, firms, protocols — design effective incentives to accomplish effective goals.
Process improvement is harder than it looks because of a 'worse before better' dynamic. This is what that looks like.
What it's like in the search for product market fit, at the very earliest stages of a product.
McKinsey founded his eponymous firm, but died before it scaled globally. This is the story of how McKinsey’s protege Marvin Bower built McKinsey into the firm we know today.
How an accounting professor started a firm that changed the world.
How Yvon Chouinard — a ‘reluctant businessman’ built Patagonia to show the world that it was possible to make money and do good for the environment.
This is the story of how the creation of the Swatch Group, and its namesake plastic watch, led to the turnaround of the entire Swiss watch industry.
What happens when business expansion, done for entirely rational reasons, ends up tanking your company because of a once-in-a-generation disaster that nobody could have foreseen?
Ample Hills Creamery exploded on the back of influential fans. And then it died. Here's why this is a textbook example of bad business expansion.
How Leonard Lauder steered the brand through a disruptive shift unlike any other.
How Mark Roberge went from engineering to sales and built a high performance sales organisation from scratch.
What it looks like when you apply statistical process control the a fourth grade science class.
Apart from being a successful turnaround CEO, there is one other thing about Jim Kilts that is highly unusual: his ability to create a deep bench of executive leaders in every company he helmed. This is how he did it.
How Snowflake’s Chief Revenue Officer Chris Degnan helped Snowflake find product market fit.
What Dhirubhai Ambani’s fight against Nusli Wadia shows us about doing business in rising India.