My Secret Initiation into McKinsey
- We only did work that helped the client, and which we could do at high quality and while maintaining professional standards. Everything else we turned down, no matter how much money was offered.
Ted Gioia • My Secret Initiation into McKinsey
- He started by saying that McKinsey was not a business, and we shouldn’t think of it as business.
- McKinsey was a professional service firm, he insisted, and it’s goal was to serve others .
My Secret Initiation into McKinsey
He also said that these high principles would attract the best talent—because a “business of high principles attracts high-caliber people.” I don’t think that has changed either.