"I had the privilege of working closely with Marvin and McKinsey for many years. This book makes Marvin come to life and perpetuates him as a role model."-Peter F. Drucker"A wonderful book about a wonderful man. In many ways, Marvin's McKinsey framed the hypotheses in our own search for excellence-f
McKinsey's Marvin Bower : vision, leadership, and the creation of management consulting
β Scribed by Elizabeth Haas Edersheim
- Publisher
- J. Wiley
- Year
- 2004
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 321
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
The complete, untold story of McKinsey & Co.'s founding fatherThis is the authoritative and insightful account of Marvin Bower, who helped found McKinsey & Co. in 1939 and served as managing director of the firm from 1950 to 1967, and of how Bower, an attorney, took a concept known as industrial engineering and transformed it into what we now know as management consulting. As Dick Cavanagh, now CEO of the Conference Board, said, Bower "didn't just preach values, he practiced them. . . . He was a teacher as well as a leader."Elizabeth Haas Edersheim (Pelham Manor, NY) founded New York Consultin. Read more...
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