| Description |
xi, 355 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Preface ix -- 1 . The Price of Advice 3 -- What Does A Half-Billion Dollars Of -- Consulting Buy? -- 2. The Few, the Proud, the Totally Insane 26 -- How Consultants Ran Amok At Figgie -- International -- 3. The Jobs Elimination Festival 73 -- How Andersen Consulting Moved Into The -- Big Leagues -- 4. Taming "The Monster of the Midway" 109 -- The Rise, Fall, And Rise Again Of Sears -- 5. "A Medicine Man in a Room Full of Funeral Directors" 146 -- How Boston Consulting Group Packages And -- Peddles Ideas -- 6. Trying to Make Gold from Lead 183 -- Gemini And The Transformation Fad -- 7. Too Close for Comfort 219 -- Inside The Secret, Influential World Of -- Bain & Co. -- 8. The Gold Boys' Network 252 -- Power And Glory At Mckinsey -- 9. Keeping Dangerous Company 288 -- Caveat Emptor -- Acknowledgments 303 -- Notes 305 -- Index 331 |
| Summary |
Arthur Martinez's sophisticated and limited use of consultants is a model for how companies should work with consultants in the future; and how small, highly focused consulting firms are providing cost-effective, targeted advice to companies and mounting a significant challenge to the big consulting powerhouses. Tough, fair, and thoroughly researched, Dangerous Company is for anyone who wants to understand how the world of business really works. It will also force a rethinking by management about the implications of a decision to bring in consultants. Nothing less than the jobs of thousands of employees, millions of dollars of shareholder investment, and long-term relationships with customers are at stake |
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Dangerous Company is the never-before-told story of the powerful and secretive consulting elite, firms such as McKinsey & Company, Bain, the Boston Consulting Group, Andersen Consulting, Deloitte Touche, Gemini, and many others. Based on sources within the firms themselves, interviews with key clients, and access to now-sealed court records, the book provides the inside story that consultants would prefer you not know. James O'Shea and Charles Madigan tell you about conspiracies at the top, boneheaded assumptions, as well as brilliant performances. While Dangerous Company reveals the underside of consulting, it also looks at many success stories: how a consulting firm helped a pharmaceutical company develop a strategy for marketing instruments that enable diabetics to manage their disease. Not only has the product been profitable, it has greatly improved that lives of millions of people; how Sears got turned around |
| Analysis |
Corporations |
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Management consultants |
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Overseas item |
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United States |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Business consultants.
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| Author |
Madigan, Charles.
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| LC no. |
96038019 |
| ISBN |
081292634X |
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