i'll save you 30 mins.. "we have no idea..... "

Recycling PowerPoint slides and calling it 'consulting' has hit the end of the road.

This just reinforced the thought I've been having for the last 3+ years that consulting firms are going to either become consulting firms using AI agents and specialized proprietary models that perform better than frontier AI companies' models at specific industry domains or cease operations completely.

McKinsey is a fascinating study for the impact of AI on all cognitive work, and for the role of future senior leaders.  Adi's questions were probing, but he was too gentle and I would have liked more challenge and agreeable disagreement to push the thinking.  One gets the impression Bob is walking a narrow and tricky path between projecting 'old style' McKinsey level strategic insight, clarity and certainty, and just saying "we're exploring..." to everything.  With AI being so new, and so few success stories (ie thinking of MIT's study of failure rates of AI initiatives) around to show AI's business impact, it'll be some time before McKinsey have learned from their clients what does and does not really work.  I've learned that we're all in the same boat, and McKinsey too have some difficult and bumpy years ahead.

Imagine how many time they have been recommending laying off employees to the CEOs they have been consulting to.

The questions are very precise and pointed like any client typically seek answers for. The answers are essays that will require another consultant to interpret !

This is an interesting shift. As AI reshapes consulting, the real differentiator may no longer be access to information but the ability to bring clarity, judgment, and context to complex decisions. The role of leadership thinking becomes even more critical.

Vague answers and beat around the bush 😂. I ask Perplexity instead, hopefully less perplexed after listening to the answers😂

He said everything and nothing at the same time LOL

Even the biggest firms have to pivot. Respect your history, but don’t let it become an anchor in uncertain times.

How to become a McKinsey consultant?

You go to a random firm and say, "We need to reduce costs by 25% and increase sales by 15% during the fiscal year..."

Yep, the we will build this thing with and for you vs I'll give you a PowerPoint of what to do. That's the future of consulting.

this guy has great charisma

this is wild, didn't expect that from mc kinsey

interesting take on the future of work

How will the American economy go on without the most mid students from B-school selling PowerPoint slop at $250K a pop?

The “co-creation” point lands differently when you’re deploying AI internally. With Dreamlit AI, our best workflows came from product and support writing prompts together.

No one knows what is exactly going on in the world, folks are just trying to figure out and what Bob is telling us is they are also trying to figure things out, the difference between the normal organizations and McKinsey is they have got huge resources doing the business of figuring out, others do not have that luxury.

so long story short Mckinsey is becoming goldman sachs, bain. kkr, blackstone- this will be fun when they'll have to compete against the established giants and not hide behind the consulting curtain ...18 months .. how many layoffs between now and then

Mckinsey will still be needed after ai…1. to give corp execs a “story” so s to raise their total compensation to the stratosphere. 2. to make recommendations that are risky so that corp execs have someone to blame for failed actions.  3.  to make recommendations that their boards would otherwise not accept, etc etc.