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Michael and Us

PREVIEW - Confessions of a McKinsey Consultant (w/ Garrison Lovely)

Michael and Us

Luke Savage and Will Sloan

Tv & Film

4.6668 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Luke speaks to former McKinsey consultant turned whistleblower Garrison Lovely about his September cover story in The Nation magazine, the secretive but hugely influential business of elite management consulting, and what he saw inside the world's most prestigious — and notorious — management consulting firm. PATREON-EXCLUSIVE BONUS - https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-of-w-91914451

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0:00.0

Something I found very, very interesting in your piece was the sense I got that as a McKinsey

0:05.8

employee retained by ICE, it seems like you were pretty deeply integrated with the organization.

0:14.0

You write that you were functionally the equivalent of full-time ICE employees, you and your team,

0:18.3

and you even had ICE email addresses.

0:22.7

And the reason I bring this up is because that line in your piece immediately made me think of the exchange

0:28.3

between Binya Applebaum and Pete Buttigieg at the New York Times editorial board, right? You know,

0:35.4

the one I'm talking about. You work for a company that was fixing bread prices.

0:39.3

Maybe me saying this is just sort of, you know, maybe this is a rhetorical question.

0:43.2

But I mean, perhaps a way into this is given what you've said.

0:46.5

I mean, what was your reaction when you saw Buttigieg kind of tried to differentiate

0:50.9

the work that McKinsey did from the firm itself.

0:56.4

Yeah. I mean, it is really the case that when you're on a project, you are a full-time

1:02.3

equivalent for that client. And you're honestly working more than a typical person working for

1:07.3

that company. They might be working nine to five and you're working like eight to

1:11.1

seven and then doing more at the hotel. And yeah, you have your own email address. You are connected to

1:15.7

their systems. And yeah, I think that like you were essentially on the hook for what those clients

1:21.7

are doing or like the parts of it that you're working on. Another thing that was funny about people to

1:27.3

Judge's arguments about McKinsey is like,

1:29.8

he's like, my hands are tied. I signed an NDA. I can't name my clients. But I looked at my

1:34.6

NDA, which is probably about the same as what he signed. And it doesn't say anything about naming

1:38.4

clients. This is actually just a norm within McKinsey that you don't name your clients, but

1:43.6

it's not prohibited legally or by thissey that you don't name your clients, but it's not prohibited legally

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