McKinsey's Marvin Bower
Subtitle: vision, leadership, and the creation of management consulting
By: Elizabeth Haas Edersheim
Publisher: J. Wiley
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Hoboken, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780471662709
Subjects: Leadership; Management; Business consultants; McKinsey and Company
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and index.

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