管理咨询是一个神秘的业务。业内嘲笑，辱骂，或崇敬，这取决于一个人的角度来看。对于咨询的旗手-麦肯锡公司的态度也是如此，虽然只有那些信息闭塞、脑子进水的人在嘲笑。

Journalist Duff McDonald’s new book The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and its Secret Influence on American Business promises to pull a Toto and reveal McKinsey more as the Kansas medicine man than as the great and powerful Oz of global business.

Founder James McKinsey (and Marvin Bower, who is properly credited for shaping the firm) both fit the bill with their relatively humble Midwestern origins. But despite a plethora of entertaining stories and characters, readers looking for new revelations of what makes McKinsey special will likely come away unsatisfied. Nor will they gain insight into how the 2009 Galleon insider trading scandal that ensnared former McKinsey managing director Rajat Gupta and director Anil Kumar has affected the consulting firm.

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