One minor correction: McKinsey’s 7S model isn’t the source of *all* evil - just responsible for a lot of the mess around “Culture”, which it distils down to “Shared Values”. As you point out above, “values” are useless because they’re interpreted in such different ways. But worst of all (back to McKinsey’s toxic legacy now) they allow the conceit that just because we’ve published our “Values” we’ve somehow “fixed” the culture.
Remember McKinsey’s value of “Hjgh ethical standards” didn’t help them avoid being fined $600,000,000 for abysmal ethics in “turbocharging” (their word) opioid sales and contributing to the deaths of 50,000 US citizens per year.
I left it ambiguous as to whether the source of all evil was their 7S model or McKinsey’s themselves to save on space - and I thought you might clarify!
Great post Colin 🙂
One minor correction: McKinsey’s 7S model isn’t the source of *all* evil - just responsible for a lot of the mess around “Culture”, which it distils down to “Shared Values”. As you point out above, “values” are useless because they’re interpreted in such different ways. But worst of all (back to McKinsey’s toxic legacy now) they allow the conceit that just because we’ve published our “Values” we’ve somehow “fixed” the culture.
Remember McKinsey’s value of “Hjgh ethical standards” didn’t help them avoid being fined $600,000,000 for abysmal ethics in “turbocharging” (their word) opioid sales and contributing to the deaths of 50,000 US citizens per year.
I left it ambiguous as to whether the source of all evil was their 7S model or McKinsey’s themselves to save on space - and I thought you might clarify!