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The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm
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An explosive exposé of the world's most prestigious and successful management consultancy.
McKinsey earns billions advising almost every major corporation as well as countless governments, including Britain's, the USA's and China's. It boasts of its ability to maximise efficiency while making the world a better place. Its millionaire partners and network of alumni go on to top jobs in the world's most powerful organisations. And yet, shielded by non-disclosure agreements, its work remains largely secret—until now.
In this propulsive investigation, two prize-winning journalists reveal the reality. McKinsey's work includes incentivising the prescription of opioids; ruthless cost-cutting in the NHS; executing Trump's immigration policies (the ones that put children in cages). Meanwhile its vast profits derive from a client roster that has included the coal, tobacco and vaping industries, as well as some of the world's most unsavoury despots. And for the last six decades, McKinsey has been the brains behind many of the most loathed and controversial business practices: mass lay-offs, outsourcing overseas, soaring executive pay, as well as the key innovations that led to the financial crash.
McKinsey proudly insists it is a values-led organisation. When McKinsey Comes to Town is a parable of values betrayed: a devastating portrait of a firm whose work has often made the world more unequal, more corrupt and more dangerous.
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In June 2009, Wendell Potter made national headlines with his scorching testimony before the Senate panel on health care reform. This former senior vice president of CIGNA explained how health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, how they flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and how they skew political debate with multibillion-dollar public relations campaigns designed to spread disinformation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must Read
- De Randy en 01-11-11
De: Wendell Potter
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Supercapitalism
- The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life
- De: Robert B. Reich
- Narrado por: Dick Hill
- Duración: 9 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 179
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Since the 1970s, and notwithstanding three recessions, the U.S. economy has soared. American capitalism has been a triumph, and it has spread throughout the world. At the same time, argues the former U.S. secretary of labor, Robert B. Reich, the effectiveness of democracy in America has declined. It has grown less responsive to the citizenry, and people are feeling more and more helpless as a result.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Robert Reich for V.P. (of the U.S.)
- De Kenneth en 11-07-07
De: Robert B. Reich
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Stealth War
- How China Took Over While America's Elite Slept
- De: Robert Spalding
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 7 h y 4 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,943
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The media often suggest that Russia poses the greatest threat to America's national security, but the real danger lies farther east. While those in power have been distracted and disorderly, China has waged a six-front war on America's economy, military, diplomacy, technology, education, and infrastructure - and they're winning. It's almost too late to undo the shocking, though nearly invisible, victories of the Chinese. In Stealth War, retired Air Force Brigadier General Robert Spalding reveals China's motives and secret attacks on the West.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A General with a backbone loaded with truth "woke"
- De Jason en 10-01-19
De: Robert Spalding
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Private Empire
- ExxonMobil and American Power
- De: Steve Coll
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 24 h y 16 m
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 633
Steve Coll investigates the largest and most powerful private corporation in the United States, revealing the true extent of its power. ExxonMobil’s annual revenues are larger than the economic activity in the great majority of countries. In many of the countries where it conducts business, ExxonMobil’s sway over politics and security is greater than that of the United States embassy. In Washington, ExxonMobil spends more money lobbying Congress and the White House than almost any other corporation. Yet despite its outsized influence, it is a black box.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Please no more accents!
- De Zak en 07-24-12
De: Steve Coll
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The Firm
- The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business
- De: Duff McDonald
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 11 h y 19 m
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A behind-the-scenes, revelatory history of McKinsey & Company, America's most influential and controversial business consulting firm, told by one of the nation's leading financial journalists. In The Firm, Duff McDonald uncovers how these high-powered, high-priced business savants have ushered in waves of structural, financial, and technological shifts. With unrivaled access to company documents and current and former employees, McDonald reveals the inner workings of what just might be the most influential private organization in America.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Warning: Non consultants should avoid
- De R. Jaeger en 11-04-13
De: Duff McDonald
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Dealing with China
- An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower
- De: Henry M. Paulson
- Narrado por: Kevin Stillwell
- Duración: 18 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 353
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When Hu Jintao, China's then vice president, came to visit the New York Stock Exchange and Ground Zero in 2002, he asked Hank Paulson to be his guide. It was a testament to the pivotal role that Goldman Sachs played in helping China experiment with private enterprise. In Dealing with China, the best-selling author of On the Brink draws on his unprecedented access to both the political and business leaders of modern China to answer several key questions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Valuable Book on China
- De Michael Moore en 09-04-15
De: Henry M. Paulson
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That Used to Be Us
- How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back
- De: Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
- Narrado por: Jason Culp
- Duración: 16 h y 53 m
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America has a huge problem. It faces four major challenges, on which its future depends, and it is failing to meet them. In That Used to Be Us, Thomas L. Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, and Michael Mandelbaum, one of our leading foreign policy thinkers, analyze those challenges - globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation's chronic deficits, and its pattern of energy consumption - and spell out what we need to do now to rediscover America and rise to this moment.
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5 out of 5 stars
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We have met the enemy and it is us.... Pogo
- De Soudant en 09-16-11
De: Thomas L. Friedman, y otros
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Superpower Showdown
- How the Battle Between Trump and Xi Threatens a New Cold War
- De: Bob Davis, Lingling Wei
- Narrado por: Rick Adamson
- Duración: 15 h y 40 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 52
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This is the inside story of the US-China trade war, how relations between these superpowers unraveled, darkening prospects for global peace and prosperity, as told by two Wall Street Journal reporters, one based in Washington, DC, the other in Beijing, who have had more access to the decision-makers in the White House and in China’s Zhongnanhai leadership compound than anyone else.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Boring. Waste of Time.
- De DING MING YING 丁明英 en 11-23-20
De: Bob Davis, y otros
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Hostile Takeover
- Resisting Centralized Government's Stranglehold on America
- De: Matt Kibbe
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 12 h y 11 m
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Hostile Takeover is a rebellious challenge to the "upper management" of government, who are choking American prosperity and liberty. Matt Kibbe exposes the privileged collusion of Washington insiders - and maps out a proven plan for how to return power from the self-appointed "experts" back to the people. Dubbed "one of the Tea Party's masterminds" by Newsweek, Kibbe reveals how grassroots citizens can and will check the federal behemoth and restore the American enterprise.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An amazing book from an interesting perspective
- De Aaron en 12-28-12
De: Matt Kibbe
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A Capitalism for the People
- Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity
- De: Luigi Zingales
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 11 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Born in Italy, University of Chicago economist Luigi Zingales witnessed firsthand the consequences of high inflation and unemployment - paired with rampant nepotism and cronyism - on a country’s economy. This experience profoundly shaped his professional interests, and in 1988 he arrived in the United States, armed with a political passion and the belief that economists should not merely interpret the world, but should change it for the better.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable but a tad predictable.
- De Kevin en 12-24-12
De: Luigi Zingales
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The Great American Stick Up
- Greedy Bankers and the Politicians Who Love Them
- De: Robert Scheer
- Narrado por: Christian Rummel
- Duración: 6 h y 12 m
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Instead of going where other journalists have gone in search of this story - the board rooms and trading floors of the big Wall Street firms - Scheer goes back to Washington, D.C., a veritable crime scene, beginning in the 1980s, where the captains of the finance industry, their lobbyists and allies among leading politicians destroyed an American regulatory system that had been functioning effectively since the era of the New Deal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great telling of an unfortunate part of history
- De Trace en 10-27-20
De: Robert Scheer
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Big Dirty Money
- The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime
- De: Jennifer Taub
- Narrado por: Eliza Foss
- Duración: 8 h y 49 m
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How ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax doges or break the law to get richer and more powerful - and how we can stop it. There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke-hold arrest, and death, if you are not among the top one percent.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Loss of Glass-Steagal has led to Cheating
- De Rajiv en 05-23-21
De: Jennifer Taub
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Plutocrats
- The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else
- De: Chrystia Freeland
- Narrado por: Allyson Ryan
- Duración: 11 h y 38 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 230
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 179
There has always been some gap between rich and poor in this country, but in the last few decades what it means to be rich has changed dramatically. Alarmingly, the greatest income gap is not between the 1 percent and the 99 percent, but within the wealthiest 1 percent of our nation-as the merely wealthy are left behind by the rapidly expanding fortunes of the new global super-rich. Forget the 1 percent; Plutocrats proves that it is the wealthiest 0.1 percent who are outpacing the rest of us at break-neck speed.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good Storytelling but ... analysis is "eh'
- De Susan en 11-04-12
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The Fine Print
- How Big Companies Use 'Plain English' to Rob You Blind
- De: David Cay Johnston
- Narrado por: Todd McLaren
- Duración: 12 h y 10 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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David Cay Johnston has made a name for himself as the defender of the common man, calling out the rich and powerful for cheating the system at the expense of everyone else. Whether he's exposing unjust loopholes in the tax code that help the rich get richer or pointing out how powerful corporations pocket government subsidies at excessive taxpayer expense, Johnston is an eloquent town crier for justice and equality.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must listen if you love or hate Trump
- De Rob D en 04-19-17
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Third World America
- How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
- De: Arianna Huffington
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 128
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America's middle class, the driver of so much of our economic success and political stability, is rapidly disappearing, forcing us to confront the fear that we are slipping as a nation - that our children and grandchildren will enjoy fewer opportunities and face a lower standard of living than we did. It's the dark flipside of the American Dream - an American Nightmare of our own making.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sad... but with a ray of hope
- De Maciej en 10-20-10
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The Party
- The Secret World of China's Communist Rulers
- De: Richard McGregor
- Narrado por: Matthew Waterson
- Duración: 11 h y 14 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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The Party is Financial Times reporter Richard McGregor's eye-opening investigation into China's Communist Party, and the integral role it has played in the country's rise as a global superpower and rival to the United States. Many books have examined China's economic rise, human rights record, turbulent history, and relations with the US; none until now, however, have tackled the issue central to understanding all of these issues: how the ruling communist government works. The Party delves deeply into China's secretive political machine.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The content is good but the narrator is terrible
- De Kit en 02-24-20
De: Richard McGregor
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Profiles in Corruption
- Abuse of Power by America’s Progressive Elite
- De: Peter Schweizer
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 7 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,004
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,688
In Profiles in Corruption, Schweizer offers a deep-dive investigation into the private finances and secrets deals of some of America’s top political leaders. And, as usual, he doesn’t disappoint, with never-before-reported revelations that uncover corruption and abuse of power - all backed up by a mountain of corporate documents and legal filings from around the globe. Learn about how they are making sweetheart deals, generating side income, bending the law to their own benefits, using legislation to advance their own interests, and much more.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening & Horrifying!!
- De Kay Lo en 01-22-20
De: Peter Schweizer
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A Collective Bargain
- Unions, Organizing, and the Fight for Democracy
- De: Jane McAlevey
- Narrado por: Jane McAlevey
- Duración: 9 h y 21 m
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In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class. Since the 1930s, when unions flourished under New Deal protections, corporations have waged a stealthy and ruthless war against the labor movement. And they’ve been winning.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Disappointing
- De Ellen en 01-26-20
De: Jane McAlevey
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- 02-18-24
Great insights into McKinsey
I loved the book feels like I know so much more about this secretive consultantcy!
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