

Managers do not produce goods or deliver services. Management consultants advise managers on how to run companies McKinsey alone serves management at 90 of the world’s 100 largest corporation s. The answers also explain why the Democratic Party’s left wing is so suspicious of the nice and obviously impressive young man who wishes to be president. The answers to these questions put management consultants at the epicenter of economic inequality and the destruction of the American middle class. J ohn McWhorter: The woke attack on Pete Buttigieg How did this come to pass? And what consequences has the rise of management consulting had for the organization of American business and the lives of American workers? But the conventional nature of the career path makes it more, not less, worthy of examination. This move was predictable, not eccentric: The top graduates of elite colleges typically pass through McKinsey or a similar firm before settling into their adult career. He could have taken any number of jobs and, moreover, had no obvious interest in business. When Pete Buttigieg accepted a position at the management consultancy McKinsey & Company, he already had sterling credentials: high-school valedictorian, a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a Rhodes Scholarship. About the author: Daniel Markovits is the Guido Calabresi Professor of Law at Yale Law School and the author of The Meritocracy Trap.
