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#140 Tom Peters - Fired from McKinsey to Top Business Thought Leader

The Pathless Path with Paul Millerd

CHAPTER

The Disconnection Between Strategic Planning and the Consulting Firms

Mike Downey: I read in Duff McDonald's book that you wrote this op-ed sort of saying that like strategic planning is overrated. One reaction to it was the guy who ran the biggest office at McKinsey, whose name was blank. He wanted me fired for having put that article in the Wall Street Journal. And a good speech, as I've said to people, is not good theory. If you want innovation, just start trying stuff, he says.

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