Workbook for Volume 1 – Part III – Section #1: The Legacy of Strategy Consulting
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For returning readers and subscribers: This post introduces the Revised Version for Volume 1 – Part III – Section #1: The Legacy of Strategy Consulting
Summary:
Section #1: The Legacy of Strategy Consulting – Walter Kiechel III’s history of strategy consulting, published in 2010, titled “The Lords of Strategy”, and based on his personal experience with the principal actors covers the development of strategy consulting from 1963 up to 2009. Keichel adds nearly 25 years to E.J. Kahn Jr.’s book “The Problem Solvers”, expanding the reader’s view from a post-WWII history of Arthur D. Little to a history of the strategy consulting industry. Strategy consulting gave executives new business “Word Magic”, new business “Checklists”, and new business “Tools” to understand the nature of their day-to-day work. These have lasting power because they were grounded in a new “muscular empiricism” based on “Number Magic”, a level of real-life detail, data gathering, and analysis previously absent in the business world. This means that the legacy of strategy consulting placed all businesses, including its own business, on a treadmill of change that stops for no one. The early mechanistic innovations became commodities, requiring new evolutionary innovations on the treadmill of change that stops for no one. It also sets the stage for what comes after strategy consulting: The “Ecologically Rational” view of business as a foil in a flow of energy.
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