McKinsey's Marvin Bower; Contents; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PART I Translating a Vision into Reality; CHAPTER 1 Marvin Bower; CHAPTER 2 The Vision; CHAPTER 3 The Profession and the Institution; CHAPTER 4 Defining Moments of Leadership and Influence; PART II A Leader's Leader; CHAPTER 5 The Bower Reach; CHAPTER 6 Inspiring Organizational Courage; CHAPTER 7 Educating a Generation of Leaders; AUTHOR'S NOTE; APPENDIX A Timeline; APPENDIX B Brief Biography; APPENDIX C McKinsey & Co. Partners' Conference, 1964; NOTES; LIST OF INTERVIEWEES; INDEX.
This book is the story of Marvin Bower, the man who helped found McKinsey & Co. in 1939 and served as managing director of the firm from 1950 to 1967. This fascinating account details how Bower, an attorney, took a concept known as industrial engineering and changed it into management consulting.