The third volume in the internationally bestselling McKinsey Trilogy, The McKinsey Engagement is an action guide to realizing the consistently high level of business solutions achieved by the experts at the world's most respected consulting firms.

Former consultant Dr. paul Friga distills the guiding principles first presented in the bestselling The McKinsey Way and the tested-in-the-trenches methodologies outlined in The McKinsey Mind, and combines them with many of the principles and procedures implemented by the military and other organizations.The results is nothing less than the business equivalent of a Special Forces Field Manual.

True to its stated goal of arming consultants and corporate problem solves with a blue-print for achieving consistently phenomenal results, The McKinsey Engagement is short on theory and long on action. Each chapter focuses on one element in the celebrated Team Focus problem-solving model and features a concise discussion of a key concept or principle, followed by :

* Clear rules of engagement

* a set of operating tactics

* sophisticated problem-solving tools

* easy-to-follow action steps

* exercises, checklists, and training tips

* war stories and bset-practices case studies

A toolkit for bringing clarity, discipline, and purpose to all your problem-solving and change management initatives, The McKinsey Engagement is an indispensable guide for consultants, as well as for executives, managers, students, and corporate trainers.



From back cover:

Problems solving is ateam effort. Whether it's implementing major change in a single division or throughout a company, identifying and fixing a snag in a production chain, or reinvigorating flagging customer satisfaction, superior teams produce superior solutions.

Drawing upon the solution-centric culture and behaviors described in the international bestseller The McKinsey Way, as well as the unparalleled analytical skills outlined in the critically acclaimed The McKinsey Mind, this final volume in the McKinsey Trilogy delivers the team-building and communication methodologies all McKinsey consultants use to achieve stellar business solutions and to ensure that those solutions "stick".

You will find step-by-step advice on how to :

* Establish clear channels of communication

* Assess your current level of performance

* Identify key questions regarding the problem to be solved

* Develop hypotheses and test them

* Synthesize relevant information into a presentable solution

In addition to field-tested strategies, Dr. Paul Friga outfits you with an arsenal of tools, exercises, guidelines, checklists, and best-practices guaranteed to magnify your team problem-solving prowess by an order of magnitude and to help you achieve world-class results - every time.