McKinsey
Why AI will dwarf every tech revolution before it: robots, manufacturing, AR glasses from CES 2026 adds McKinsey as a live CES 2026 internal-transformation case through Bob Sternfels. The episode says McKinsey saved 1.5 million hours in search and synthesis, had about 25,000 personalized agents for 40,000 humans, and planned to grow client-facing staff while shrinking non-client-facing staff, making the firm a concrete example of Agent Workforce Redesign and AI Organization Design.
McKinsey is mentioned in E240｜OpenAI联手PE砸下40亿美元，聊聊硅谷最火新职位FDE through Oliver’s prior private-equity consulting background. The episode uses that background to contrast strategy advice with AI deployment work that changes workflows and leaves systems behind, while still arguing that consulting demand may grow as companies rethink business models under AI.
Tom Blomfield on Monzo, YC, and Founder Lessons adds Tom Blomfield’s brief intended path into McKinsey after Oxford. Tom says he accepted a role but had gardening leave before starting, during which the GoCardless opportunity emerged, and he later treats consulting as evidence that conventional employment did not fit him well.
Burning questions: a more fire-prone world adds McKinsey as part of the survey context for Promotion Ambition Gap. The episode says McKinsey and Lean In tracked a reversal in the prior trend around women wanting promotions, linking consulting research to Women Workplace Progress Stall rather than to client work.
Connections
- Oliver — source participant with prior McKinsey private-equity consulting experience.
- Invisible Technologies — company where Oliver now discusses AI workflow implementation.
- Service As Software and Business-Led AI Transformation — frames that put consulting-adjacent expertise into production workflows.
- Tom Blomfield and GoCardless — startup-path contrast added by The Social Radars.
- Women Workplace Progress Stall and Promotion Ambition Gap - survey context added by The Intelligence.
- Bob Sternfels, Agent Workforce Redesign, AI Coworkers, and Digital Employees - internal AI workforce redesign case added by All-In.