"CNN executives assisted by the McKinsey consulting firm expected the service to draw 2 million subscribers in its first year, and another 15–18 million subscribers after four years, Axios reported."
You could've polled this Board about the future success of CNN+ and done better than that.
Has anyone on this Board hired McKinsey before?
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since often times a) the client lacks the skill sets and/or bandwidth to adequately evaluate a dramatic change in operations, and b) the internal staff lacks the ability to view issues objectively, thus relying on 'in-bred' perceptions...and 'entrenched positions'.
There will always be a need for consulting services...
supported by McKinsey) are facing tough decisions...IMO, a bit like the "Dot.com Boom" at the beginning of this century...not everyone can play...customers and the competitive marketplace will decide who wins.
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/business/dealbook/cnn-plus-shuts-down.html
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They are the smartest of our smart... just like the JFK whiz kids who got us into the Viet Nam war.
Our elites are never taught anything about doubting their own analyses.
Link: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mcnamara-was-wrong-terribly-wrong-about-vietnam/
In their defense, it is sooo much easier to be sure of your opinion if you just learned it at Harvard, and you've never had to actually practice the theories in the real world in business. You can just jump from company to company, make your recommendations, and move on before anything bad happens.
geo-political response to the growth of communist expansion...any involvement by McKinsey was purely operational.
Link: https://millercenter.org/the-presidency/educational-resources/age-of-eisenhower/americas-vietnam
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just my opinion...you may have better info on that ;-).
and Lessons of Vietnam, while I continue to pray that he is suffering the pains and horror of the deepest part of hell or for non-believers, The Under World.
In the book he admits that the attack routes out of Utapao Royal Thai Air Force Base for B-52s and the routes for the USAF F-105s out of Korat RTAFB and Takli RTAB, Takhli were provided to the Swiss embassy which in turn provided them to the North Vietnamese. Oh wait, where have I recently heard about something like that? Oh yes, the Biden administration provided intelligence information on Putin's military tactical movements to the Chinese who promptly turned the information over to the Kremlin. Isn't it interesting that (some of you might want to take notice of this) Democrats controlled the white house in both instantizes.
Link: Hard cover: $17.99
I'm sure the fear of nuclear weapons played a part, but from my seat here at home, the "Domino Theory" at that time had some credence and our demonstrated resolve (thank you, JH) just might have had something to do with that never coming to pass...we'll never know for sure.
Really, really tough calls in that time and place, given the recent world events.
He didn't say McKinsey ran US Policy.
it wasn't the influence of elite, Ivy League, specialists in Operations Research that got us into Vietnam...as my previous link shows, it was our concern for communist expansion...a geo-political calculus, not the operational efficiency (cough) those "Kids" sought to add.
How again did we get so far off from McKinsey and CNN+?...oh, I know...Curly's misinformed tangent to Vietnam...my bad for following that deflection.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiz_Kids_(Department_of_Defense)
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"President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles believed, as Dulles put in a speech in early 1953, that the Soviets wanted to control “Indochina, Siam, Burma, Malaya … what is called the rice bowl of Asia.” Ike agreed that keeping Indochina from falling to the Communists remained essential to America’s national security."
Not sure how old you are, but those were very "Cold War" times, and "Blame" for Vietnam must be assigned to both parties...wouldn't hurt for you to review that article.
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You never disappoint with your ridiculous takes. You always make me laugh.
observers, here's another excerpt from my previous link that shows the prevailing U.S. foreign policy mindset, which clearly got passed along to subsequent administrations...
"Only a few months back we had both [General} Chiang [Kai-shek, president of the Republic of China, who had ] and a strong well-equipped French army to support the free world's position in Southeast Asia. The French are gone—making it clearer than ever that we cannot afford the loss of Chiang unless all of us are to get completely out of that corner of the globe. This is unthinkable to us—I feel it must be to you."
Eisenhower to Winston Churchill, February 19, 1955
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This is how we got into "Vietnam" in the first place...how the issue was handled after that is another subject for discussion.
Fireside chats with Brian Stelter?
Don't forget your kleenex
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since Booze Allen and Mackenzie were double my price. It’s BS. Most only read the first 15 pages anyway.
The stupid client pulled the plug after one month. They were on track for 2 Million!
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