Is it just me or is the associate role these days just a fancy position to be a page monkey. I don’t understand why so many managers (and even EDs) micro-manage their associates and BAs. It seems like a distant memory when Associates and BAs had a decent amount of autonomy and sense of ownership.

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Isn’t mck literally just overpaid fancy page monkeys?

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M1, I know PMs like this exist. But that's not the majority, statistically
A1, in my experience true legacy orgs just don't ship. Quite a few modern tech companies are shameless feature factories. Then you see across the spectrum the coordinator PMs who aggregate requests, allocate dev resources, and deal with or indulge in the politics.
All of that to say PM is often a fairly pedestrian role, with cultish marketing

Modern day McKinsey harbors parallels to the Roman Empire in the 300-400s, half of them will either die while the other half will thrive

AI are the Gauls and they are at your gates

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If we choose the East we get another 1,000 years so I guess that’s not a bad approach

McKinsey is obsessed with slides - not real impact. Lost opportunity

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Can you think of an example of micromanagement and what exactly was owned by associates at their level ?

If your only value as an Associate is making slides you won’t last long

Have you looked at your performance against expectations? Might there be a reason you are being micromanaged?

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