Monday, April 11, 2005
Marvin Bower-Consulting Innovator
11th April, 2005, 9.54 P.M.- Rajat Called up.... I told him man Mckinsey is loosing out, yeah it is..is it the dawn of a person who literally dig consulting out mother earth's soil and throws into air which became oblivioun.. Of course dude!! I am referring to dad only...he said what??? how come your dad in consulting?? My reply was spontaneous..no man...my dad will never be a consultant, he prefers to be an academician..hope one day he will understand other dad's virtues!! He asked me what are you talking about??
I hesitate for a moment.... I told him...man...father of consulting.....Marvin Bower!!!
There is a hush, silence.....no consultant dares to stand up when it comes to bower?? Truly, he is the innovator of consulting...the patriach, legend, mercurial ...no more please!!
All Marvin Bower wanted to do was solve a problem, he had no idea he was about to create industry!!
Company post world war II started falling down, most of these companies were managed by investment bankers who put financial matters above anything . Bower known as father of management consulting never wanted any client to how to dictate his time on what.
"When you are doing something in an intangible field, we have a few old desks and people you have to motivate people basically"
He put his own money when every other firm was going public. When he turned 60 he sold his shares to firm at book value. Selling them at real value would have forced the firm into debt and bankruptcy perhaps!!
"Here we begin to throught too much about money because we have so much coming in. People who makes a lot of money get to thinking about how they will spend. May be four homes, a yacht. If an individual consultant has to make a professional decision on the spot and he has too many obligations , i worry he is likely to make a decision to attract a client who shouldn't be attracted."
"At a big management meeting the head of the company who was autocrats of all autocrats kept interrupting and speaks his own mind. Marvin was in other corner of the room and at one point of time he bellowed out the problem with the company is you Mr...." There was a deathly silence and after that Mckinsey never back to that company.
Darwall said Bower thinks aheads of decades!! His long term plan was mesmerising and outstanding.
Forbes declared in 1968...will vatican go public? May be Marvin Bower can reply..
The ultimate tribute from the ultimate magazine.
The last achievement of Bower was to help Goerge Bush to win the elections....perhaps the heights of consulting and consultants.
Shine on you crazy diamond!!
I hesitate for a moment.... I told him...man...father of consulting.....Marvin Bower!!!
There is a hush, silence.....no consultant dares to stand up when it comes to bower?? Truly, he is the innovator of consulting...the patriach, legend, mercurial ...no more please!!
All Marvin Bower wanted to do was solve a problem, he had no idea he was about to create industry!!
Company post world war II started falling down, most of these companies were managed by investment bankers who put financial matters above anything . Bower known as father of management consulting never wanted any client to how to dictate his time on what.
"When you are doing something in an intangible field, we have a few old desks and people you have to motivate people basically"
He put his own money when every other firm was going public. When he turned 60 he sold his shares to firm at book value. Selling them at real value would have forced the firm into debt and bankruptcy perhaps!!
"Here we begin to throught too much about money because we have so much coming in. People who makes a lot of money get to thinking about how they will spend. May be four homes, a yacht. If an individual consultant has to make a professional decision on the spot and he has too many obligations , i worry he is likely to make a decision to attract a client who shouldn't be attracted."
"At a big management meeting the head of the company who was autocrats of all autocrats kept interrupting and speaks his own mind. Marvin was in other corner of the room and at one point of time he bellowed out the problem with the company is you Mr...." There was a deathly silence and after that Mckinsey never back to that company.
Darwall said Bower thinks aheads of decades!! His long term plan was mesmerising and outstanding.
Forbes declared in 1968...will vatican go public? May be Marvin Bower can reply..
The ultimate tribute from the ultimate magazine.
The last achievement of Bower was to help Goerge Bush to win the elections....perhaps the heights of consulting and consultants.
Shine on you crazy diamond!!
