Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Consulting and agency models

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Selling billable judgement. Includes the critical reporting, which is where the incentives are clearest.

Books 9Recommenders 12

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  1. The McKinsey WayEthan M. Rasiel, 1999
  2. The Lords of StrategyWalter Kiechel, 2010
  3. Managing the Professional Service FirmDavid H. Maister, 1993
Confessions of an Advertising ManConfessions of an Advertising Man
T1 Confessions of an Advertising Man
David Ogilvy · 1963
Open LibraryGoodreads

How to win and keep agency clients and write advertising that sells.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, David Cancel, Sam Parr

Managing the Professional Service FirmManaging the Professional Service Firm
T1 Managing the Professional Service Firm
David H. Maister · 1993
Open LibraryGoodreads

How firms that sell expertise set their ratio of juniors to partners, and price.

The Lords of StrategyThe Lords of Strategy
T2 The Lords of Strategy
Walter Kiechel · 2010
Open LibraryGoodreads

How BCG, Bain and McKinsey created the market for strategy itself.

The Firm: The Story of McKinseyThe Firm: The Story of McKinsey
T2 The Firm: The Story of McKinsey
Duff McDonald · 2013
Open LibraryGoodreads

How the modern consulting partnership was invented and priced.

Recommended by: Andrew Chen

Who Is Michael Ovitz?Who Is Michael Ovitz?
T2 Who Is Michael Ovitz?
Michael Ovitz · 2018
Open LibraryGoodreads

Building Creative Artists Agency into Hollywood's top agency, then failing at Disney.

Recommended by: Ben Horowitz, Benedict Evans and 4 others

When McKinsey Comes to TownWhen McKinsey Comes to Town
T2 When McKinsey Comes to Town
Walt Bogdanich, Michael Forsythe · 2022
Open LibraryGoodreads

Investigative account of who pays for consulting advice.

Million Dollar ConsultingMillion Dollar Consulting
T3 Million Dollar Consulting
Alan Weiss · 1992
Open LibraryGoodreads

Value pricing for solo and boutique consultancies.

Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Noah Kagan

The McKinsey WayThe McKinsey Way
T3 The McKinsey Way
Ethan M. Rasiel · 1999
Open LibraryGoodreads

The delivery method behind the fee.

The Anatomy of HumbugThe Anatomy of Humbug
T3 The Anatomy of Humbug
Paul Feldwick · 2015
Open LibraryGoodreads

What advertising agencies sell, and the theories of how ads work they sell it with.

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