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McKinsey & Company: Gen AI – A Cognitive Industrial Revolution

The Transformative Power of Generative AI

Silicon Valley pioneer Reid Hoffman describes generative AI as a “steam engine of the mind,” poised to profoundly change our professional and personal lives. This cognitive industrial revolution promises to unlock unprecedented levels of innovation and productivity.

Our Purpose, Mission, and Values

Purpose
To help create positive, enduring change in the world.

Mission
To help our clients make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in their performance and to build a great firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people.

Our Values

We are a values-driven organization, inspired by the principles of our founder, James O. McKinsey, and Marvin Bower, managing director from 1950 to 1967. Our values have evolved to meet the changing times and guide our long-term strategy and daily client service. Each year, we dedicate a day to reflect on what these values mean to our work and our lives.

Adhere to the Highest Professional Standards

• Put client interests ahead of the firm’s
• Maintain high standards for client service
• Observe high ethical standards
• Preserve client confidences
• Maintain an independent perspective
• Manage client and firm resources cost-effectively

Improve Our Clients’ Performance Significantly

• Follow the top-management approach
• Pursue holistic impact
• Use our global network to deliver the best of our firm to all clients
• Bring innovations in management practice to clients
• Build client capabilities to sustain improvement
• Build enduring relationships based on trust

Create an Unrivaled Environment for Exceptional People

• Be non-hierarchical and inclusive
• Sustain a caring meritocracy
• Develop one another through apprenticeship and mentoring
• Uphold the obligation to engage and dissent
• Embrace diverse perspectives with curiosity and respect
• Govern ourselves as a “one firm” partnership

Our History

McKinsey Quarterly
Explore nine decades of impact in the history of our firm, chronicled in the McKinsey Quarterly.