These were the dreaded words of your McKinsey project manager when she ripped out your analysis masterpiece from page 10 to page 57 in the document. Then, as a junior analyst, I felt depressed as I interpreted this that my work has been for nothing.
Here are some things that project manager could have said in addition:
- Most of the time, slides that communicate the answer are completely different from slides that show how you got to the answer.
- Related: the project is moving on now, we have convinced the client that our assumptions are correct, now we need to get them to move and take action
- Without that slide that sits now on page 57, we would never have gotten where we are now. If we still had to talk about that analysis on page 10, we probably were doing something wrong
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