The Playbook Mckinsey Charges $2M For
12 skills that turn Claude into an Mckinsey level consulting engine.
McKinsey generates $16 billion a year. Not because they hire people smarter than you. Their median hire is a 26-year-old with a good GPA and no industry experience.
What McKinsey does is take that 26-year-old and spend two years systematically installing a set of analytical frameworks into how they think.
By the time that person sits across from your CEO, they're not winging it. They're running a methodology that's been refined across 50 years and tens of thousands of engagements.
That methodology is what clients are buying when they write a $2M check. Not the analyst. The framework the analyst is running.
The frameworks are not secret. Minto published the Pyramid Principle. Martin and Lafley published Playing to Win. Kaplan and Norton published the Balanced Scorecard. Gadiesh and Gilbert published Profit Pool analysis in the Harvard Business Review. The intellectual infrastructure of elite consulting has been in print for decades.
The barrier was never access to the ideas, it was the time and organizational infrastructure required to operationalize them on a live problem, under deadline pressure, for a specific client situation.
Claude Opus 4.8 removes that barrier. This guide gives you 12 skills built directly on the frameworks McKinsey trains its consultants on not paraphrased, not simplified, but operationalized with the prompt logic that makes them work on your actual problems. The intellectual foundation, why the framework works, and exactly how to run it.
This is what $2M used to buy.
Inside you will find 12 skills:
01 — Problem Framing (McKinsey Issue Tree + Minto’s SCR)
02 — Financial Modeling & Analysis (McKinsey Value Driver Tree)
03 — Market & Competitive Intelligence (Profit Pool Analysis + Porter’s Five Forces)
04 — Document Synthesis at Scale (Minto Pyramid + McKinsey “So What” Discipline)
05 — Primary Research Synthesis (Grounded Theory + Argyris Espoused Theory vs. Theory in Use)
06 — Hypothesis Generation & Stress-Testing (McKinsey Hypothesis-Driven Problem Solving + Heuer’s Competing Hypotheses)
07 — Strategic Choice (Playing to Win — Martin & Lafley + Porter’s Strategic Coherence)
08 — Execution Planning (McKinsey 7-S + Bain’s RAPID + Bossidy & Charan’s Execution Standard)
09 — KPI Architecture & Value Realization (Kaplan-Norton Balanced Scorecard + McKinsey Value Capture)
10 — War-Gaming & Risk Pressure-Testing (Shell Scenario Planning via McKinsey + Game Theory Applied to Competitive Dynamics)
11 — Executive Communication (Minto’s Pyramid Principle + SCR + Aristotelian Rhetoric)
12 — Proposal & SOW Writing (SPIN Selling + CEB/Gartner Insight Selling + McKinsey Engagement Economics)
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