The Will To Manage: Corporate Success through Programmed Management.

BOWER, Marvin.

Item Number: 140853

New York: McGraw-Hill Company, 1966.

First edition of this work by Marvin Bower, who is considered “the father of modern management consulting” (Harvard Business School). Octavo, original red cloth. Presentation copy, lengthily inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For Mirko- with best wishes that our experience together in ‘American Management Dynamics’ at Salzburg will help you influence the will to manage in your enterprises. Marvin Bower 15 April 69.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vera Deutsch. We have never seen another signed example.

In 1933, Marvin Bower was hired by McKinsey & Company to manage a newly acquired branch in New York. He served as managing director from 1950 to 1967, and remained a leadership figure at McKinsey as director and partner until 1992. He "is considered the father of modern management consulting" (Harvard Business School). His principled insistence on impeccable professional standards in substance, ethics, and style; his dedication to the professional development of his colleagues; and his candor, all served as a role model for several generations of management consultants, both within and outside McKinsey.