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Articles in Business Coaching & Consulting written specifically for management consultants.

The McKinsey 7-S Framework Is Overused. Here's When It Actually Fits.

The 7-S framework is genuinely useful for exactly one class of problem: alignment failures after a major structural change. Applied outside that, it produces a tidy diagram and little else.

The McKinsey 7S Framework Assumes Alignment Is Always the Goal — Sometimes Productive Tension Is

Not every gap between an organization's stated strategy and its actual structure is a problem to be closed — some of that tension is doing real, if uncomfortable, organizational work.