Create less AI slop and have more fun: 4 McKinsey partners told us what they want from junior consultants

Courtesy of McKinsey & Co; Isabel Fernandez-Pujol/BI Business Insider asked four senior partners at McKinsey what they wished their associates would stop doing. Their answers included creating less AI slop and spending more time socializing with colleagues. Some junior consultants forget that the job can adapt to their lifestyle, one said. There's no secret recipe to impressing your boss — or is there? In late June, four senior McKinsey & Co partners sat down with Business Insider to discuss what it takes to reach the uppermost ranks of the consulting firm. Three of them had recently been promoted from partner to senior partner , and the fourth had been made a distinguished partner, a new senior leadership role at McKinsey that recognizes deep, specialized expertise. They now sit among the firm's most senior and best-paid leaders, a group that numbers more than 2,500 globally.