Reseña del libro "Project Everest (en Inglés)"
What happens when one of the world's most powerful professional-services firms tries to reinvent itself-and the people who own it refuse to go along?In Project Everest: Ambition. Conflict. Failure. The $600 Million Lesson, William Shannon takes readers inside EY's extraordinary attempt to split its global audit and consulting businesses and create a new consulting powerhouse.Project Everest promised to reshape one of the world's largest professional-services organizations. It involved billions of dollars of potential value, thousands of partners, complex negotiations over Tax and other businesses, a possible IPO, and a fundamental question about who would control EY's future.Then it collapsed.After years of planning and approximately $600 million in costs, EY abandoned the separation in April 2023.But why?Was Everest a flawed strategy?Did EY underestimate the power of its US partnership?Did the battle over Tax reveal a deeper economic conflict?Did global leadership move too far, too fast?Did changing market conditions destroy the financial case?Or was the project doomed by the very partnership structure it was designed to transform?This book goes beyond the headline of a failed corporate breakup to examine how Everest was conceived, how the internal battle unfolded, why the project ultimately failed, and what EY was left with afterward.At its heart, this is not simply a story about EY.It is a story about ambition, money, power, governance and the limits of organizational change.Because sometimes the hardest part of transforming a company isn't knowing where you want to go.It's getting everyone who owns the company to agree on the destination.PROJECT EVERESTAmbition. Conflict. Failure. The $600 Million Lesson.By William ShannonFor readers interested in corporate strategy, business leadership, consulting, professional services, M&A, organizational politics-and spectacular corporate bets that don't go according to plan.
