Consulting Stints Can Actually Aid CEOs

It has been 30 years since Robert Kidder worked at McKinsey & Co., but he still describes that early career experience as "life-defining." His stint as a management consultant taught him a style of logical thinking that proved invaluable in later jobs as chief executive of Duracell and Borden Chemical, he says. Maybe it is time to let go of the jokes portraying consultants as glib,...