McKinsey removed Chris Bradley, one of a handful of Global Institute directors, from his leadership roles over deleted LinkedIn posts. The reporting shows one case and no published standard, a thin base for a firm-wide rule on partners' posts.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder 8%
- Operator
- Operator 50%
- Investor
- Investor 42%
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives55
- Confidence60
US employers face a decade of 770,000 occupation switches a year, McKinsey projects
McKinsey projects that 770,000 US workers a year will need to cross occupational lines for at least a decade, 3.6 times the historical rate. COVID's comparable surge lasted a year or two, so retraining and internal mobility become a recurring cost for employers, states and workers.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives50
- Confidence35
Backbase has made Conversational Banking generally available, letting AI agents carry out account actions within limits each bank sets. Banks can start with a few use cases and keep their apps. Any in-house build now competes with a product live at more than ten lenders.
Reality
- Evidence35
- Adoption45
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives80
- Confidence60
McKinsey Global Institute's base case has about 11 million US workers leaving their occupations by 2035 because of AI and automation. The cost of that shift will be paid in training and relocation, since most of the growing jobs require a credential and cannot be done remotely.
Perspective Coverage
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- Builder
- Builder 10%
- Operator
- Operator 62%
- Investor
- Investor 28%
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives
- Not scored
- Confidence60
McKinsey puts one agent task's run-to-run cost spread at 30 times
Per-unit intelligence has kept getting cheaper since GPT-4 shipped in 2023, and enterprise AI bills have kept climbing anyway. Two McKinsey senior partners spent a Tuesday session on why consumption and vendor margins explain it.
Reality
- Evidence45
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives70
- Confidence50
McKinsey survey finds just 6% of companies report significant impact from AI so far
A Fortune essay by the authors of the forthcoming When Machines Act argues that the pacing fight misreads how AI reaches the economy. The survey lines it cites put the clock in enterprise data.
Reality
- Evidence32
- Adoption22
- Hype gap+18
- Incentives62
- Confidence36
McKinsey partners time a corporate venture's first $10m at 31 months
Successful new ventures reach $10 million of revenue in 31 months on the partners' numbers, down from 38, and break even on 40% less capital. The shorter clock accounts for under half of that saving.
Reality
- Evidence20
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives80
- Confidence42
Lean In's own survey splits the promotion gap between the manager and the home
Sheryl Sandberg says women with equal career motivation are opting out for lack of sponsorship and support, and the 2025 Lean In data hands managers only the part of that problem they can fix themselves.
Reality
- Evidence46
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives72
- Confidence58
A Fed note reports AI adoption at 18 percent, 78 percent and 41 percent of the same economy
The three figures count firms, employment and individual workers, and the Census Bureau declared its own earlier adoption numbers incomparable after one clause in the question changed. Boards borrow such numbers to set targets.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives60
- Confidence52
buildOne report1 publisher An AI ROI ledger charges review time and rework to the same account as tokens
McKinsey's August 2026 survey leaves 43 points between the people who feel faster and the firms that can find the money in EBIT, and because both halves are self-reported it cannot tell you which side is failing.
Reality
- Evidence52
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+8
- Incentives40
- Confidence45
Power procurement now sets the calendar for AI compute
US data centres drew about 25GW in 2024, and BloombergNEF has them at 106GW by 2035. On that arithmetic, the question for anyone planning a cluster is when the megawatts arrive, not when the GPUs ship.
Reality
- Evidence58
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+24
- Incentives45
- Confidence47
Hong Kong is opening private markets to retail before the plumbing is built
A June SFC proposal would widen retail access to a pool McKinsey sizes at about US$100 billion. The binding constraint is reporting, liquidity and the intermediaries who must explain both.
Reality
- Evidence34
- Adoption28
- Hype gap+27
- Incentives74
- Confidence41
McKinsey puts $3.2trn on worker health, which makes it a capacity question, not a benefits one
The McKinsey Health Institute says scaling interventions that already work is worth 19 million healthy life-years and about $3.2 trillion. The payback horizon is a lifetime, not a fiscal year.
Reality
- Evidence22
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+48
- Incentives78
- Confidence34