The professional values you will find here ensure that McKinsey continuously becomes a stronger firm.

You will find these values guiding our work and our decisions because they have been deeply rooted in our culture for more than eighty years.

Your success at McKinsey will depend on two things—leadership and impact—which are rooted in the McKinsey mission:

To help leaders make distinctive, lasting, and substantial improvements in performance, and constantly build a great firm that attracts, develops, excites, and retains exceptional people.

We believe in professionalism. For us this means we always:

	Put the client's interest ahead of our own. This means we deliver more value than expected. It doesn't mean doing whatever the client asks.
	Uphold absolute integrity. Show respect to local custom and culture, as long as we don't compromise our integrity. Keep our client information confidential. We don't reveal sensitive information. We don't promote our own good work. We focus on making our clients successful.
	Tell the truth as we see it. We stay independent and able to disagree, regardless of the popularity of our views or their effect on our fees.
	Deliver the best of our firm to every client as cost-effectively as we can. We expect that our people spend clients' and the firm's resources as if their own resources were at stake.