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Waking Up McKinsey
TODAY, FRED GLUCK LIVES in one of the larger houses—8,667 square feet—in Santa Barbara. To reach it, you drive up a private road, check in with the staff on an intercom, wait as the twenty-foot-tall electric gates swing open, and then proceed up the palm-lined drive. At night, specially trained German shepherds patrol the grounds; not too many years ago, Fred and his wife awoke to find two robbers in their bedroom, each holding a gun to their respective heads. The house is named Casa Leo Linda: statuary lions guard the front door; Fred’s third wife, Linda, is a former banking executive.
It’s quite a distance from the one-bedroom apartment in a Roman Catholic neighborhood of Brooklyn where Frederick W. Gluck grew up with ...
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