Shu Hattori

Author, The McKinsey Edge

We go inside one of the world’s top consulting firms with Shu Hattori, author of The McKinsey Edge.

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Shu Hattori is an author of a global leadership book called The McKinsey Edge (McGraw-Hill Publishing), which centers around the notion that leaders can be successfully developed once the individual realizes he or she has the potential within. The success principles outlined in the book are based on his own personal experiences while at McKinsey and insights he acquired from others around him.

While at McKinsey & Company, he served in advanced industries, high-tech, and media in Asia, North America and Europe for more than five years.

Shu also co-founded Knowledge Flow, a China-Japan job portal that focuses on training and bridging IT software engineers to high-tech Japanese companies such as Hitachi and Toshiba.

From 2011 to 2012, he joined an Internet-service based venture capital and helped start-up Groupon.com in Asia, focusing on maintaining quality people and robust growth at the same time. Later, he went on to create a wedding/proposal event company, Wedding for Two, in Taipei where he was invited to talk on local TV stations and trend magazines, planning over 100 different proposals a year.

Shu earned an MBA from National Taiwan University with a full government sponsored scholarship and a bachelor’s degree in commerce with distinction from McGill University in Canada. He avidly enjoys writing and thinking. When you think more, you learn more. When you put them in writing, it becomes a reality.