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Register for Seattle’s Vistage Executive Summit – Tuesday, May 16th

By Kevin McKeown on Posted in Business Development, Leadership, Relationships, Speaking Engagements, Strategy
Driving Dynamic Decisions Executives are in the business of making decisions. Difficult decisions. Big decisions. Decisions no one else can make. Many times, there are no clear-cut answers. But there ARE make-or-break consequences. This is the world you live in. Own it. Don’t just make a decision. Optimize it. What is the Vistage Executive Summit? Helmed by … Continue Reading

Does peer group make sense? Let’s talk and decide together.

By Kevin McKeown on Posted in Leadership, Management, Organizational Development, Relationships, Strategy
What’s Vistage? It all starts with a group. Put 12-14 high performing business executives in a room and the potential is enormous. A Chair ensures that every bit of that wisdom and experience is a applied in the meeting. An expert guides the meetings. I’m a facilitator, guide and coach. I help stimulate thinking, frame issues, … Continue Reading

Leading is BEING–Not Doing. What’s Your Reality?

By Kevin McKeown on Posted in Leadership, Management, Organizational Development
Leadership is about BEING – not DOING. Yep, putting your feet on your desk and looking out your window is leading. You must make time to pause reflectively. You must make time to contemplate. You must make time to go deep. You must maintain your awareness of self and the values (and the “intolerables”) that guide you. … Continue Reading

Isolated? Hearing Echos? Find Your Decision-Making Sweet Spot

By Kevin McKeown on Posted in Leadership, Management, Organizational Development, Relationships, Social Networking, Strategy
To be a great decision-maker you must fine-tune your network. You must also carefully and continually engage in social exploration. From the HBR article, Beyond the Echo Chamber: “Decisions don’t happen in a vacuum; the best ones rarely come from deep pondering in isolation. They happen when people learn from and draw on the experiences of others. In this … Continue Reading

Living and Leading in the Perpetual Discomfort Zone…

By Kevin McKeown on Posted in Leadership, Management, Organizational Development, Satire or Humor, Strategy
I love this quote from Francisco D’Souza, CEO of Cognizant Technology Solutions: In business, the comfort zone has never been a good place to be. Companies that get too comfortable risk becoming irrelevant, obsolete—and extinct. This is particularly true in today’s business world where the forces of globalization; new social, mobile, analytical and cloud technologies; and fast-changing … Continue Reading

Genius is Purposeful. How Leaders Deliver Extraordinary Results…

By Kevin McKeown on Posted in Leadership, Management, Strategy
Curious about an ongoing study of the mindsets of business leaders when delivering their most extraordinary results?  What is the mindset that shows up when CEOs are at their most effective? Of the eight mindsets identified, the “Purposeful” theme is exhibited by 82% of the leaders. This mindset is especially important to a sense of personal power … Continue Reading

New Leader? Be Smart About Your “Transition to Impact”

By Kevin McKeown on Posted in Leadership, Management, Organizational Development
I had my head down developing international business opportunities for Mitsubishi International Corporation. I was in London meeting with my Tokyo counterpart assessing a virtual reality gaming company. After a long day, we needed some dinner. Over drinks, he shared some unexpected news. He was leaving Mitsubishi after 20 years to help diversify a smaller Japanese company. Part … Continue Reading
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