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April 19, 2023
Growth, Leadership, Thought Leadership, What If?

Capability, compatibility, and copability – what matters most?

Capability may have gotten you the role, copability will decide your success. And copability is a function of compatibility.

Kevin McKenzie
March 13, 2023
Leadership, Team Building, What If?

Excellence, Experience, and Endurance and Winning the Long Game

In an uncertain and complex operating environment, organizations are challenged to meet short term expectations while trying to be purpose-driven and stakeholder focused.

Kevin McKenzie
February 21, 2023
Change, Disruption, Growth, What If?

Promise, performance, or peril? AI to the forefront

The nature of work will shift again, and we will need strong leadership to bring context and perspective to what we do to create meaningful stakeholder experiences.

Kevin McKenzie
January 5, 2023
Business, Change, Innovation, What If?

Transition, transformation, and transcendence: what are you leading?

If there is one thing boards, CEOs, and leaders all agree on, it’s status quo is not a viable option.

Kevin McKenzie
September 26, 2022
Communication, Team Building, What If?

What is a meaningful conversation?

We need meaningful conversations to better understand what makes a meaningful work experience.

Kevin McKenzie
March 23, 2022
Leadership, Talent, Team Building, What If?

Meaningful work, relationships, recognition, and the people experience

Virtually everyone I speak with expresses concern and frustration over losing key people they are trying to retain or hire, and the increasing costs of both.

Kevin McKenzie
February 24, 2022
Change, Growth, What If?

Productivity, Creativity, Connectivity and Trade-offs

Increased productivity has also come at the expense of creativity.

Kevin McKenzie
December 22, 2021
Business, Change, Innovation, What If?

Performance, growth, and learning cultures and questions to ponder

As the world and our operating environment continue to evolve, one constant is people’s desire for meaningful work and meaningful relationships, aligned with a sense of purpose. The more we embrace learning in its full sense, the more meaning we can create.

Kevin McKenzie
November 10, 2021
Business, Leadership, What If?

Friction, constraints, vulnerability, and horizontal thinking

We are in a unique moment in history, and we have a unique opportunity do something extraordinary.

Kevin McKenzie
February 19, 2021
Leadership, Team Building, What If?

Consensus, Collaboration, and Coordination

We often confuse collaboration with consensus, and collaboration gets a bad rap for it.

Kevin McKenzie
December 18, 2020
Disruption, Innovation, Leadership, What If?

What if 2020 was a gift?

Life will be different going forward, but different can be better.

Kevin McKenzie
October 12, 2020
Change, Collaboration, Growth, Innovation, What If?

What if?…

Perhaps it’s time we challenge ourselves with some big what if questions and explore possibilities we might not have entertained before the crisis.

Kevin McKenzie
September 9, 2020
Business, Leadership, Thought Leadership, What If?

Let’s stop “shoulding”​ on each other

When we tell people what they should do when they’re in an emotional state, it usually reaps an unintended reward and rarely creates meaningful action.

Kevin McKenzie
August 4, 2020
Disruption, Leadership, Thought Leadership, What If?

Leadership in the age of algorithm

Large corporations are in a race to digitize their business models through automation and the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML).

Kevin McKenzie
July 15, 2020
Change, Innovation, Leadership, Talent, What If?

3 Ps of Leadership: Purpose, Passion and Persistence

Years ago, we learned that price, place and promotion are the 3 Ps core to market success. But what if all this time we’ve been focusing on the wrong Ps?

Kevin McKenzie
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“What If Curiosity Mattered More Than Competence?”

“What keeps you relevant isn’t what you’ve mastered, it’s how quickly you’re willing to unlearn and relearn.” What if the biggest threat to your leadership grow

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