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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
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
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
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
Weekly Thought
May 26, 2026
What If?, Whatif? Wednesday
“What If Leadership Success Means Learning How to Strive Without Constantly Feeling Incomplete?”

“Ambition has a shadow: the feeling that no achievement is ever enough.” What if the problem isn’t your ambition—but your inability to feel content alongside it

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