Crown Business Signs for New Book Due Spring of 2014

The team at Crown Business (an imprint for Random House) are responsible for business classics including “Execution” by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan and the more recent bestseller “Rework” by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. Greg McKeown and the [...]

Influencer Panel on LinkedIn

Greg is honored to accept the invitation to join panel of “Influencers” on LinkedIn.  Read the USA Today article about this new and exciting group.

The One Decision That Makes 1,000

Let’s start with a game. Below are three mission statements from three Fortune 500 companies. Try to match each company with its mission statement:   How did you do? The largely indistinguishable statements make the task almost impossible. Such statements [...]

World Economic Forum’s “Summer Davos”

Greg moderated a session at the World Economic Forum’s “Summer Davos” in China called, “Unpacking Social Innovation Models for Maximum Impact.” Greg also served as a panelist at the “Sharpening Your Creative Edge” working session at the Forum.

Stephen R. Covey Taught Me Not to Be Like Him – Harvard Business Review

Stephen R. Covey, the author of The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, died yesterday. In a testament to his impact, his passing was news on CNN, The Washington Post and in many other publications around the world. The comments on these obituaries include [...]

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Executive Panel at Zynga

Greg moderates a panel at Zynga during the Young Global Leaders Conference in Silicon Valley.

Can We Reverse the Stanford Prison Experiment? – Harvard Business Review

When I met for lunch with Dr. Phil Zimbardo, the former president of the American Psychological Association, I knew him primarily as the mastermind behind The Stanford Prison Experiment. In the summer of 1971, Zimbardo took healthy Stanford students, gave them roles [...]

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The Unimportance of Practically Everything

A friend of mine is the Executive Director for an organization with global reach. He is intelligent and driven, but constantly distracted. At any given time he will have Twitter, Gmail, Facebook and multiple IM conversations going. The majority of them are [...]

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Interview by Carlos Loret de Mola

The blog “The One Thing CEOs Need to Learn from Apple” by Greg McKeown has become the most discussed blog on Harvard Business Review today.

The One Thing CEOs Need to Learn from Apple – Harvard Business Review

A few weeks before Steve Jobs passed away, I was at Apple having lunch with a leader there. We revisited the well-known story of Jobs returning to an almost-bankrupt Apple. Jobs could have tried to maximize profits by squeezing every [...]

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