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2013-04-29 08:48:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Adaptability audio book - 100% free (as part of free trial)

2013-04-10 22:49:41 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

How do better ideas fight for superiority?

2013-04-08 20:51:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

How to transform a strategic gap into a strategic stretch?

2013-04-08 12:51:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"We are all capable of high adaptability. To be human is, in a pretty fundamental way, to try and shape the future."

2013-04-04 21:01:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My latest on HACK organizations with a High Adaptability (Killer) Culture...

2013-03-29 15:15:04 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

11 Principles for Stronger (Smarter) Strategy...

2013-03-19 09:35:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Neural Plasticity and How Better Ideas Compete... (Have a Listen)

2013-03-24 11:06:44 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 1 +1s)

Praised be the unacceptably wise, for they will be called architects of the future...

2013-03-15 21:09:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Strategy must work in the real world..."

2013-03-14 15:25:15 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Backed by solid research and references, McKeown provides a common-sense guide to adapting beyond the point of mere survival. He believes that when people can’t grow, societies can’t grow."

2013-03-06 20:09:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Skip Prichard interviews me about strategy, innovation and how to shape the future...

2013-03-05 12:11:33 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 1 +1s)

What Are The Hardest Three Words?

Different managers (and people more generally) have different phrases that they find hardest to say and they vary according to the interplay between situation and personality.

Some managers find it easy to say “I don’t know” when asked questions by team members because they don’t care enough to find answers or can’t be bothered to make the effort to say the words or think of an answer even if they know enough to do so. There are other managers who, as this blog post points out, have to be seen to be all knowing at all times just as there are managers who struggle to say “Am I wrong?”, “I need help” , “Thanks for that”, “Life comes first” or “That is cool!”

There are those who cannot say “I feel awful” and others who do nothing but complain. There are many who say “Will this work?” but some whocannot say “Why not try?”. It's e... more »

2013-03-03 05:45:56 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

To Best (From Worst) Via Yes

It's easier to move from worst to better by deciding to move from worst to best - that's because it's less complicated to make decisions about getting to best, it's more motivational for the people who work with you, and it's more powerful to harness the potential in saying yes (to best) than to keep trying to be mediocre, okay, a little bit better than the rest, or give people only what they pay for and not what they really want. Human systems have human natures, which is why we need human systems capable of human warmth and human service rather than fake smiles tacked onto robotic, cold, rationally illogical systems with no heart and no mind. 

(This video is based on work by Max Mckeown published in his various books including The Strategy Book, Adaptability, Unshrink, and The Truth About Innovation).

2013-03-03 05:46:56 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Progress Needs Beautiful (Absurd) Ideas

If something works then you’re doing something right. If something isn't working then you’re doing something wrong – and it’s usually based on a wrong idea. Progress depends on better ideas but at the time that those ideas are first thought – or shared – a potentially beautiful idea may still be unpopular, viewed as ugly, pointless, unworkable, unacceptable, or plain crazy. It was Einstein who said to a colleague that if an idea wasn't absurd there was no hope for it, and Niels Bohr, an equally brilliant physicist from Denmark who remarked that many ideas are insufficiently crazy to be true. 

What is true for those working on theories grand enough to explain the universe is equally true for improving life on earth. Ideas often have to seem laughable, absurd and, above all, unrealistic for them to have any hope ofmaking a differe... more »

2013-02-25 09:14:35 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"More is accomplished when the people doing the work love the strategy that guides the work." ~ The Strategy Book

2013-02-15 10:09:08 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"His goal is to teach people how to win, rather than stagnate in a desultory competition..." 

2013-02-09 01:47:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Great News! Adaptability Nominated for the Small Business Book Awards 2013. Please take a look and vote for Adaptability if you've loved it or found any of my books useful! 

2013-01-29 12:38:03 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Check out this 30 sec video trailer for The Strategy Book on YouTube:

2013-01-22 09:34:32 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Adaptability, one of my books, has just been released as an audio book! Check it out - I've bought it and it's well worth a listen ;)

2012-12-25 12:26:08 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Strategy is about shaping the future...." ~ Max Mckeown

2012-12-21 15:31:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2012-12-15 01:11:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

How Best To Shape The Future? :: Max Mckeown, Author of The Strategy Book, Adaptability & The Truth About Innovation. 

2012-11-12 12:11:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"In life, there are WTF moments..." ~ Max Mckeown

2012-11-02 11:08:57 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I know I'm begging it, but I'd like more votes than Cialdini...

2012-11-01 19:28:16 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

If enjoy my work, why not vote for The Strategy Book in the Book of the Year contest?

2012-10-09 09:14:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Creative obsession is the root of all progress"

2012-10-01 11:29:42 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Nothing more important that you'll read this year or next" - Review of Adaptability

2012-10-01 11:25:45 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"One of the three most important books on strategy..." - Robert Morris

2012-10-01 11:23:58 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Read this (free) version of Unshrink: Powerful Lessons for 21st Century Leadership

2012-09-17 06:59:50 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Strategy is about shaping the future. They are five basic (powerful questions) strategy tries to answer...

2012-05-10 15:49:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Can One Book Cover all Strategy?

2012-04-20 15:17:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

What is Adaptability, my new book, all about?

2012-03-16 21:07:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Collection of quotes about adaptability collected by Max Mckeown... (music by Victor Johnson http://victorjohnson.bandcamp.com/track/adaptability)

2012-02-21 01:02:01 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

The Art of Winning... (excerpt from my next book)

2012-02-16 11:25:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

"Adaptability is the most important human trait."

2012-02-08 16:46:05 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"Strategic thinking is difference between leaders and managers" (audio)

2012-01-10 19:33:09 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Audio introduction to The Strategy Book...

2012-01-10 12:34:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

New review of The Strategy Book...

2011-10-07 17:58:49 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Strategy is about shaping the future. But planning doesn’t always work in the real world. That’s the reason for this book – to help you to use strategy to figure out what to do now to get what you really want later.

There are strategy tools and processes that can help – but the real heart of strategy is the strategist. It’s what you know, how you think, and how you get people to care enough about what you are doing to achieve your goals.

It’s also about setting in motion the sequence of events that will shape the future in a way that you like. The more you understand the people who make events happen and the connections between what they do and those events, the smarter you are.

You have already used strategy to get a lot of what you have. You got a job. Or you got an education to get a job. You might have saved money for a holiday or a home. Maybe you romancedyour partne... more »

2011-10-06 01:04:12 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true."

Steve Jobs (1955-2011)

2011-09-30 15:08:04 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Wow....very few videos make me emotional, but this one did. Raw, powerful human emotion is simply amazing.

Thank you +Leslie Poston for sharing this.

2011-09-22 09:36:16 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

If you need to know what to read next, here are three suggestions for you:
Paul Gilding's The Great Disruption
http://paulgilding.com/the-great-disruption
Thomas Friedman's That Used to Be Us
http://www.amazon.com/That-Used-Be-Us-Invented/dp/0374288909/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316681919&sr=1-1
Tyler Cowen's The Great Stagnation
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Stagnation-America-Low-Hanging-Eventually/dp/0525952713/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1316681973&sr=1-1

+John Hagel 's post invites us all the be both more aware & more rigorous.
Here is my comment to his post:

John,
Really eloquent review. I was lucky enough to interview Friedman when The World Is Flat came out
http://tcollins.hipcast.com/download/7872866e-0a28-24bb-9aed-b39e3650bfd0.mp3

My favorite part of the interview was... more »

2011-09-01 16:40:26 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Draft excerpt from one of my new books...

2011-08-30 18:39:02 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Worth remembering: You can get to everywhere from anywhere. #leadership #life

2011-08-12 17:54:28 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

People Judge You First, Then Your Idea...

2011-07-29 21:33:59 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

More 3D Magic...

2011-07-29 21:09:44 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

2011-07-12 12:55:20 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Photos of Max Mckeown Speaking