No Margin for Character
WiLD Thoughts, Blogs Dr. Rob McKenna WiLD Thoughts, Blogs Dr. Rob McKenna

No Margin for Character

We misunderstand and misuse the idea of character in our business culture because in business, margin drives everything. To go all business for a second, margin is the difference between a product or service’s selling price and its cost of production or to the ratio between a company’s revenues and expenses. Even if you don’t consider yourself a businessperson, that is important to understand because we, as a culture, define something’s value by its margin – by the difference between the cost we pay and the benefit we get.

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You Can’t Manufacture Trust
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You Can’t Manufacture Trust

Developing trust and increasing alignment and cohesion is a meaningful goal that requires deep levels of individual and collective change. It doesn’t materialize overnight. Trust is like a muscle that with work will grow in strength and endurance, but if left neglected, will atrophy. Here are five core convictions for how we approach building real, long-term trust with executive teams.

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My Last Class Tonight…After 25 Years
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My Last Class Tonight…After 25 Years

This moment is a chance to pause, and reflect on my lessons regarding teaching after all these years. To be honest, beyond my students, I have only had one or two mentoring voices speak deeply into my teaching. So, if any of my thoughts encourage even one aspiring teacher, that would be enough. Here is top my 10 list of lessons, in the hours before I teach my last class as a full time Professor. I don’t have all these perfected, but this is what I would have told my younger self.

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Whole Leaders in an Emotional Pandemic
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Whole Leaders in an Emotional Pandemic

A new reality is upon us. An opportunity - to be our best when it's a bit tougher to do so. The uncertainty of a biological pandemic is likely to impact everything we see, and a host of things we can’t. What we do see around us isn't only a need for further preparation in

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WiLD Leaders – Looking Back and Forward
Dr. Rob McKenna Dr. Rob McKenna

WiLD Leaders – Looking Back and Forward

It’s hard to believe it’s nearly a decade since we started in the business of whole and intentional leader development and a full year since Dr. Daniel Hallak joined the WiLD Leaders team as our Chief Commercial Officer. As you may know by now, our mission has been to invest in the development and preparation of this generation of courageous and sacrificial leaders – and not just to talk about it as a good idea – but to provide an intentional pathway to their whole and intentional development through the WiLD Toolkit. It’s been a busy and unbelievably fulfilling year. So, here is a quick review of our year, lessons we’ve learned, and what’s just around the corner for WiLD Leaders.

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