Greg McKeown (author)

Greg McKeown
Greg McKeown in 2014
Born	1977 London, England, United Kingdom
Occupation	Leadership/management consultant and writer
Relatives	Max McKeown

Greg McKeown (born in London, England, in 1977) is the author of the New York times Best Seller Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, (Crown Business, April 2014).^[1] He is a business writer, consultant, and researcher specializing in leadership, strategy design, collective intelligence and human systems. He has authored or co-authored books, including the Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Harper Business, June 2010), and journal articles.^[2][3]

Originally from England, he is now an American citizen, living in Menlo Park, California. Greg holds a B.A. in Communications (with an emphasis in journalism) from Brigham Young University^[4] and an MBA from Stanford University.

The World Economic Forum inducted Greg into the Forum of Young Global Leaders. (See List of Young Global Leaders 2012^[5])

Greg is currently CEO of THIS Inc., a leadership and strategy design agency headquartered in Silicon Valley. He has taught at companies that include Apple, Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, Symantec, Twitter, and VMware. Prior to this, Greg worked for Heidrick & Struggles' Global Leadership Practice assessing senior executives around the world. His work included a project for Mark Hurd (then CEO of Hewlett Packard) assessing the top 300 executives at HP.

Greg is an active Social Innovator and currently serves as a board member for Washington D.C. policy group, Resolve, and as a mentor with 2Seeds, a non-profit incubator for agricultural projects in Africa. And he is a regular keynote speaker at non-profits groups including The Kauffman Fellows Program, St. Jude and the Minnesota Community Education Association.^[6]

Books

• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Crown Business, 2014.^[7]
• Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, Harper Business, 2010 (co-authored with Liz Wiseman).^[8]

Journal articles

• McKeown, Greg. (April 2014), "The Difference Between Successful and Very Successful People", LinkedIn Influencers. ^[9]
• McKeown, Greg. (April 2014), "One Thing Productive People Do Before Reaching for their Phones", LinkedIn Influencers. ^[10]
• McKeown, Greg. (March 2014), "Hire Slow, Fire Fast", Harvard Business Review Blog Network.. ^[11]
• McKeown, Greg. (March 2014), "The No. 1 Time Management Mistake Capable People Make", LinkedIn Influencers. ^[12]
• McKeown, Greg. (January 2014), "The Joy of Missing Out", Huffington Post. ^[13]
• McKeown, Greg. (November 2014), "Reduce Your Stress in Two Minutes a Day", Harvard Business Review Blog Network.. ^[14]
• McKeown, Greg. (November 2013), "How to Say No Gracefully", LinkedIn Influencers. ^[15]
• McKeown, Greg. (March 2013), "What Will You Create to Make the World Awesome?", Harvard Business Review Blog Network.. ^[16]
• McKeown, Greg. (December 2012), "The No. 1 Career Mistake Capable People Make", LinkedIn Influencer Network.. ^[17]
• McKeown, Greg. (May 2012), "The Unimportance of Practically Everything", Harvard Business Review Blog Network.. ^[18]
• McKeown, Greg. (April 2012), "The One Thing CEOs Need to Learn from Apple", Harvard Business Review Blog Network.. ^[19]
• McKeown, Greg. (March 2011), "Think Smart – tapping your team's intelligence", Director Magazine.Official publication of the Institute of Directors. ^[20]
• McKeown, Greg. (March 2011), "The Last Monarchy: The Inevitable Fall of Hierarchy and the Birth of the Intelligent Organization", PARC Forum. ^[21]
• McKeown, Greg. (December 2010), "Tapping your team's intelligence", European Business Review. ^[22]
• McKeown, Greg.; Wiseman, Liz. (May 2010), "Bringing Out the Best in Your People", Harvard Business Review. 
• McKeown, Greg.; Wiseman, Liz. (August 2010), "Are You An Accidental Diminisher?", Ivey Business Journal.Richard Ivey School of Business. ^[23]

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