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Episode 023: Leadership Development and Agility with Greg McCann

April 4, 2018

In this episode, Greg McCann of McCann & Associates and I dive into the family enterprise model, vertical leadership development, and leadership agility. Greg worked in his family’s business for a number of years before teaching at Stetson University and starting their Family Enterprise Center. In addition to teaching, Greg has worked as a family enterprise consultant for nearly two decades.

In this podcast, Greg gives us a mini-course on the four leadership agilities, which include self-awareness, empathy, framing, and innovation. We discuss the six stages that leaders go through, which run along a continuum from efficient to effective. Greg also shared with us that leaders at the top of the scale (the most effective) tend to do three things daily:

  1. They have a reflective or meditative practice
  2. They exercise
  3. They have a creative practice outside of work. (Cool thing about Greg: His creative practice outside of work is gift giving!)

Topics discussed in this episode:

  • Meet Greg (1:14)
  • Today’s global pressure on family businesses (5:45)
  • Turning challenges to opportunities (10:14)
  • Family enterprise mindset model (13:03)
  • The who (18:05)
  • 4 agilities and leadership stages (20:04)
  • How to move through the leadership stages (27:35)
  • Why this model for a family? (31:18)
  • Two types of innovation (35:38)
  • Resources and how to find Greg (39:19)
  • Bonus questions (40:35)

Guest Bio:

Greg McCann is the founder, principal and leader of an international family enterprise consulting firm that create workshops, consults, publishes, and innovates on issues of importance to family enterprises.

As a thought leader, author, coach, consultant and speaker, he works with family enterprises in the areas of leadership development, transitions, communication & conflict resolution, and with a special emphasis on helping the next generation succeed in their careers and lives.

Greg has coached leaders for nearly 20 years and is not only a graduate of Coach U, but also certified in Leadership Agility and Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.

Notable & Quotable:

Intimacy is being lost. In response, I ask how do people become available to themselves and the other people in their lives? —Greg McCann #successfulgenerations


If you are not developing the leadership capacity of your family, you are putting them in unnecessary risk. —Greg McCann #successfulgenerations


We’re really good at running our businesses, but not so good at anticipating change. How do we pivot and see the next thing coming? —Greg McCann #successfulgenerations


Imagine saying, ‘I want to get in shape, so once a year I go away with my family and hear a fitness expert speak.’  That doesn’t work. —Greg McCann #successfulgenerations


In a family business you’re putting your main relationships and the majority of your wealth at risk. Doing that casually is too much of a risk. —Greg McCann #successfulgenerations


Resources mentioned in this episode:

McCann and Associates

Family Enterprise Center at Stetson University

When Your Parents Sign the Paychecks: Finding Success Inside or Outside the Family Enterprise by Greg McCann

Who Do You Think You Are? By Greg McCann

MUST-HAVE Handout – Leadership Agility and Vertical Leadership Development

14 Ways to Cultivate Highly Conscious Leadership

Family Firm Institute Goodman Study

John Ward

Bill Joiner’s Leadership Agility

Vertical Leadership Development from Nick Petrie Center for Creative Leadership

Jay Hughes

Myths and Mortals:Family Business Leadership and Succession Planning by Andrew Keyt

Joe Astrachan of Kennesaw State University

Jill Shipley of Abbot Downing

 

 

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Want more of Successful Generations? Check out our other episodes: 

Episode 022: Getting Started in Philanthropy with Colleen Mitchell
Episode 021: Taking Over the Family Business with Mitchell Kaneff
Episode 020: Women and Wealth w/ Adrienne Penta
Episode 019: The Allyn Family 2.0, Part 2
Episode 018: The Welch Allyn Family Business Story with Eric Allyn (4th Gen), Part 1
Episode 017: Achieving Your Goals through MasterMind and Peer Groups
Episode 016: Reframing Limiting Beliefs with Ellie Frey Zagel
Episode 015: Beyond the Piggy Bank with Father, Author, and Entrepreneur Clint Greenleaf
Episode 014: More Awareness and Less Stress through Yoga
Episode 013: Raising Children to be Amazing Business Owners with Paige Cornetet
Episode 012: Generous Genes with Susan Crites Price
Episode 011: Digging into the Family Business Landscape with Daniel Van Der Vliet
Episode 010: 10 Things My Family Did to Engage us in Family Philanthropy
Episode 009: Stress Management and Holistic Health with Cynthia Damaskos
Episode 008: Family, Fights and Ferry Tales with Chris Shepler
Episode 007: Raising Financially Responsible Kids Through the Holidays (and Beyond)
Episode 006: Join the Philanthropic Revolution with Michael Moody
Episode 005: Estate Planning 101 aka Estate Planning is Not Optional with Susan Gell Meyers 
Episode 004: Ginny Esposito – Engaging your Family in Family Philanthropy
Episode 003: Leadership, Wellness, and Concierge Medicine with Dr. Bill Baer
Episode 002: Douglas D Box, Texas Patriarch – A Legacy Lost
Episode 001: About Your Host Ellie Frey Zagel

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Ellie Frey Zagel

Ellie Frey Zagel is 3rd Generation, Vice Chair and Trustee of her family’s foundation the Frey Foundation based in Grand Rapids, MI. For nearly a decade she has been deeply involved in working with the next generation of family business, family philanthropy, and family wealth, first as Director of the Family Business Alliance and now as President of Successful Generations, a company she recently founded.

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