You can't mobilize people and connect with them authentically when they can't see the true you. — Kevin Allen Mobilize Copy Share Image
Survival in the demand economy depends on and requires experimentation, risk taking, and trial and error. — Kevin Allen Demand Copy Share Image
What can be seeds of destruction can also be seeds of greatness. — Kevin Allen Destruction Copy Share Image
As I was coming up in business, screwing up was not an option in any form. — Kevin Allen Business Copy Share Image
As a sensitive and highly intuitive person in the command-and-control corporate world, I always felt miscast. — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
As buoyancy is not contrary to other characteristics of leadership, including decisiveness, accountability and performance standards, I don't ever think it can… — Kevin Allen Accountability Copy Share Image
Once you demonstrate to your team that you put them on the same plane of priority as yourself, you will create an… — Kevin Allen Culture Copy Share Image
I believe that the establishment of a real ambition, a powerfully galvanizing and exciting vision of what a group is setting out… — Kevin Allen Ambition Copy Share Image
One of my great mistakes coming up, since I was a kid from wrong side of the tracks, and fearful that I… — Kevin Allen Failure Copy Share Image
Once you reach people on an authentic emotional level, they will reward your faith in them with their belief in you, and… — Kevin Allen Authenticity Copy Share Image
True buoyant leaders can never communicate in percentage points, or charts and figures. First and foremost, they must be storytellers, communicating with… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
When your people have determined that you understand their lies in their hearts and are dedicated to their functional wellbeing, they will… — Kevin Allen Dedicated Copy Share Image
Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent... his ability… — Kevin Allen Ability Copy Share Image
For so long, companies were run using a command-and-control, 'top down' hierarchical method that involved dictating down the command chain and maintaining… — Kevin Allen Advancement Copy Share Image
Leadership is not about sitting and presiding, it's about a going somewhere. To be buoyant, you must not only ignite passion around… — Kevin Allen Adventure Copy Share Image
The secret is to be prepared, to draw on the strengths of the people around you, and most importantly, to instill confidence… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
Buoyant leadership is not a management technique, it's a leadership principle based on the belief that leading isn't presiding, it's taking people… — Kevin Allen Belief Copy Share Image
Maintaining patience, being generous, and helping your peers takes time, and no small amount of emotional fortitude. But it brings an exponential… — Kevin Allen Ability Copy Share Image
It is so easy to "calibrate" -that is, given the pressures on a smaller company to redefine in less ambitious terms- that… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
At the end of the day it's really easy to be a great leader when things are going well. The real test,… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
Change management is kind of a weird concept to me. We can' t control events any more than we can control the… — Kevin Allen Change Copy Share Image
All buoyant leaders are driven by a real ambition- that is, what is being created that didn't exist before- and one criteria… — Kevin Allen Ambition Copy Share Image
Mr. Churchill connected truly to what was in the hearts of the British people, which is what a buoyant leader does. One… — Kevin Allen British Copy Share Image
The phrases and language used everyday in an organization can in fact affect the way your team makes decisions and conducts themselves. — Kevin Allen Decision Copy Share Image
First, define your credo- the belief system of the organization. Secondly, define your real ambition, or where do you want to go… — Kevin Allen Ambition Copy Share Image
What I've come to realize is that emotional intelligence, which I define as buoyancy, was the only way I knew how to… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
Buoyancy is a phenomenon whereby, as a leader, you float because the people you inspired believe that you should, because you've truly… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
My grandfather used to say to me when I was a boy, "Getting knocked down is no big prize - it's getting… — Kevin Allen Copy Share Image
Inevitably in my career of 35 years, I was in one turnaround circumstance after another, and I was personally put in positions… — Kevin Allen Authority Copy Share Image
