Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan How Top CEOs Stay Relevant, Resilient, and Ready for What's Next with McKinsey's Senior Partner
Nov 24, 2025
Join Kurt Strovink, Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company and author of A CEO for All Seasons, as he unpacks the cyclical nature of leadership. Drawing insights from 200 top CEOs, he introduces the four seasons of leadership: stepping up, starting strong, staying ahead, and sending it forward. Strovink emphasizes the importance of resilience, servant leadership, and cognitive diversity in decision-making. He also shares strategies to combat complacency and build enduring leadership factories that thrive through change.
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Prepare Intentionally Before You Step Up
- Before taking a top role, gut-check your motivations and family readiness and build a clear thesis for how you can create impact.
- Develop a learning plan to shore up weak skills and act like a CEO-in-waiting by forming a view of the company's future.
High Performers Avoid Sophomore Slumps
- Top CEOs sustain performance across seasons rather than suffering a sophomore slump because they learn and adapt faster.
- High performers show consistent resilience and continuous renewal throughout their tenure.
Integration Over Work-Life Separation
- CEO life blends work and family rather than neatly separating them, and energy management matters more than time management.
- Loneliness and the 'intersection of contradictions' make reflection spaces and self-governance essential.
