The Last Monarchy: The Inevitable Fall of Hierarchy and the Birth of the Intelligent Organization

Palo Alto Research Center (formerly known as Xerox PARC) is ground zero for innovations in technology that characterize modern life (it's where the computer mouse was invented). They have a number of free lecture series very much worth going to. It's just over an hour from Mills, very straightforward drive.

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DATE: Thursday, March 3

TIME: The talk will take place from 6:00-7:00pm, with networking (including light refreshments) beginning at 5:30

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WHO: Greg McKeown, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author

WHAT: The Last Monarchy: The Inevitable Fall of Hierarchy and the Birth of the Intelligent Organization

How smart is your team? Have you ever been on a team where the individuals were intelligent but the team was unintelligent? While each team member could solve problems and learn quickly, did the team struggle in adapting to new realities to achieve its objectives? In this talk, I will share key bottlenecks that restrict smart people from creating smart organizations, as well as five concrete strategies for creating smarter teams.

WHERE: Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), a Xerox company | 3333 Coyote Hill Road | Palo Alto | CA | 94304

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Greg McKeown is headquartered in Silicon Valley, where he works as a strategy advisor and executive coach to senior executives and their teams, as well as teaches around the world. He most recently worked with or taught groups at Apple, Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, Symantec, and Twitter. He has conducted significant research in the fields of collective intelligence, leadership, and human systems, and is the co-author of the Wall Street Journal Bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter; Harvard Business Review article, Bringing out the Best in Your People; and Ivey Business Journal article, Are You An Accidental Diminisher? Prior to this research and teaching, Greg worked for Heidrick & Struggles' GlobalLeadership Practice assessing senior executives around the world. His work included a year-long project for Mark Hurd (then CEO of Hewlett Packard) assessing the top 300 executives at HP.

Greg holds a B.S. in Journalism and an MBA from Stanford University. Originally from London, England, he now lives in Menlo Park, California with his wife, Anna, and their four children.