Brian 'BK' Kent, PhD, NACD.DC

There's a particular kind of rest you get when there's nothing in your business you're hoping nobody looks into. I had a stretch in my thirties where a few things weren't clean. I blamed the workload for how tired I was. Cleaned it up. Hours didn't change. The weight did.

Yesterday the feeds were full of thank-yous. This morning everybody's back to work. The men and women I served with are still carrying it today. Same as Monday. Same as next Tuesday. If there's a veteran in your life, call them. When nobody's watching. #VeteransDay #BrianLKent

The uniform comes off. The lessons stay. Thank you to every veteran and every military family. Your service is not forgotten. #VeteransDay #ThankAVeteran #HonorOurVeterans

The most honorable people I've known weren't the most impressive on paper. A warrant officer whose career stalled through no fault of his own trained people better than anybody I've worked with since. Nothing in it for him. 🔗 course.brianlkent.com/ #TheRFactor #BrianLKent

If you only do the right thing when someone is watching, that is marketing. The real test is the error in your own favor that you fixed, or the price you honored after the market moved and you did not have to. Nobody claps for those. That is the point. #TheRFactor #BrianLKent

Your legacy is the behavior you made normal for the people who watched you work. Someone on your team will run their own company in fifteen years. How they handle a struggling employee is partly being decided by what they watch you do now.  course.brianlkent.com/ #TheRFactor

Titles get handed to you. Awards get handed to you. Honor does not work that way. The people who work with me decided years ago, based on things that were never announced anywhere. An award can confirm a reputation. It cannot create one. course.brianlkent.com/ #TheRFactor

Somebody will come after you unfairly eventually. What protects you is not your explanation. It is the twenty people who hear it and think, that does not sound like him. You cannot build those people after the attack starts. 🗓️ call-bk.com/ #BrianLKent #TheRFactor

Any company holds its standards when revenue is up. You find out what a business believes in a bad quarter. A stretched timeline. A quiet change to what the client was told. A vendor waiting sixty extra days with no call. Each one survivable. None of them free. #TheRFactor

Character does not get tested in the dramatic moments. It gets tested when you are tired. A Thursday evening, hours you could round up, a mistake you could leave buried because fixing it means a hard call. Honor has to be a default, not a decision. 🔗 course.brianlkent.com/

Noble does not mean grand. It means you hold yourself to a standard nobody is enforcing. Nobody audits whether you told the client the thing that cost you the renewal. If the standard is not yours, it does not exist. Weighing one of those? call-bk.com/ #TheRFactor

Live tonight at 8:00 PM ET. Day 2 at 10X360 is a wrap and I’m sharing what I learned. Join me on Facebook: facebook.com/profile.php?id=… #10X360 #Leadership #Strategy #BrianLKent #TheRFactor

I have never heard an honorable person describe themselves as honorable. The ones who talk most about their integrity are usually the ones you want a detailed contract with. Honor is something other people decide about you. course.brianlkent.com/ #TheRFactor #BrianLKent

In Scottsdale this week for 10X360. Tomorrow at 8:00 PM ET I’m going live on Facebook to share my top takeaways from the floor. Join me: facebook.com/profile.php?id=… #10X360 #Leadership #Strategy #BrianLKent #TheRFactor

My working definition of honor in business: what you do after you already got what you wanted. Watch how people behave before a contract is signed versus after. That is where you learn who you are really working with. course.brianlkent.com/ #Leadership #TheRFactor #BrianLKent

Thirty one days on respect comes down to two questions. Am I deserving of respect. Easy to answer generously about yourself. Do I show respect for others. You have to go ask someone who would tell you the truth. course.brianlkent.com/ #TheRFactor #BrianLKent #NothingYouKentDo

Everyone in your building got there through something you know nothing about. You are not entitled to those stories and you will not get most of them. But assuming there is one changes how you read the late reply and the flat email. course.brianlkent.com/ #TheRFactor

Your achievement ceiling is not set by your ability. It is set by how many people would put their own name next to yours. That number is knowable. Count it honestly. The R Factor is how you raise it on purpose: course.brianlkent.com/ #TheRFactor #BrianLKent #Respect

If everyone who disagrees with you is stupid or acting in bad faith, you have stopped thinking. State the other position well enough that someone who holds it would say yes, that is what I think. Most people are arguing against a version they built. #TheRFactor #BrianLKent

When a decision is close and the numbers will not break the tie, I ask one thing... Which version can I explain to the person it affects, to their face, without softening it? If I have to manage how they find out, I already know. course.brianlkent.com/ #TheRFactor #BrianLKent