Becoming a Successful CEO With Kevin Modany.
Kevin Modany is the leading executive at BlueRock Partners, where he leverages decades of industry experience to better help his clients and colleagues prosper financially. Modany attended Robert Morris University in 1989, where he graduated with his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting and Finance.
Now a seasoned leader with years of experience in the management and consultancy field, Kevin Modany has taken time out of his day to help share and outline the key traits that have benefited his career. Looking back on his successes as well as his mistakes, Modany underscored the core traits that every successful CEO should embody.
Communicating For Success
As the leader of a company, CEOs must be ready and willing to pass their message along when the timing is right. A Chief Executive Officer will serve as the voice of the company, and that means they must speak with strength as well as clarity. CEOs should not just act as microphones, blasting their voice to the workforce – they should also be receptive to hearing people speak back to them.
Kevin Modany says, “If you ask me a question, you’ve got to be careful because I will give you an answer.”
Modany went on to say, “I don’t believe in anything other than being honest and forthright. Sometimes it’s painful, but you’ve got to be truthful.”
By keeping his communication clear and his words honest, Modany can cut to the point with every conversation.
Setting the Tone as a Collaborator
While it might be easy to look at the CEO as someone who makes decisions and doles out orders, that isn’t all there is to the position. Kevin Modany suggests that leading executives will bring a ‘win-win’ mindset to their time at the office, allowing others to flourish in more collaborative roles.
Kevin Modany says of the collaborative mindset he has, “The objective of a leader should be to get the people motivated that they want to run through a wall for you.”
Creating an environment where individuals feel free to collaborate, disagree, and communicate will be conducive to success in the long run.
Lean on the Data When You Have It
Finally, Kevin Modany suggests that it is important to lean on the precision of data-driven analytics when they are made available to you. CEOs can gather and analyze data on a regional or national level to help create marketing campaigns that lead to quantitative results.
Modany says of his reliance on data, “I use this analogy: Let’s say I had an executive VP come to me with an idea or an initiative, and it was anecdotally based. At the same time, the janitor walked in and had a statistically valid business case with empirical data that supported the argument. I’m going with the janitor.”
Modany went on to say,” It’s really good to start with the data.”