Working Through People Because I Am Lazy

Kevin Lang is the Director of Operations and a partner at URGEO. Kevin is a 25+ year entrepreneurial veteran. Kevin has developed and sold multiple businesses holding deep experience in industrial manufacturing and processing and strong team development. As a 14-year member of EO, including sitting on the Regional Canadian Board, he is a seasoned and sought-after expert in EOS implementation with a wide scope of entrepreneurial businesses. Kevin also continues to develop a real estate investment portfolio of single-family homes, condos, and industrial buildings.

Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:

  • Kevin’s 20-year career in the manufacturing business and why he left

  • How remote work enabled Kevin to become a better leader

  • Why Kevin considers himself less of a doer and more inclined to work through people

  • What Kevin and Martin identify as each other’s strengths

  • What prompted Kevin’s move to Vancouver

  • Kevin’s advice regarding perfectionism

  • What Martin identifies as the four cardinal rules of leadership

  • Why a high EQ, emotional intelligence, aids Kevin in listening and management success

  • The book that Kevin finds so useful, he has taught pieces of it to his children

  • Kevin’s views on positive capitalism and how profit can be maintained with dignity and grace

In this episode…

Kevin Lang grew up in Edmonton, Alberta and moved to Vancouver in 2010. After 20 years managing the business he took over from his parents, 3 years running an entirely different business on his own, and traveling the world after that, he met Martin in 2021 and through that meeting and interview became part of URGEO.

Kevin and Martin realized they had similar mindsets and complementary skills that would work well together in a business environment. Kevin has an innate ability to keep to scheduling timetables, to stay on track, and resilience in how he works. Kevin shares what he has learned about managing through people as his career has unfolded and part of it has to do with allowing people to learn and grow.

In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter and guest Kevin Lang discuss the nuances of leadership. Kevin maintains that there is no failure if you lead people correctly: if you manage risk and allow people to grow on their own - and to have room to fail - then failure becomes fundamental to success. They talk about Martin’s four cardinal rules of leadership, Kevin’s identification of the value of emotional intelligence, how to work in ways that serve you, and Kevin’s passions in life which, besides leadership, include parenting. The insights found in this episode are not to be missed.

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