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The new book from Grant Shih & Joe Marroquín

Leadership as it actually exists.

Executive Points of View: Understanding the Leadership Game is honest, raw, and unvarnished — a new lexicon for the situations leaders live through but rarely name.

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Inside the book

Not designed to comfort. Designed to be useful.

Born in 2020 from late-night conversations during COVID, refined through a blog and video series, and forged across decades in the C-suite, military roles, and multi-billion-dollar global enterprises. It challenges sacred cows like “win-win” and “there are no bad questions.”

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Organizational Wake

The disruption and downstream consequences leaders create when they move fast without planning for who will be impacted.

Character vs Competence

A diagnostic that separates skill gaps from integrity gaps — so you apply the right remedy instead of guessing.

Menu of Services

Expose the hidden cost of support, interruptions, and “quick asks,” and restore clarity about what teams provide.

Buying in the C-Suite

How senior leaders really evaluate ideas and vendors — and why logic rarely closes without trust, timing, and positioning.

There Are Bad Questions

A direct challenge to a comforting myth, and an argument for disciplined thinking over performative participation.

There Is No Win-Win

Mature leadership means owning trade-offs: who wins, who loses, and what it costs.

“Concepts like wake, consumption, and too many people in the room are not theories. They are practical tools, forged in boardrooms.”

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Consulting & speaking

Bring the thinking into your boardroom.

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Executive Advisory

One-on-one counsel for CEOs, boards, and leadership teams navigating transformation, governance, and hard decisions.

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Leadership Workshops

Bring the book's lexicon — wake, consumption, menu of services, the power of “no” — into your organization.

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Keynotes & Panels

Candid, practical talks that move audiences from passive listening to active ownership.

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Work is delivered through each author's own practice: Magnitude Consulting for transformation, technology and AI enablement, and StoneSight Advisory Services for cybersecurity and AI risk.

The authors

Grant Shih & Joe Marroquín

Grant Shih

Grant Shih

CEO & Managing Partner, Magnitude Consulting

A seasoned executive and keynote speaker whose career runs from fifteen years in Big Consulting into thirteen more in leadership and C-suite roles — most recently EVP & CTO of Vestis, with earlier technology leadership at Accenture, Carter's/OshKosh, and Encompass Digital Media. He delivers candid, practical content that helps teams move with purpose and deliver measurable impact, and serves on StoneSight's advisory board.

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Joe Marroquín

Joe Marroquín

Founder, StoneSight Advisory Services

A senior operating executive and board advisor with more than 25 years helping organizations execute strategy, strengthen governance, and navigate consequential change. Founding CISO of Vestis and previously CISO of Encompass Digital Media, with leadership roles at IBM, Accenture, Fujitsu, and Ernst & Young. A former U.S. Naval officer and combat veteran, he advises CEOs, boards, and PE sponsors through StoneSight.

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Advisory practices

The firms behind the thinking

Grant and Joe each lead their own practice. Executive Points of View is the platform they build together — the book, the keynotes, and the conversations in the library.

Grant Shih — CEO & Managing Partner

Magnitude Consulting LLC

Strategic consulting, advisory & speaking

Magnitude helps organizations accelerate transformation by aligning business strategy, technology, and execution — operating as a force multiplier that leaves your team stronger than it found them.

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    Strategic advisory

    Align strategy, technology, and execution so leadership decisions turn into measurable results.

  • 02

    Transformation delivery

    Enterprise transformation, operational efficiency, and AI-powered business solutions, delivered pragmatically.

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    Keynotes & leadership sessions

    Candid, practical talks designed to move people from passive listening to active ownership.

Focus areas

  • Enterprise Transformation
  • Technology Enablement
  • AI-Powered Solutions
  • Operational Efficiency
  • Leadership Development
magnitude.website →A force multiplier on tangible results.

Joe Marroquín — Founder

StoneSight Advisory Services

Independent cybersecurity & AI risk advisory

StoneSight brings independent executive judgment to the gap between the risk you believe you are taking and the exposure your business actually carries.

  • 01

    Transaction confidence

    M&A cyber due diligence and post-merger assessment — know the exposure before the deal closes.

  • 02

    Independent scrutiny

    CISO-led healthchecks and executive tabletop exercises that test whether your program is aimed at the right risks.

  • 03

    Leadership & implementation

    vCISO and executive advisory, plus the core security foundations your business actually needs.

Industries served

  • Energy & Utilities
  • Manufacturing & Industrial
  • Retail, Distribution & Logistics
  • Financial Services
  • Healthcare
  • Media & Entertainment
  • Defense & Aerospace
  • Technology & Software
stonesightadvisory.com →See clearly. Decide confidently.

Magnitude Consulting LLC and StoneSight Advisory Services are separately owned and operated firms. Executive Points of View is the joint platform of Grant Shih and Joe Marroquín; engagements are delivered by each firm under its own agreements.

Reference library

Watch the conversations.

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Leadership

Organizational Consumption and Wake

Leadership

Character versus Competence

Leadership

Your Energy Defines Your Intent

Strategy

Buying in the C-Suite

Ready to confront reality as it is — not as it's marketed?

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