KEI Keithley Instruments, Inc.

EDN.com, the online home of Electronic News, EDN, and Electronic Business magazines, has begun publishing a monthly blog written by Larry Pendergrass, vice president of new product development at Keithley Instruments, Inc. (NYSE:KEI), a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems. Pendergrass will contribute his views on a variety of issues related to new product development leadership, including general leadership, innovation, strategy development, and execution. Pendergrass’s blog is available online at: http://www.edn.com/blog/Product_Development_Leadership/.

Pendergrass’s first blog posting discusses the “10 Tenets of Leadership” that he has found to be essential in the management and leadership of a wide cross-section of people:

1. Respect people. Trust them.

2. Manage by objective.

3. Enable your people.

4. Keep your commitments.

5. Demand constructive contention.

6. Focus on doing the right thing for the company, not your career.

7. Encourage innovation.

8. Create an environment for success.

9. Display uncompromising integrity and no separation.

10. Become redundant.

In each blog entry that follows, Pendergrass will discuss one of these 10 tenets and share examples of its value and the dangers associated with ignoring it. Readers are encouraged to comment and contribute their own strategies at the end of each blog entry.

Larry Pendergrass has served as Keithley’s vice president of new product development since 2003. Previously, he served in a variety of posts for 22 years at Agilent Technologies. Larry holds a master’s degree in physics from the University of California, Davis, and a master’s in business administration from Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.

For More Information

For more information on Larry Pendergrass or Keithley's product development processes, contact the company at:

Telephone:     888-534-8453440-248-0400 FAX: 440-248-6168 E-mail:

info@keithley.com

Internet:

www.keithley.com

Address: Keithley Instruments, Inc. 28775 Aurora Road Cleveland, OH 44139-1891

About Keithley Instruments, Inc.

With more than 60 years of measurement expertise, Keithley Instruments has become a world leader in advanced electrical test instruments and systems. Our customers are scientists and engineers in the worldwide electronics industry involved with advanced materials research, semiconductor device development and fabrication, and the production of end products such as portable wireless devices. The value we provide them is a combination of products for their critical measurement needs and a rich understanding of their applications to improve the quality of their products and reduce their cost of test.

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