Les McKeown - Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track-And Keeping It There (2010)

Advance Praise for Les McKeown and Predictable Success

Predictable Success provides an incredibly useful blueprint for any leader who is looking for sustainable growth.

Marshall Goldsmith, million-selling author of Succession: Are You Ready? and What Got You Here Wont Get You There a WSJ #1 bestseller

Les really captures the integration of key business processes, people and leadership to consistently deliver a compelling vision, a comprehensive plan and profitable growth for the benefit of all stakeholders.

Alan Mulally, president & CEO, Ford Motor Company

Predictable Success isnt a textbookits a sensible and strategic playbook for any leader seeking to take their organization to the next level, and provides the conceptual framework to ensure a successful outcome.

David A. Brandon, chairman and CEO, Dominos Pizza

Hes got it right. Les McKeown has uncovered the core dynamics of organizational growth, and mapped it to the best (and worst!) practices to achieve and maintain optimal, in-your-zone conditionsno matter where a group is in its evolution. This is real-world expertise, with simple but subtle and sophisticated prescriptions for all of us involved in getting things done with other people. And, oh yeah, he nailed how to address some key opportunities in my own company. Predictable Success should be required reading for every management team.

David Allen , bestselling author, Getting Things Done and Making It Work

Les McKeown is absolutely on top of his game. Les not only knowsand showshow your businesses can grow and succeed, he explains it in a way that is intuitive, entertaining and immediately actionable.

Darryl Hutson, American Express Incentive Services

Les McKeown has for over seven years assisted us in the growth and development of our distributorship network. His understanding of what makes a business succeedand his passionate commitment to teaching others how to accomplish Predictable Successhas been our secret weapon and can be yours, too.

Mel Haught, CEO, Pella Corp

Les McKeown clearly has a deep understanding of how businesses grow. His Predictable Success methodology is simple, intuitive and powerful.

Brian Walker , president and CEO, Herman Miller Inc.

This book has come at the perfect time. Predictable Success will completely change the way you think about growing your business. Absorb its ideas before your competitors do.

David McNally, bestselling author of Even Eagles Need a Push and The Eagles Secret

Predictable Success provides a robust framework for any business leader wanting to achieve consistent and profitable growth. Les McKeowns real-world descriptions of company growth cycles should be heeded by all managers.

Vance Bell, CEO Shaw Industries Inc (a Berkshire Hathaway company)

Embracing change and using it positively is a fundamental requirement for growth in any organization, and the health care industry today is ripe for change in all sectors. In Predictable Success , Les McKeown provides simple, elegant, and effective tools for all leaders to understand why and how change occurs in their organizations, and teaches us how to harness that change to achieve success and competitive advantage in our fields. Les McKeowns ideas and insights are brilliantly written, entertaining, and easy to grasp and implementno effective CEO or manager should miss this book!

Dr. Wendy Everett , President, New England Healthcare Institute

Its difficult to predict success. Failure is far easier to predict because its where most people end up. But if you want predictable success, then this book is for you. And, you might find that Les formula for predicting success is not what you think.

Michael Port, author of the NY Times bestseller, The Think Big Manifesto

Les McKeown has an intuitive understanding of why and how business works. Predictable Success is practical and easy to understandexactly what any executive needs to grow his business.

Keith Ferrazzi , #1 NY Times bestselling author of Never Eat Alone and
Whos Got Your Back

Ive experienced firsthand the positive impact and lasting change that Les McKeowns Predictable Success brings to a growing businessand to its leaders. If you want to structure your organization to get to the next stage in growth, and also want to develop personally as a leader, I strongly recommend you get started with Predictable Success .

Matt Long, president, J.E. Higgins Group

There is literally a smile, uncomfortable frown, or a holy crap! on each page.

Kevin Cassidy, chairman, KC Company, Beltsville, Maryland

Predictable Success is the ah-ha! book. Less insight and real-world stories are not only entertaining, they also clearly detail the different stages in the lifecycle of a company, and more importantly, how to avoid declining into treadmill and death rattle. A dont-miss business book!

David Greer, CEO, Wire Belt Company, Inc

Les is the Butch Harmon of business consulting.

Graydon Bevis, president, Pella Windows and Doors, Colorado

Over the past three years, Les McKeowns Predictable Success has completely revolutionized how I and my team manage our business. Working with Les vastly accelerated our success and saved us from a multitude of potential dead ends. Im convinced our investment in Predictable Success has repaid itself many times over. I thoroughly recommend Les McKeown and the Predictable Success program for any business wanting to break through to the next stage in growth.

John Estabrook, CEO, Horne Building Specialties, Inc.

LES McKEOWN

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