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Register for the free online workshop happening TODAY at 1pm EST and position your company or not-for-profit for growth in 2023!

I’ll be sharing the 10 key steps you MUST take to build a roadmap for lasting, sustainable growth for your business or not-for-profit.

And I’ll talk about HOW you implement those 10 steps, and in what order. Yes, implementation varies crucially, depending on what stage of growth you're at right now... and that's the part no-one else tells you... until NOW.

Register here: https://predictablesuccess.com/growthworkshop/

The 10-Step Roadmap to Growing ANY Business or Not-for-Profit: Workshop – Predictable Success

Are you registered for tomorrow's workshop? We're talking about the 10 key steps needed to grow any business or not-for-profit, AND how to implement them - and in what precise sequence - to get to where you want to go.

If GROWTH is on your radar for 2023, you can't afford to miss this free workshop! Be sure to register here:

The 10-Step Roadmap to Growing ANY Business or Not-for-Profit: Workshop – Predictable Success Here's the easy part: Whether you want to grow a 50-year-old, 20,000-employee company, or a brand new 2-person not-for-profit, there are 10 key steps you MUST take to build a roadmap for lasting, sustainable growth.

There are 10 key steps you MUST take to build a roadmap for lasting, sustainable growth for your business or not-for-profit.

The hard part? How you implement those 10 steps, and in what sequence, varies crucially, depending on what stage of growth you're at right now... and that's the part no-one else tells you... until NOW.

Register for the FREE workshop on MARCH 23: Breaking Through Your Barrier To Growth: A 10-Step Roadmap to Growing ANY Business or Not-for-profit here: https://predictablesuccess.com/growthworkshop/

The 10-Step Roadmap to Growing ANY Business or Not-for-Profit: Workshop – Predictable Success

Whether you want to grow a 50-year-old, 20,000-employee company, or a brand new 2-person not-for-profit, there are 10 key steps you MUST take to build a roadmap for lasting, sustainable growth.

The hard part? How you implement those 10 steps, and in what sequence, varies crucially, depending on what stage of growth you're at right now... and that's the part no-one else tells you... until NOW.

Register for the FREE workshop on MARCH 23: Breaking Through Your Barrier To Growth: A 10-Step Roadmap to Growing ANY Business or Not-for-profit here:

The 10-Step Roadmap to Growing ANY Business or Not-for-Profit: Workshop – Predictable Success Here's the easy part: Whether you want to grow a 50-year-old, 20,000-employee company, or a brand new 2-person not-for-profit, there are 10 key steps you MUST take to build a roadmap for lasting, sustainable growth.

Many previously fast-growing organizations stall out simply because of their visionary leader’s inability to get out of their own way.

It’s as if they can’t help themselves – having achieved initial success, the visionary leader becomes a liability to the greater growth of the organization: they seem compelled to meddle, interfere, radically switch direction and generally act like arsonists, all the while subconsciously self-sabotaging their own success, and that of their organization.

Does this sound like you, or someone you know?

Do you (or they) have a seeming inability to say ‘No’ to the next idea, the next bright shiny object?

Do you fear that by saying ‘Yes’ to everything that comes your way you might be getting in your own way and impairing the growth of your organization?

If so, here is a key step to getting out of your own way:

Don’t say ‘Yes’ when you’re alone.

Ah yes – the benefits of owning your own business: unexpectedly meeting a charming individual over dinner…and hiring them for a senior position without consulting anyone else.

Learning over breakfast that a competitor is for sale…and negotiating heads of agreement before lunch.

Spending a week in a beautiful city…and deciding to open an office there.

The truth is, most entrepreneurs don’t start organizations primarily for the financial reward (though that’s obviously important) – they do so because of a fierce drive for independence and autonomy – and saying ‘yes’ to their whims is one of the most important ways of expressing that fierce autonomy.

The problem is, as the entity grows and becomes more complex, what was once a quirky individualism becomes instead a disruptive annoyance.

Hiring people, opening offices, acquiring new lines – all things that in the early days fueled the growth and success of the smaller organization now act like mammoth rocks thrown into a small pond, disrupting the organization’s existing strategy, and confusing the senior team who are trying to manage the direction of the organization against a plan.

Stop saying say ‘Yes’ to every whizzo idea you have – at least until you’ve taken time to consult with your senior team.

Three Critical Barriers to Your Growth – Predictable Success

You will only achieve the growth you need and want if you are ruthlessly focussed on your SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER to growth.

Get this wrong -- try to "fix" a symptom rather than the root cause -- and the consequences can be brutal.

Missed opportunities. Expensive failures. Team friction. Stasis at best, and ultimately, for some...total meltdown.

The heart-breaking truth at the core of this is that most leaders don't do the wrong things - they do the right things - in the wrong order. The underlying reason this happens? Not knowing - and therefore not prioritizing - your KEY SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER TO GROWTH.

In my work as a serial entrepreneur, launching over 40 businesses and not-for-profits, I've uncovered the three most common barriers to growth, and I discussed them in detail with Predictable Success Community Manager Katy Widrick in the video here:

Three Critical Barriers to Your Growth – Predictable Success You will only achieve the growth you need and want if you are ruthlessly focussed on your SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER to growth.

You will only achieve the growth you need and want if you are ruthlessly focused on your SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER to growth - take our quiz to find out exactly what that challenge is - and how to OVERCOME it! https://predictablesuccess.com/growthquiz/

How to make good decisions about growing your organization – Predictable Success

"The foundation of lasting, profitable organizational growth is the ability to make consistently sound decisions." - Les McKeown, Founder and CEO, Predictable Success

How to make good decisions about growing your organization – Predictable Success An inescapable point we emphasize over and over again in building Predictable Success is that the foundation of lasting, profitable organizational growth is the ability to make and implement consistently sound decisions. 

Three Critical Barriers to Your Growth

Which of these 3 growth barriers is preventing you from ruthlessly executing your plan to get to Predictable Success?

Three Critical Barriers to Your Growth You will only achieve the growth you need and want if you are ruthlessly focussed on your SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER to growth. Here's how to know which barrier is in your way.

What got you here won’t get you to where you want to go. If you’re ready to take it to the next level, let's GROW. You will only achieve the growth you need and want if you are ruthlessly focused on your SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER to growth - take our quiz to find out exactly what that challenge is - and how to overcome it! https://predictablesuccess.com/growthquiz/

Three Critical Barriers to Your Growth

In my work as a serial entrepreneur, launching over 40 businesses and not-for-profits, I've uncovered the three most common barriers to growth, and I discussed them in detail with Predictable Success Community Manager Katy Widrick in the training last week. Did you miss it? Watch the replay here:

Three Critical Barriers to Your Growth You will only achieve the growth you need and want if you are ruthlessly focussed on your SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER to growth. Here's how to know which barrier is in your way.

The 10-Step Roadmap to Growing ANY Business or Not-for-Profit: Workshop

Whether you want to grow a 50-year-old, 20,000-employee company, or a brand new 2-person not-for-profit, there are 10 key steps you MUST take to build a roadmap for lasting, sustainable growth.

The hard part? How you implement those 10 steps, and in what sequence, varies crucially, depending on what stage of growth you're at right now... and that's the part no-one else tells you... until NOW.

Register for the March 23 FREE workshop: Breaking Through Your Barrier To Growth: A 10-Step Roadmap to Growing ANY Business or Not-for-profit here:

The 10-Step Roadmap to Growing ANY Business or Not-for-Profit: Workshop Here's the easy part: Whether you want to grow a 50-year-old, 20,000-employee company, or a brand new 2-person not-for-profit, there are 10 key steps you MUST take to build a roadmap for lasting, sustainable growth.

Symptoms or Solutions? (Getting to the Root of Stalled Growth)

The majority of organization leaders spend too much time, money and energy trying to change the symptoms of stalled growth when they should be looking upstream, at the causes.

Here are three indicators that you need to shift your perspective upstream, and concentrate on your top team (including yourself!) for growth:

Symptoms or Solutions? (Getting to the Root of Stalled Growth) When executive leaders reach out to us, it's usually because they are looking for a way to jump-start their business, division, department, project, group or team. Here, in no particular order, are the five most common reasons they give me for calling or emailing in the first place.

As a leader, do you feel like you're failing or are you failing? The distinction usually comes down to mapping themselves up against an unrealistic set of expectations. And so you're not failing, you're just holding up a completely unrealistic set of expectations, which are usually not self-generated. Tune in to my latest interview on the Carey Nieuwhof podcast, where we discuss, this subject, imposter syndrome, and the problem with people-pleasing leaders. https://careynieuwhof.com/episode528/

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Join the livestream today at 10am EST as I discuss the three most common barriers to growth in detail with Predictable Success Community Manager Katy Widrick! https://fb.me/e/2ltx94bqF

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How to be a Great Leader, Even Without the Job Title I #TheSavvyMarketer Ep9

Great episode with Spire!

How to be a Great Leader, Even Without the Job Title I #TheSavvyMarketer Ep9 Anyone can be a leader within an organization, but how can you be a great leader? This week’s guest on The Savvy Marketer, Founder & Owner of Predictable Suc...

You will only achieve the growth you need and want if you are ruthlessly focused on your SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER to growth.

Get this wrong -- try to "fix" a symptom rather than the root cause -- and the consequences can be brutal.

Missed opportunities. Expensive failures. Team friction. Stasis at best, and ultimately, for some...total meltdown.

The heart-breaking truth at the core of this is that most leaders don't do the wrong things - they do the right things - in the wrong order. The underlying reason this happens? Not knowing - and therefore not prioritizing - your KEY SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER TO GROWTH.

Join us on Thursday March 9 at 10am EST for a discussion around the 3 most common barriers to growth - streaming live on the Predictable Success page! https://www.facebook.com/events/579277207551845

My Top 10 Tips For Achieving Predictable Success

Sustained growth comes from unhooking your organization's leadership from dependence on 'maverick big dogs', and instead building a team-based culture of support and alignment toward the organization’s common goals.

My Top 10 Tips For Achieving Predictable Success |image1|Here are my personal top 10 recommendations for achieving Predictable Success® in 2007, 5 for smaller, fast-growing organizations, and 5 for larger organizations. Oh, they work for divisions, departments and teams, too.

Real-world leadership is very different from all that the media would have us believe. Forget the dashing swash-buckler, effective leadership is typically understated. It’s the myriad small things that make the big things possible.

In DO/LEAD, bestselling author and founder of Predictable Success Les McKeown demolishes the myths that have paralyzed today's real-world leadership, then provides new tools for the job. For a limited time, get your copy of DO/LEAD for free! https://my.predictablesuccess.com/doleadbook/

You will only achieve the growth you need and want if you are ruthlessly focused on your SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER to growth - take our quiz to find out exactly what that challenge is - and how to OVERCOME it! https://predictablesuccess.com/growthquiz/

One of the key aspects of high performance in almost any field of achievement is pace. Think of any great musician, great sportsperson, great performer – even great comedians – and you’ll instantly recognize the degree to which pace and cadence play a vital role in their success.

The role of cadence in business success is equally important, just not as visible. Here are just some of the areas in which we’ve had great success in simply changing cadences up (or down):

Scheduled meetings – Most structured meeting have a cadence ‘sweet spot’ – daily, weekly, monthly, etc. But often we either never find that sweet spot or, if we do, circumstances change and render the existing cadence clunky - without us ever making an appropriate adjustment. Regularly reviewing your existing meetings inventory and overhauling their cadence is well worth doing.

Internal meeting structure – As far as internal cadence is concerned, most scheduled meetings have a start time and an end time, and that’s it. We’re achieving great productivity gains in scheduling start and stop times for each major agenda item.

Pop-ins, and one-shot communications – There’s a ton of research that shows how costly dealing with ‘one-hit’ interruptions is to our productivity. One study estimates it can consume up to six hours a day.

We’re seeing real productivity gains by instituting scheduled ‘mop-up’ meetings, whereby an Internal Customer Pair set a regular cadence (usually weekly) to mop-up all the previous week’s one-hit-wonders in one go, together, leaving interruptions to be used only for genuine emergencies.

Three Powerful New Concepts to Accelerate Growth

"Building and communicating strategy in and out of concentric tori is more organic, breeds better quality discussions, unlocks more delegation, and instills greater accountability than communicating up and down a command and control org chart". - Les McKeown, Founder and CEO, Predictable Success

Three Powerful New Concepts to Accelerate Growth As business leaders, we're all constantly on the lookout for new ways to scale our businesses – new books, new ideas, new processes – anything that will give us an edge and bring sustainability as we grow. Here are three concepts that we at Predictable Success have worked with extensively this y...

What got you here won’t get you to where you want to go. If you’re ready to take it to the next level, let's GROW. You will only achieve the growth you need and want if you are ruthlessly focused on your SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER to growth - take our quiz to find out exactly what that challenge is - and how to overcome it! https://predictablesuccess.com/growthquiz/

To Unlock Growth For Your Organization, Look Up(stream)

The majority of leaders spend too much time, money and energy trying to change the symptoms of stalled growth when they should be looking upstream, at the causes.

Here are three indicators that you need to shift your perspective upstream, and concentrate on your top team (including yourself!) to achieve sustainable growth this year and beyond:

To Unlock Growth For Your Organization, Look Up(stream) The nature of my business means that most of the calls and emails I receive are from business leaders looking for a way to jump-start growth within their business, division, department, project, group or team.

What got you here won’t get you to where you want to go. If you’re ready to take it to the next level, let's GROW. You will only achieve the growth you need and want if you are ruthlessly focused on your SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER to growth - take our quiz to find out exactly what that challenge is - and how to overcome it! https://predictablesuccess.com/growthquiz/

Identify and break through your single biggest barrier to growth when you take the Predictable Success Growth Quiz: https://predictablesuccess.com/growthquiz

3 Steps For Navigating The Toughest Growth Challenges

After working to lead many organizations to Predictable Success over the past 25 years, one conclusion I’ve reached is that the challenging yet worthwhile journey through Whitewater and into Predictable Success is not for the common leadership team or organization.

It is for people and organizations that are looking to achieve something truly uncommon!

If you’re one of them, then follow these three steps to increase the likelihood of a successful voyage:

3 Steps For Navigating The Toughest Growth Challenges Listen to Les McKeown read this blog post:Audio version not yet available – please check back later. As the story goes, on the eve of his ill-fated and heroic third expedition to Antarctica in 1914, Ernest Shackleton posted the following advertisement in a London newspaper: ad placed by Ernest Sha...

Can you launch and nurture predictable success that’s sustainable? Are you a visionary or an operator? At which stage of evolution is your business, and what is the next best step forward for you? In this podcast takeover episode, Dana Barber speaks about how to create predictable success with Les McKeown.
https://practiceofthepractice.com/ask-the-expert-how-to-create-predictable-success-with-les-mckeown-pop-844

In Chapter 4 of DO/LEAD, we go over ways to make small regular deposits into your own "leadership bank", so that one day, you can make a large withdrawal.

For a limited time, you may order a free copy of DO/LEAD, and use the accompanying digital study guide and workbook to enhance your experience. https://my.predictablesuccess.com/doleadbook/

You will only achieve the growth you need and want if you are ruthlessly focused on your SINGLE BIGGEST BARRIER to growth - take our quiz to find out exactly what that challenge is - and how to overcome it! https://predictablesuccess.com/growthquiz/

4 Reasons You Can’t Execute

Ever get the feeling that when you put your foot on the gas pedal, nothing happens? That although you and your team are as capable as ever at coming up with smart, competition-beating ideas, you’ve lost the ability to execute on those ideas?

If you’re finding it increasingly hard to see great decisions through to final completion – if you’re missing the sense of achievement that comes from translating ideas into results-delivering reality, then chances are it’s because of one or more of these four reasons:

4 Reasons You Can’t Execute A version of this article first appeared in Inc.com Listen to Les McKeown read this blog post: Take a look around – how many great decisions have you made that never got off the ground? Ever get the feeling that when you put your foot on the gas pedal, nothing happens? That although you and your ...

Three Powerful New Concepts to Accelerate Growth

As leaders, we’re all constantly on the lookout for new ways to scale our organizations – new books, new ideas, new processes – anything that will give us an edge and bring sustainability as we grow.

Here are three concepts that we at Predictable Success have worked with extensively this year, with substantial impact for both our clients and our own organization:

Three Powerful New Concepts to Accelerate Growth As business leaders, we're all constantly on the lookout for new ways to scale our businesses – new books, new ideas, new processes – anything that will give us an edge and bring sustainability as we grow. Here are three concepts that we at Predictable Success have worked with extensively this y...

The Predictable Success Leadership Styles Quiz is a short, multi-choice self-assessment that will enable you to better understand your own leadership and management style - and that of those you work with. It consists of 32 multi-choice questions, and most people complete it in less than 5 minutes.

There is absolutely no 'right' or 'preferred' or 'better' profile - this is just a way for you to get some insight into what your natural style is. Take the quiz here: https://predictablesuccess.com/styles-quiz/

Just because the culture in your team, group, or organization isn’t conducive to leading from within doesn’t mean that you should shy away from trying it.

If you have the political clout, and some sweat equity to spend, go ahead and give it a shot. Just be aware that it may be hard, and that you're probably going to see results only in the medium to long-term, as you first have to change the underlying culture.

Remember, anyone can lead, from where there are.

To learn more about effective leadership, order your copy of DO/LEAD, and use the digital study guide and workbook to enhance your experience - free for a limited time! https://my.predictablesuccess.com/doleadbook/