Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track - and Keeping it There »

Les McKeown is the co-founder of an incubation company that has assisted hundreds of entrepreneurs. Since moving to the US in 1999, he has helped C-level executives and their teams identify and eliminate personal and organizational barriers to growth. McKeown lives in Marblehead, Massachusetts, with his wife and two dogs and receives occasional care packages from his three children.

No matter what kind of organization you work for, whether it's your own small business or a global Fortune 100 company, your number-one goal is success. Predictable Success takes you step-by-step through a startlingly simple, intuitive, and universal process that shows you how to bring sustained, lasting, predictable success to your organization.

Find out where your organization is today and take the uncertainty out of tomorrow as you make the journey towards Predictable Success.

Foreword Why you should Read this Book vii

Preface Uncovering Predictable Success ix

Introduction What Predictable Success is, and why you should Care 1

Part 1 Taking the Journey: Having a Map Means you know where you're Going

1 Overview What Predictable Success Looks Like from 30,000 Feet 9

2 Early Struggle Gasping for Cash, Finding a Market-Overcoming Gravity to Achieve Takeoff 31

3 Fun Sell, Sell, Sell-Fast Growth and Early Success 43

4 Whitewater Why isn't this Fun Anymore? Battling Complexity to become Efficient 59

5 Predictable Success Achieving Perfect Balance-Succeed, Learn, Repeat 77

6 Treadmill Working Hard, Going Nowhere-The Overmanaged Organization 95

7 The Big Rut In the Organizational Comfort Zone-Rearranging the Deck Chairs 113

8 Death Rattle Going Quietly into that Good Night 125

Part 2 Arrival: Getting to Predictable Success-And Staying there

9 Almost there Breaking through Whitewater into Predictable Success 131

10 What to do when you've Overshot Recovering from Treadmill 161

11 Staying at the Peak Maintaining Predictable Success Once you get there 185

Index 195

Acknowledgments 201

About the Author 203