Jul 16, 2020 | 3 min read

Achieving Predictable Success for Your Company with Les McKeown

By: Patrick Emmons

Achieving Predictable Success for Your Company with Les McKeown

For a new company, success can seem so difficult to attain. But there is a pattern to success that can help you navigate the growing pains of a fledgling business. Les McKeown is the bestselling author of Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track - and Keeping It There, and has started more than 40 businesses in his own right.

Les joined Patrick and Shelli to discuss the lifecycle of success. He outlines the stages of growth, the stages of decline, and offers advice on what companies should do every step of the way. Listen for his advice and his thoughts on where innovation fits into the picture.

  • [00:24] - This week: Les McKeown
  • [01:18] - Predictable success
  • [03:25] - Seven stages of growth in organizations
  • [10:28] - The danger of losing innovation
  • [19:17] - Pivoting in the Big Rut
  • [24:33] - Friends of the boss
  • [31:49] - The difference between entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs
  • [32:58] - Synergist quiz

Les McKeown is the President & CEO of Predictable Success, the leading advisor on accelerated business growth. He has started over 40 companies in his own right and was the founding partner of an incubation consulting company that advised on the creation and growth of hundreds of more organizations worldwide.

Les is the author of the WSJ and USA Today Best-seller, “Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization On the Growth Track - and Keeping It There” and three other best-sellers.

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About Patrick Emmons

If you can’t appreciate a good sports analogy, movie quote, or military reference, you may not want to work with him, but if you value honesty, integrity, and commitment to improvement, Patrick can certainly help take your business or your career to the next level. “Good enough,” is simply not in his vernacular. Pat’s passion is for relentlessly pushing himself and others to achieve full potential. Patrick Emmons is a graduate of St. Norbert College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. Patrick co-founded Adage Technologies in 2001 and in 2015, founded DragonSpears as a spin-off dedicated to developing custom applications that improve speed, compliance and scalability of clients’ internal and customer-facing workflow processes. When he is not learning about new technology, running a better business, or becoming a stronger leader, he can be found coaching his kids’ (FIVE of them) baseball and lacrosse teams and praising his ever-so-patient wife for all her support.

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