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Les McKeown is a business consultant, speaker, and author specializing in organizational growth and leadership. He is the founder and CEO of Predictable Success, a consultancy that helps organizations achieve scalable, sustainable growth.
Known for: Do Scale: A Road Map to Growing a Remarkable Company, Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track—and Keeping It There
Books by Les McKeown
Do Scale: A Road Map to Growing a Remarkable Company
Do Scale is a practical guide for entrepreneurs and leaders seeking to grow an organization sustainably and remarkably. Les McKeown provides a clear roadmap for scaling businesses without losing their...
Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track—and Keeping It There
Predictable Success describes the seven stages of organizational growth and decline, offering a practical roadmap for leaders to guide their companies toward sustainable success. Les McKeown explains ...
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Clarifying the Difference Between Growth and Scale
For years I watched organizations conflate growth with progress. Growth is seductive; it looks impressive on charts, and investors and media love it. But uncontrolled growth often hides inefficiency and fragility. Scaling, on the other hand, is measured and repeatable — it focuses on increasing outp...
From Do Scale: A Road Map to Growing a Remarkable Company
The Predictable Success Model and Its Stages
To scale predictably, we must first understand where we are. Through decades of watching hundreds of companies evolve, I developed the Predictable Success Model — a framework that maps the natural stages of organizational growth. Every thriving enterprise begins in the Early Struggle: energy is high...
From Do Scale: A Road Map to Growing a Remarkable Company
The Early Struggle Stage
Every organization begins in what I call Early Struggle—the raw, uncertain fight for survival. The promise of your idea is still more dream than reality, and every day feels like a contest between exhaustion and hope. Resources are tight, customers are scarce, and systems barely exist. The entire fo...
From Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track—and Keeping It There
The Fun Stage
If Early Struggle is all about survival, Fun is all about expansion. This is the phase most people romanticize when they think of entrepreneurship—the sense that everything is possible, opportunities abound, and momentum itself fuels growth. The founder’s instincts seem flawless, and the team feels ...
From Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track—and Keeping It There
About Les McKeown
Les McKeown is a business consultant, speaker, and author specializing in organizational growth and leadership. He is the founder and CEO of Predictable Success, a consultancy that helps organizations achieve scalable, sustainable growth. Before founding his firm, McKeown launched and managed multip...
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Les McKeown is a business consultant, speaker, and author specializing in organizational growth and leadership. He is the founder and CEO of Predictable Success, a consultancy that helps organizations achieve scalable, sustainable growth. Before founding his firm, McKeown launched and managed multip...
Les McKeown is a business consultant, speaker, and author specializing in organizational growth and leadership. He is the founder and CEO of Predictable Success, a consultancy that helps organizations achieve scalable, sustainable growth. Before founding his firm, McKeown launched and managed multiple businesses in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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