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Les McKeown

Les McKeown is a business author and leadership adviser focused on entrepreneurship, organizational growth, and executive team dynamics. He is best known for Predictable Success and The Synergist, which present practical frameworks for scaling companies, aligning leadership teams, and navigating the predictable stages and challenges of business growth.

経歴と著者の歩み

Les McKeown’s career took shape in Ireland through finance and entrepreneurship rather than literary or academic institutions. Official biographies note that he won the Samuel Smyth Memorial Prize as a chartered accountant in the UK, spent a brief period with Price Waterhouse, became Ireland’s youngest accounting-firm partner, and later relocated to the United States in 1999 after helping build a 13-office training and consulting business. The deeper turning point, however, was his repeated exposure to founders and young organizations, which led him to search for patterns in growth rather than treat success as luck or personality. ((https://predictablesuccess.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/CrossFunctionalTeams.pdf))

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名言

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Leadership is helping any group of two or more people achieve their common goals
-What Real Leadership Is, and Where It Really Happens
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Your biggest strength ultimately becomes your most glaring weakness
-Why Your Greatest Achievement Is Killing Your Business
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To make it to Predictable Success you must restore self-accountability, which will in turn radically improve the degree to which the organization or team executes effectively
-Restoring Accountability: Why It’s Important, and How to Do It
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It’s not events that will shape your future next year – it’s how your organization reacts to those events that matters
-Why 'Capacity' is the Key to Success
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Organizations without a strong sense of ownership and self-accountability fail to anticipate customer needs
-The centrality of ownership and self-accountability
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Overachievers bring things to a head, but it takes subtlety, patience, and precision to perform, to transform something into what it truly can be
-Are You A High-Performer – Or Just An Overachiever?
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The foundation of building a legacy is a deep sense of knowing – not just knowing what is important to you, but what is non-negotiable
-How to leave a leadership legacy
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Most often ineffective meetings are merely a symptom – it’s the inefficiencies, duplications, misunderstandings, redundancies, ambiguities, and frustrations that occur before the senior team gets together that are the real cause of underperformance
-A 10-Point Checklist for Better Team Decisions
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Growth leadership needs to be consistently effective over a prolonged period
-Are you leading, or positioning?
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True leaders don’t presume that it’s their divine right to take charge every time two or more people get together
-Are you a Leader, or a 'Gotta-be-in-Front'er?

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"Les McKeown is absolutely on top of his game"

Darryl Hutson

"Les McKeown clearly has a deep understanding of how businesses grow"

Brian Walker

"Les McKeown’s latest book, Do Lead, is a thoroughly refreshing take on what real leadership is all about"

Rita Gunther McGrath

"Les McKeown has for over five years assisted us in the growth and development of our distributorship network"

Mel Haught

"Les McKeown's excellent first book, Predictable Success, helped many companies—including the Motley Fool—stay on the right track"

David Gardner

"If you want a road map to get to the next stage with your organization, I urge you to get on board with Les McKeown"

Chan Lundy

"Les McKeown has uncovered the core dynamics of organizational growth"

David Allen

"If you don’t think of yourself as a leader, think again. Les McKeown shows you how to be a great one"

JJ Ramberg

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