Predictable Success: Summary Review
This is a summary review of Predictable Success containing key details about the book.
What is Predictable Success About?
Predictable Success by Les McKeown is a book that provides a roadmap for organizations to achieve sustainable growth and success by identifying and leveraging their unique stage of growth, and implementing strategies to overcome common challenges at each stage. It is a useful guide for leaders who want to build a successful and sustainable organization. The book's focus on simplicity, transparency, and accountability, along with its clear roadmap for growth, makes it a valuable resource for leaders at all levels.
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. 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.
Summary Points & Takeaways from Predictable Success
Some key summary points and takeaways from the book include:
* There are 7 stages of growth for an organization: Early Struggle, Fun, White Water, Predictable Success, Treadmill, The Big Rut, and Death Rattle.
* Predictable Success is the stage where an organization has found a sustainable model and is experiencing consistent growth.
* The key to achieving Predictable Success is building a scalable infrastructure that can support growth, while still maintaining the company culture and values.
* The 3 core principles that guide Predictable Success are simplicity, transparency, and accountability.
* To maintain Predictable Success, leaders must focus on keeping the company agile, innovative, and aligned with the needs of its customers.
* Successful leaders in Predictable Success are able to balance creativity with discipline, build a strong team, and maintain a healthy organizational culture.
* When an organization reaches The Big Rut, it must reinvigorate its team, recommit to its mission, and focus on innovation in order to avoid Death Rattle.
* The Death Rattle stage is characterized by a loss of focus, lack of innovation, and poor financial performance. Organizations in this stage must make major changes or face inevitable decline and failure.
* The book provides practical advice and tools for leaders to assess their organization's stage of growth, diagnose its strengths and weaknesses, and take the necessary steps to move towards Predictable Success.
Who is the author of Predictable Success?
Les McKeown is the president and CEO of Predictable Success, an adviser on accelerated business growth. He has started more than 40 companies and was the founding partner of an incubation consulting company that guided hundreds of organizations worldwide.
What are good quotes from Predictable Success?
“who see their role as authority-based rather than leadership-based may resist emerging ownership and self-accountability”
“You should finish every day by answering this question: “What did we do today that took us closer to finding a viable market for our product (or service)?”
“Plan to start your business in “listen” mode—you’ll find out where your customers are by asking, not by talking.”
Book details
- Print length: 200 Pages
- Genre: Business Leadership Nonfiction
What are the chapters in Predictable Success?
Chapter 1: Overview What Predictable Success Looks Like from 30,000 Feet
Chapter 2: Early Struggle Gasping for Cash, Finding a Market-Overcoming Gravity to Achieve Takeoff
Chapter 3: Fun Sell, Sell, Sell-Fast Growth and Early Success
Chapter 4: Whitewater Why Isn't This Fun Anymore? Battling Complexity to Become Efficient
Chapter 5: Predicatable Success Achieving Perfect Balance-Succeed, Learn, Repeat
Chapter 6: Treadmill Working Hard, Going Nowhere-The Overmanaged Organization
Chapter 7: The Big Rut In The Organizational Comfort Zone-Rearranging the Deck Chairs
Chapter 8: Death Rattle Going Quietly into That Good Night
Chapter 9: Almost There Breaking Through Whitewater into Predictable Success
Chapter 10: What to Do When You've Overshot Recovering from Treadmill
Chapter 11: Staying at the Peak Maintaining Predictable Success Once You Get There
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Chief Editor
Tal Gur is an author, founder, and impact-driven entrepreneur at heart. After trading his daily grind for a life of his own daring design, he spent a decade pursuing 100 major life goals around the globe. His journey and most recent book, The Art of Fully Living, has led him to found Elevate Society.
