THE SYNERGIST  

Les McKeown is the President & CEO of Predictable Success, a leading adviser on accelerated business growth. He has has started more than 40 companies and was the founding partner of an incubation consulting company. Les is the author of the bestseller Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization On the Growth Track - and Keeping It There. His latest book is The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success. @lesmckeown @lesmckeown


Hardest Leadership Skill You'll Ever Learn

Here's a lesson you won't learn on the fly. It takes practice and a real control of your ego. Check it out.  Read story

3 Biggest Excuses of Wanna-Be Leaders

It's time to stop making a excuses. If you want to be a leader, there's nothing holding you back.  Read story

3 Types of Leaders Who Never Succeed

Do you rise again and again to the very edge of success, only to fall back down? You may be guilty of one of these leadership styles.  Read story

31 Questions to Turbocharge Q2

Here's how to ensure you hit the ground running in Q2 and maximize the chance of success in all of your projects.  Read story

How to Fix Your Dysfunctional Boss

Everybody answers to someone. If that someone is driving you crazy, here's how to fix it.  Read story

4 Reasons Great Leaders Get Overlooked

Despite all your best efforts, are you failing to get the recognition you think you deserve? Here's what's going on.  Read story

How to Be a Highly Innovative Company

Innovation isn't just one person's job. A highly innovative company makes innovation the norm throughout the organization, from top to bottom.  Read story

Starting a Company? 3 Things You Can't Mess Up

Few start-up founders are clear-minded enough about three non-negotiable fundamentals.  Read story

March: Your Make It or Break It Month

What happens in the next 30 days will almost certainly determine your success for the rest of the year.  Read story

3 Biggest Things Hurting Your Productivity

There's one thing every leader needs to have to be great: time management. Struggling? Take a look at what may be hurting your leadership.  Read story

4 Ways to Know You're Ready to Start a Business

Thinking of starting a company? There are many things you need to consider, but first, are you even ready?  Read story

3 Tech Trends That Can Damage Your Leadership

Technology provides a vast array of great tools for leaders. But if used unthinkingly, technology can have a terrible effect on your leadership abilities.  Read story

How to Build a Legacy

This isn't about people just remembering who you were. Here's how great leaders build a legacy that goes beyond fond memories.  Read story

4 Signs You Will Fail as a Leader

Outwardly, you appear effective, dependable, on top of things. But look closer. Are you in danger of destructive behaviors?  Read story

3 Reasons Your Company Isn't Taking Off

For most organizations that try to scale but fail, the bottleneck is usually the person at the top: the founder/owner or CEO.  Read story

6 Traits of the Best Coaching Relationships

What does it take to make a mentor/mentee relationship work? Check out these six principles.  Read story

6 Symptoms of a Self-Made Saboteur

Some leaders will sub-consciously create an environment in which others will fail, solely so they can ride to the rescue and "fix it."  Read story

4 Ways to Be a Leader Who Matters

Leaders who build lasting legacies don't do so overnight. For long term impact, a leader must be reflective and thoughtful.  Read story

5 Biggest Leadership Lessons From 2012

What a year, right? Check out what events should shape your leadership goals for 2013.  Read story

Why 80% of Your Business Is Dragging You Down

You've heard of the Pareto Principle -- that 20% of your efforts yield 80% of your profits. Now, what are you doing with the other 80% of your time?  Read story

A Great Leader's Year-end Checklist

The year is almost over. Great leaders know how to tie up loose ends and make sure their employees are happy and ready to move forward.  Read story

5 Reasons Your Top Employee Isn't Happy

Not sure why your top performer is unhappy? Check out what the most brilliant (yet difficult) employees hate about company culture.  Read story

3 Things Every Great Leader Gets Wrong

Think you're a great leader? Make sure you aren't guilty of one of these three reality-distorting traits.  Read story

When You're Too Good for Your Own Start-up

Every start-up needs two types of people: the visionary and the operator. If you think you can be both types, you're in trouble.  Read story

3 Lousy Leadership Traits from the Campaign Trail

Politicians can be great leaders. But if you're running a business, here are three leadership traits from the campaign trail you don't want to employ.  Read story

3 Simple Tricks to Making Better Decisions

You make decisions all day, every day. Here are three simple rules for a better decision-making process.  Read story

Know When to Pull the Plug

Sometimes knowing when to say game over is just as important as getting that new strategy off the ground.  Read story

3 Common Mistakes Leaders Need to Fix

So your company isn't growing fast enough and you can't figure out why? You're likely in denial about one of these three things.  Read story

When Selling More Isn't Enough to Keep Growing

You've hit a wall. The sell, sell, sell approach that scaled your business has now become a big problem. Here's how to solve it.  Read story

3 Reasons Good Strategies Fail

So that great new strategy failed miserably. But there might not be anything wrong with the strategy. Take another look.  Read story

4 Ways to Supercharge a Business Trip

Think you can't grow as a leader while waiting in a security line? Think again. Check out easy ways to maximize your next business trip.  Read story

Leadership Evolution: How to Manage Managers

Hiring great managers isn't enough. As your business grows, if you can't manage your managers, you'll halt growth.  Read story

How to Hire Great People--Every Time

Hiring doesn't have to be hit or miss. Treat the process as the most important strategic planning your company needs, and you'll get better results.  Read story

Why You Need to Stop Saying Yes to Everything

When your company becomes bigger than a scrappy start-up, saying yes can really hurt growth. Here's why.  Read story

How One Employee Made My Mistake a Brilliant Idea

I was about to admit my new strategy was an utter failure when one employee showed me otherwise.  Read story

4 Reasons More Meetings Won't Produce Change

Are you fooling yourself into thinking that you're driving real change? Check out these four telltale signs.  Read story

Is Your Superstar Employee Really Helping Your Business?

As your business gets more complex, those early superstar employees can actually hurt progress. Here's why.  Read story

4 Biggest Weaknesses of Great Leaders

The same skills that made you a great entrepreneur and leader could also make you a terrible manager.  Read story

5 Ways to Beat Mediocrity

It's easy to rest on success. But so often that can turn a great company into an average company.  Read story

4 Steps to Go From Founder to CEO

There are big differences between leading a company as a founder and leading a company as a CEO. Here's how to bridge the gap.  Read story

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