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Whitewater

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Death Rattle

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The Operator

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The Processor

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Trace Score

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Secondary Score

A Primary Styles Score (from 240-479) indicates that this is a Style that you are naturally comfortable in, and one in which

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Primary Score

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Dominant Score

If you are absolutely serious about scaling your organization, your business, not for profit, your church, or your NGO… If achieving sustainable

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Newsletter: December 2014

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Newsletter: November 16, 2014

Knowledge is power, especially when it enables you to foresee challenges and opportunities. This week, we have a video and an accompanying

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Newsletter: June 2013

As a hard-working professional, it’s only natural to become tired from time to time. However, what if you could pinpoint the specific

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Newsletter: August 2014

This issue is all about finding solutions to business challenges and how sometimes the answer is much simpler than you may think.

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Newsletter: August, 2014

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Do yourself (and everyone else) a favor – dump your inner circle.

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Do Lead Invitation-Only Deep Dive

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Breaking News: Enter the Do Lead Contest, Visit Our New Website, Pick Your Pre-Order Bonus

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Newsletter: February, 2014

Mark Silver is the founder of Heart of Business, a remarkable company that provides guidance and support to individuals who want to

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How to Get Through Whitewater and in to Predictable Success

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5 Things That Do What It Says on the Tin

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How Not to Roll Out a New System or Process

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Not only is Steve McKee president of McKee Wallwork & Company, he’s also a columnist for BusinessWeek and an award-winning author. When

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Predictable Success News | Motivate Your Team, Protect Against Office Politics, How to Rebuild from the Ground Up

Working with (or for) Processor-style colleagues can be a frustrating experience for those who don’t share their world view. Precise and logical,

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Working with (or for) a Processor

Once you’ve broken through the Early Struggle, it’s time for Fun! This is when an organization’s myths and legends are built, the

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Optimizing Your Time in Fun

This week, our focus is on doing. From an exciting new book from Les entitled Do Lead, to an interview with Do

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New Book in Spring 2014, Great Work MBA, 21 Ways to Be a Better Leader | New at Predictable Success

A version of this article appeared at Inc.com Some leaders – specifically, those with a Visionary style – use debate and discussion

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Carpet-Bombing The Organization: Leaders Who Talk To Think

A version of this article appeared at Inc.com Who wouldn’t want to have customers and clients that are ‘fiercely loyal’? Sarah Robinson,

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How to Build Customers that are Fiercely Loyal

This week, we’re leading with leadership! From Inc.’s fastest-growing companies in the U.S. to Les’ recent appearance on Lead with Giants, and

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Les Heads to Washington, Lead With Giants, 3 Silent Business Killers | New at Predictable Success

A version of this article appeared at Inc.com This week’s decision by Steve Ballmer to step down as CEO of Microsoft is

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The Big Lesson Every Business Leader Must Draw From Steve Ballmer's Exit

This week, we’re bringing you news from New York, a new addition to our team, and some exciting developments for 2014… Let’s

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NYC News, Paperback Predictable Success, Cultivating Fierce Loyalty | New at Predictable Success

Sometimes you consciously check things off your bucket list, and occasionally something happens you didn’t know was on your list to begin with…That

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Cake, Growth, Great Work, Leadership and Content Management | New at Predictable Success

Michael Bungay Stanier is the founder and Senior Partner of Box of Crayons A company that helps organizations do less Good Work

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Michael Bungay Stanier on Doing Great Work

One of the great joys of my job is getting to share the stage with great people. Richard Branson, for example, and

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The 20 most powerful words in business; Last workshop of the year, panache from M B-S | New at Predictable Success

A version of this article appeared at Inc.com. You’re good. You wouldn’t be where you are if you weren’t. But you know

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How to achieve great things

 A version of this article first appeared at Inc.com. I bow to no-one in my embrace of new technology, and my first

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The 5 Apps I Want for Google Glasses

Apologies – the newsletter is a little late this week thanks to the chap below – I just couldn’t pull myself away

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Murray mania; Final workshop this year; Making the most of the summer | New at Predictable Success

 A version of this article first appeared at Inc.com . Ever dread getting stuck in a meeting with someone because they don’t

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How to Coach a Blowhard

I'm sure, like me, you find that some weeks you grind it out, and some weeks are a blessing. In my case,

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Bucket List; Jim Collins & Ray Odierno; Shawn Hunter; Do Great Things | New at Predictable Success

How to use Predictable Success to grow your own Consulting or Coaching Practice Are you looking for an additional string to the

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How to use Predictable Success to grow your own Consulting or Coaching Practice

 A version of this article first appeared at Inc.com. We’ve all seen them – he has the leadership swagger, she has the

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The Tell-Tale Sign You're a Poseur, Not a Leader

 A version of this article first appeared at Inc.com. Most great leaders are self-contained individuals. (Not surprising, really, given that the process

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Three Leadership Weaknesses You Can't Fix on Your Own

I usually write this newsletter the day it goes out – a Sunday – or on the Saturday before. I enjoy the

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Building a practice, how not to be needy, second printing | New at Predictable Success

A version of this article first appeared in Inc.comGiven the ubiquity these days of 360 assessments, rounded feedback and executive coaching, you’d

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3 Things No-one Tells You You're Screwing Up

I left my voice behind in Rockford, IL. And not just some of it. All of it. As a result, those near

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Lost voice, The little engine that could, C-C-C-Coaching | New at Predictable Success

I’ve spent most of my life – certainly since my late teens – in the shadow of another Les McKeown. As the

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The end of competitive advantage; getting out of your own way; final public workshop of the year | New at Predictable Success

A version of this article first appeared at Inc.com. We’ve all been there: you get a promotion, or a new job, or

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How to fix your dysfunctional boss

 A version of this article first appeared at Inc.com. There you are battling away month after month in difficult surroundings, giving it

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Why You're Not Getting the Leadership Recognition You Deserve

Just back from a busy two weeks. First in Oxford, England for my eldest daughter’s wedding, then New Orleans for the Inc

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Casey Graham; Hardest Skill for a Leader; Weddings & Webinars | New at Predictable Success

As you’ll see below, David and I have been working flat out on our biggest project of 2013 – the Predictable Success

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LPP launched, Conscious Capitalism, Tech that deadens, Your book recommendations | New at Predictable Success

Some of you have emailed asking where my promised list of the best business books of 2012 has got to. I confess:

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Getting out of Early Struggle, 2012 book of the year, 15 to follow, Turning vision into reality | New at Predictable Success

Does it feel like your new venture just won’t ‘take flight’? Are you plugging away month after month, but achieving no momentum

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Getting out of Early Struggle and into Fun

You’d be surprised how hard it is to get a real sturdy flip chart. Let alone two.I don’t use powerpoint in my

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Typhoons, Flipcharts, Operators and Legacies | New at Predictable Success