Les McKeown
Inc.com
Washington, DC, United States
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10 Transformative Training Program Tips
Will your company's training contribute to keeping your business vibrant, or hasten a decline into irrelevance? → Read More
The 3 Decisions You Need to Make *Before* Writing Next Year’s Strategic Plan
If you want a plan that will actually deliver, answer these crucial questions first. → Read More
Keep Difficult Conversations From Turning Toxic
Even if you're a great communicator, the other person may not hear what you're saying the way you intended it. → Read More
4 Keys to Keeping Your Organization Competitive
Even the most Visionary business leaders struggle with it, whatever the size of the company and however famous the leader. → Read More
5 Ways Your Org Chart Is Strangling Your Culture (and Your Business)
Here's how to run a quick self-assessment. → Read More
Visionaries Lost in Translation
Visionaries have a vocabulary all their own - here's what their most common phrases really mean. → Read More
6 Steps to a Successful Q2
Don't be one of those in-denial leaders, take the time to tighten up your strategies in the light of reality. → Read More
Jeffrey Katzenberg Has a Howard Schultz Problem – And Here’s Why That Matters to You
Discover how such a formerly high-flying, iconic organization like DreamWorks can come so close to crashing and burning. → Read More
Cultivate Your Challenge Function
Here are four telltale signs that your business may be on its way to irrelevancy. → Read More
The Near-Term Future of Leadership
There will be big changes in the challenges you face as a leader over the next five years. → Read More
When It’s Time to Lose That Lovin’ Feelin’
As your business matures, one specific change will dramatically impact its internal culture above all else. → Read More
Where the Secrets Lie
Here are the five most powerful places prescient business leaders go. → Read More
4 Ways Your Strategic Plan May Be Taking You Off Course
See whether you're mistakenly treating these as strategies when they're actually something quite different. → Read More
To Succeed in 2015, You May Have to Fire this Person
Is someone on your team acting as a barrier to your future growth? → Read More
Is It Time to Disrupt Yourself?
The answer will determine whether you're the Johnny-come-lately to changes in your industry or the Netflix, the Apple, the Uber of it instead. → Read More
Why Your Strategic Plan May Be Your Biggest Road Block to Success in 2015
Sometimes the action required by an organization for success is so clear that over-planning will simply get in the way. → Read More
So You’ve Got the Right People On the Bus. But What If It’s Not a Bus Anymore?
If you want to successfully scale your business, be prepared to say goodbye to some of your superstars. → Read More
Why ‘Capacity’ is the Key to Success in 2015
It's not events that will shape your future next year - it's how your business reacts to those events that matters. → Read More
Why Your 2015 Strategic Plan Will Fail
The reasons why otherwise well-written plans fail in execution are unfailingly the same--irrespective of the size or nature of the business or the industry it's in. → Read More
How to Unlock Success For 2015: Look Up(stream)
The majority of business leaders spend too much time, money and energy trying to change the symptoms of stalled growth when they should be looking at the causes. → Read More