Steve McKee

Author of ‘When Growth Stalls’, Steve is also president of McKee Wallwork Cleveland Advertising, a firm that specializes in helping stalled companies rekindle growth and a BusinessWeek columnistIn this interview Steve shares:

• » How and why he became an entrepreneur – and why he viewed it as his ‘least risk option’;
• » The biggest surprise he uncovered in becoming an entrepreneur;
• » The role of risk-taking in business success;
• » What happened when his business hit Whitewater;
• » Why he felt like a fraud receiving the INC 500 award and how it changed his approach to business growth;
• » What he found out when he surveyed all the previous winners of the INC 500 business growth award;
• » The key difference between the 18% of companies where growth had stalled and those that continued to grow;
• » The four main reasons that business growth strategies fail, and why they often lie unrecognized by management;
• » How to build strong leadership that delivers consensus-based decision-making;
• » What ‘brand ego’ is, and how it can lead to a stall in your business growth;
• » Why doubt and the burden of failure can lead management to mistakenly “cut off its future”;
• » The first place to begin when seeking to reverse a business growth ‘stall’ ;
• » Getting the balance right between leadership and systems and processes in executing a business growth strategy;

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(Running time is approximately 30 minutes.)

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Steve McKee’s excellent book “When Growth Stalls” is a superb compliment to “Predictable Success”. If you are serious about developing and implementing a sustainable growth strategy I highly recommend reading both books together.
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