Listen to Les McKeown read this blog post: A note on context:I'm re-upping a series of blog posts I originally wrote in

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Why organizations stumble in a crisis

By Les McKeown, CEO of Predictable Success It’s no secret that travel this summer is proving even more stressful than usual, thanks

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The TSA: Here's What Happens Next

By Les McKeown, CEO of Predictable Success Given recent press reports, it’s somewhat eye-popping to recall the near-adulation that accompanied Marissa Mayer’s

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Yahoo's Fatal Mistake

Apologies for the Yoda-like speech pattern, but a brilliant Processor doth not a Visionary make. Some Processors are truly geniuses in how

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Don't confuse brilliance with Vision

Ever wonder why every month brings another tale of a badly handled corporate disaster (here’s last year’s haul: BP, HP, Netflix, Groupon,

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How to flourish in any crisis

One of the inviolable laws I’ve uncovered over the years is that wherever there is gridlock or compromise, there is always a

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Why you're stuck

Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) CEO Brian Moynihan is a prime example of an interesting dynamic that has emerged in recent months

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Bank of America's Beached Leadership

Well, as I predicted in July 2009, Carol Bartz couldn’t stop Yahoo’s slide into The Big Rut.Now Yahoo has done what any

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Yahoo: An exit presages the end

On Monday we saw how Steve Jobs genius is clearly an important element of Apple’s success. On Wednesday we saw that for

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HP: Genius need not apply (for now)

Many leaders – be they Visionaries, Operators or Processors – have spent the last three years strategizing, motivating, cajoling, mentoring and role-modeling

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The exhausted leader

We’ve seen frequently how all groups and teams – including yours – comprises people who have one of three default leadership/management styles:

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Living in a different world

Yesterday we looked at the number #1 reason businesses fail to grow consistently – because they have the wrong team.So why do

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Why your team - large or small - isn't delivering growth

I can’t take credit for this saying (it appears to have been coined by a chap called Frank Kostonis), but it is

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Boardroom Rules 1: The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'