Why do so many teams fail to perform - achieving compromise at best and gridlock at worst? And what does it take to end this gridlock? Wall Street Journal bestselling author and speaker Les McKeown shows how to take any team from gridlock to world class success. 
In his new book, McKeown argues that every successful team includes a critical player, the Synergist, who can take the three existing types - The bold dreamers (Visionaries), the pragmatic realists (Operators), and the systems designers (Processors) - and knit them together into a dynamic, well-rounded team. Most importantly, according to McKeown, the Synergist is a role that anyone can learn. 
While most attempts at teamwork improvement deal only with the symptoms of group dysfunction such as distrust, poor communication, and fear of change, McKeown address the root cause: the innately unstable Visionary-Operator-Processor triangle. Because each of the three styles' motivations, views, and goals are incompatible, without a Synergist every team will eventually implode, stall, or underperform. Only the Synergist can put aside their own agenda and interpret the language of difficult personalities, capture the best from each person, and put the good of the enterprise ahead of their own ego. 
McKeown- who has used techniques presented here in his consulting with Harvard University, American Express Financial Services, the US Army, Pella Corporation, Microsoft, United Technologies Corporation, and more- shows how any individual can fill this critical role, whether or not they're the formal leader of the group. 
With thought-provoking self-assessments and an extensive Synergist Toolkit, he teaches how anyone can learn to be an effective Synergist by recognizing the vital signs of ineffective teamwork and making the right interventions at these pivotal moments.

The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success

Business & Money

McKeown, Les

Management & Leadership

St.Martin's Press

For those who dream of starting their own company, influencing decision-making, or expertly managing a team, here is an easy-to-follow guide to all aspects of leadership. Author Les McKeown draws on his decades of experience as a CEO and leadership consultant to deliver expert advice on what it takes to be a visionary leader, blending practical advice with illuminating examples from a range of industries. Encouraging and empowering, Do Lead is an essential tool on the path to becoming a great leader.

Do Lead: Share your vision. Inspire others. Achieve the impossible. (Business Leadership and Entrepreneurship Book, Gift for Aspiring Entrepreneurs and College Graduates) (Do Books)

Chronicle Books+

If you own, manage or work for any kind of organization, you have one goal above all else--success. And not just occasional, elusive or temporary success. You're looking for: 
<ul>
<li>Success that you understand and can control</li> <li>Success you can maintain indefinitely</li> <li>Success you can replicate</li> <li>Success you can scale</li> <li>Success that isn't dependent on you alone</li> <li>Success that you can teach to others</li> </ul> In short, you're looking for Predictable Success. In this timely, no-nonsense guide, experienced business advisor Les McKeown takes you step-by-step through a startlingly simple, intuitive and universal process that shows you how to bring sustained, lasting, predictable success to your organization. Steeped in a street-smart, savvy insider's deep understanding of exactly how business works in the real world, Predictable Success provides you with a precise road map to success, starting from wherever you are today. Whatever your challenge, Predictable Success shows you the exact steps to take to restore equilibrium to your organization, re-ignite confidence in your own management skills and lead your team forward to the next stage in growth. ''Les McKeown is absolutely on top of his game. Les not only knows--and shows--how your businesses can grow and succeed, he explains it a way that is intuitive, entertaining and immediately actionable.'' --Darryl Hutson, Chief Executive Officer, American Express Incentive Services ''Les McKeown has for over 5 years assisted us in the growth and development of our distributorship network. His understanding of what makes a business succeed--and a passionate commitment to teaching others how to accomplish 'Predictable Success'--has been our secret weapon and can be yours, too.'' --Mel Haught, CEO, Pella Corp (world leading manufacturer of windows and doors)

Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track-and Keeping It There

Greenleaf Book Group, LLC

No matter what kind of organization you work for, whether it's your own small business or a global Fortune 100 company, your number-one goal is success. Predictable Success takes you step-by-step through a startlingly simple, intuitive, and universal process that shows you how to bring sustained, lasting, predictable success to your organization. Find out where your organization is today and take the uncertainty out of tomorrow as you make the journey towards Predictable Success.

Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track-And Keeping It There

Greenleaf Book Group Press

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER No matter what kind of organization you work for, whether it's your own small business or a global Fortune 100 company, your number-one goal is success. Predictable Success takes you step-by-step through a startlingly simple, intuitive, and universal process that shows you how to bring sustained, lasting, predictable success to your organization.
 Find out where your organization is today and take the uncertainty out of tomorrow as you make the journey towards Predictable Success.

FROM THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER 
No matter what kind of organization you work for, whether it's your own small business or a global Fortune 100 company, your number-one goal is success. Predictable Success takes you step-by-step through a startlingly simple, intuitive, and universal process that shows you how to bring sustained, lasting, predictable success to your organization. 
Find out where your organization is today and take the uncertainty out of tomorrow as you make the journey towards Predictable Success.

Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track—and Keeping It There

River Grove Books

“A cracking read, funny, witty and self-deprecating. Les spares no one, least of all himself” – Lorraine Kelly“There’s no shortage of juicy revelations to shock his former fans” – Edinburgh Evening NewsIn 1973, at the age of 18, Les McKeown became the lead singer of the Bay City Rollers, at that stage a one-hit-wonder pop group on the verge of giving up. His charismatic personality and unique voice transformed the Rollers into an international super-group that reached the top of the charts all over the world.Les was the catalyst for mass hysteria not witnessed since the days of Beatlemania. By 1975, he was the most adored man on the planet. Four years later, he was homeless and penniless after quitting the Rollers. Shang-A-Lang reveals the remarkable story of the boy from the back streets of Edinburgh whose dream came true and how that dream was shattered. A compelling, thought-provoking and amusing account of Rollermania and beyond, Shang-A-Lang takes a revealing trip through the many ups and downs in the life of one of the music industry's bona fide survivors and provides a candid insight into the less savoury aspects of the music industry.

Shang-A-Lang: My Life With The Bay City Rollers

Biographies & Memoirs

Elliott, Lynne

Arts & Literature

Independently published

Shang-a-Lang: Life as an International Pop Idol

The roller-coaster rise to stardom of Les McKeown, who transformed the Bay City Rollers from a one-hit-wonder boy-band into a super-group, and his subsequent descent into near destitution after quitting the band. It is a remarkable story of extremes, and a no-holds barred account of Rollermania. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Shang-A-Lang: Life as an International Pop Idol

Mainstream Publishing

This book tells the story of the roller-coaster rise to stardom of Les McKeown, who transformed the Bay City Rollers from a one-hit-wonder boy band into a super-group, and his subsequent descent into near destitution after quitting the band. It is a remarkable story of extremes, and a no-holds barred account of Rollermania.

Real-world leadership is very different from all that the media would have us believe. Forget the dashing swashbuckler, effective leadership is typically understated. It's the myriad small things that make the big things possible. In Do Lead, Les McKeown demolishes the myths that have paralysed leadership in our modern era, then provides newt tools for the job. You'll discover that we can all lead. And what's more, we should. Because effective leadership is goal- not people-oriented. It's about the person with the right skills putting themselves forward. Find out: • The mindset required • The basic leadership toolkit • Techniques for dealing with the (inevitable) failures Whether you are new to the game or reigniting a dormant passion, start leading from where you are, right now. And start to make a difference. You can lead. Yes, you.

Do Lead: Share your vision. Inspire others. Achieve the impossible. (Do Books, 9)

The Do Book Co.

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The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success

Do Lead: Share your vision. Inspire others. Achieve the impossible. (Business Leadership and Entrepreneurship Book, Gift for Aspiring Entrepreneurs and College Graduates) (Do Books)

Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track-and Keeping It There

Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track-And Keeping It There

Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track-And Keeping It There

Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track—and Keeping It There

Shang-A-Lang: My Life With The Bay City Rollers

Shang-A-Lang: Life as an International Pop Idol

Shang-a-Lang: Life as an International Pop Idol

Do Lead: Share your vision. Inspire others. Achieve the impossible. (Do Books, 9)