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When Work Friendships Hurt Your Company

We’re just over the halfway point of the year. Are your revenue and profit numbers on track? If not, your Sales team is certainly under a lot of pressure to fix the issue and make up for the deficit, quick. That kind of stress can quickly put a department back into a reactive, symptom-solving mode

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What If You Get Stuck While Running on EOS?

Most people think once you implement the Entrepreneurial Operating System®, your biggest problems are behind you for good. Ironically, that’s exactly when your greatest challenges can strike. I have a client in Saginaw, Michigan—a 20+ year-old company that had just seen its best sales and profits in the company’s history. The leadership team was as

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Here’s What Happened at the 2018 EOS Client Conference

I recently attended the 2nd Annual EOS Client Conference in Minneapolis. More than 600 people gathered from all over North America – representatives from companies as well as EOS Implementers. While many people were meeting each other for the first time, you wouldn’t know it. The entire weekend was more like a reunion of old

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What Happens If You Roll Out EOS Too Early?

Your leadership team is excited about the Entrepreneurial Operating System® and starting to see real improvements. You’re getting more done, communicating better, and starting to gain traction like never before. Time to start rolling out EOS throughout your company! Not so fast.   Before you roll out EOS, read these cautionary tales and take note.

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Thanks For Firing Me

On your journey to becoming your best in business, you’ll need to make some tough people decisions. Usually those decisions revolve around Right People/Right Seat issues. In the EOS Process™ we use the People Analyzer™ with GWC™ (Get It/Want It/Capacity to Do It) to identify the root cause of a team’s specific people-related issues. The most common people issues are:

  • Wrong Person/Right Seat – someone who doesn’t share the core values but is in the Right Seat.
  • Right Person/Wrong Seat a person who shares the core values but is in the Wrong Seat, i.e., they don’t get it, want it, or have the capacity to do it.

Sometimes the tough people decision is to fire an employee who doesn’t get it, want it, or have the capacity to do the job. One of my clients recently had to make that tough decision. Afterwards, the Visionary told me about the way the employee responded to being fired.

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How Is EOS Any Different from the Last System You Tried?

Many companies have tried other systems and processes before implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System®. Almost without exception, they’ve tried multiple systems, and they’ve all fizzled out. Most leadership teams have some anxiety when they’re coming into the EOS Process™. They often fear that EOS will be just like every other attempt to adopt a system.

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