Why Visionaries Have No Rocks
We want to share with you a short and sweet philosophy that we have about Visionaries and Rocks. It’s basically this: The Visionary should have no Rocks.
We want to share with you a short and sweet philosophy that we have about Visionaries and Rocks. It’s basically this: The Visionary should have no Rocks.
Rocks serve as building blocks to achieving your 10-Year Target™. These represent the major leaps your company takes in the exact amount of time your people’s attention spans last.
To help leadership teams to ‘Rock their Rocks’ and consistently complete what they commit to, I now get them to follow a simple Rock Completion checklist.
One of the most powerful skills EOS® facilitates is the power of predicting a successful outcome. The cornerstone of this power is Rocks.
In order to start uncovering your hidden company rock stars, you have to delegate like crazy and make your employees stronger.
Rocks are just priorities — the 3 to 7 most important things you must accomplish in the next ninety days. Company rocks are priorities for the company, departmental rocks are priorities for your department, and individual rocks are priorities for you or another individual. As simple as that sounds, it’s easy to overcomplicate rocks.

There is no magic formula for what constitutes a rock — it’s simply a priority that will take longer than 7 days (those action items are To-Dos) and up to ninety days to complete.
Here are a few questions I get asked often in sessions, with corresponding answers.