What if your team isn’t confused about the direction? What if they just don’t believe in it? I’ve been thinking about that lately when it comes to the Vision/Traction Organizer. When the V/TO isn’t landing with the team, I think our instinct is often to assume we have a communication problem. Maybe we haven’t talked … Read more
I’ve been rereading Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras. In the newer edition, they build on the Hedgehog Concept that Collins introduced in Good to Great and make a distinction I hadn’t spent much time thinking about before. They describe two kinds of hedgehogs: content hedgehogs and process hedgehogs. A content … Read more
Twenty-seven years ago, I was sitting in an electronics engineering lab staring at a screen full of static. Somewhere inside all that noise was the information I actually needed. The problem was, I couldn’t see it until I filtered everything else out. Years later, I realized I had created the same problem for myself running … Read more
I’ve spent a lot of my career watching entrepreneurs wait for certainty. Sometimes it’s around a hire. Sometimes it’s an investment or an idea they’re not quite ready to put into the world. I understand the instinct. Nobody wants to make the wrong call. But the entrepreneurs who tend to get what they want seem … Read more
Today I want to talk about not taking growth for granted. Since I became Visionary at EOS Worldwide, we’ve gone from a $9 million business to one that will close this year at around $37 million in revenue. That’s a pretty good amount of growth and something we’re proud of. But not all growth is … Read more
Last week, I was in Detroit for one of our Quarterly Collaborative Exchanges, where EOS Implementers come together to work on mastery, purity, community, and The EOS Life. At some point, a few Implementers asked me a question I probably should’ve been asking myself: How am I doing at living The EOS Life? So I … Read more
