When business coaches talk about selecting an operating system for a business, they aren’t talking about whether to go with Microsoft, Apple or Linux products. Just as a computer’s operating system organizes day-to-day activities and long term data points in order to simplify tasks and store information, a company’s operating system consists of the ways that business is carried out by the leadership team and all employees in the course of daily business.
Journey Stage: Exploring EOS
Base Camp
EOS Worldwide has created a world-class web environment, along with all the tools necessary to teach an Implementer and provide everything necessary to build a successful, thriving, coaching practice. Beyond that, Base Camp also gives the Implementer every tool that their clients will use to change their companies in dramatic ways. For the Professional Implementer as well as the individual Implementer, everything they need is all in one place, with easy access and functionality.
You Cannot Build a Great Organization on Multiple Operating Systems—You Must Choose One
The above title is our EOS Creed. Simply put, if you want a great enduring company, everyone on your leadership team must speak the same language and play by the same rules.
Hitting the Ceiling – Reaching Your Limits as a Business Owner
Barbara Taylor runs a retail coffee and espresso business in Arkansas. She wrote a post in the small business section of the New York Times in June 2011, entitled Reaching Your Limits As A Business Owner. What she has to say about hitting a wall will resonate with owners of companies implementing EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System.
What Are You Obsessing About?
In one of our recent quarterly sessions, each leader on our EOS Worldwide leadership team invested a few minutes to compile a list of the few things we were going to obsess about going forward.
What is the Psychographic of Your Ideal Customer or Client?
In most cases, an entrepreneur believes that “everyone” is a potential customer. This is simply not true, and after clarity is achieved, a substantially lower number of candidates is revealed. That’s the bad news. The great news is that this smaller number—when you identify who, what, and where they are, and align all your marketing and sales resources and efforts around them—means that you’ll drastically increase your business-development results.