Have you ever shown up for a meeting and no one knows its purpose? And then you spend the first 15 minutes finding your way or trying to figure out what the objective is? Ever been to one where you’re wondering who is running the meeting?
In EOS terminology, GWC stands for Gets It, Wants It, and has the Capacity to do the job. It’s half of what we mean when we say you should follow the EOS analog to Jim Collin’s dictum and Get All the Right People in All the Right Seats. Besides sharing your values, each employee should be perfect for the position, or seat, being filled. I provide additional detail in an earlier post entitled How Do You Decide Who You Should Hire?
In the past several years, I have been regularly impressed by leadership teams that have achieved “big” things. At the front end looking forward, it was logical for each team, based upon their history, to conclude, “There’s no way we’ll do this.”
In each EOS session, I ask clients if there are any “people issues”. To create clarity around any discussion about people we use the Accountability Chart™ and the People Analyzer™. It’s amazing how quickly these two tools focus the discussion and take egos, opinions and emotions about people issues out of the debate.
In this short video, Steve Jobs talks about managing people at Apple. I am pleased to see him espouse the same principles we talk about when implementing EOS with companies. I should not be surprised at this since we always tell all our clients that EOS is based on timeless management principles; they have been around for 100 years and they will be around for 1,000 more.
A key to gaining traction in your business is to put together a leadership team consisting of people who share the company’s vision with you. Creating a team of people who each have clear accountabilities and who are prepared to take initiative when it comes to leading their people is a critical part of developing a successful business. Your leadership team must also be willing to be open and honest about all issues. When you have the right people in the right seats for your leadership team, everything else you build within the company will be based upon that structure.
