Having now worked very closely with over 100 companies, I find it easy to provide some very interesting stats on a percentage basis. One, which is the subject of this message, has to do with changes to leadership teams during the EOS Process. I’ve found that 80 percent of the time, one or more people change on the leadership team within the first two years of beginning the process.
It’s easy for many of us to see an issue as a bad thing – something to be avoided. After all, issues usually lead to some measure of discomfort, so why shouldn’t we avoid them?
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.
EOS Worldwide, creators of the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®), recently announced the launch of the company’s innovative 3-Day Business Accelerator training for executive business coaches, consultants, trainers and entrepreneurs. The live events, designed to be the first step in becoming a certified EOS Implementer™, are held once each quarter from the EOS Worldwide headquarters in Livonia, Michigan, with the next scheduled workshops taking place November 15-17, 2011 and February 14-16, 2012.
Recently I sat in on weekly Level 10 Meetings with two of my clients. In both cases, as they were adding issues to their issues list, I noticed leaders saying something that negatively affected the quality of their meetings. In the first case, the repeated statement was, “We need to talk about …”, and the second case was almost identical, “We need to discuss …”.
