Entrepreneurial Operating System

EOS® for Sales: Your Sales Process

EOS® for Sales: Your Sales Process

This is a note especially for those in the Sales seat. My rock this quarter was to implement Pipedrive - a CRM tool - so I have been thinking a lot about the Sales seat I sit in on my own accountability chart. EOS tries to keep this simple for you as the Sales leader...

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3 Tips for Self-Guiding/Facilitating your EOS® Journey

3 Tips for Self-Guiding/Facilitating your EOS® Journey

I was recently in a conversation with a visionary who asked about facilitating their own quarterly and ‘graduating’. I did not hide my joy, and reminded him that they had ‘graduated’ a long time ago so it only makes sense for them to try facilitating their own...

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EOS® for Visionaries: Your Unique Abilities

EOS® for Visionaries: Your Unique Abilities

Remember Focus Day when your name went into the Visionary seat?In watching visionaries grow into their roles, the top 2 frustrations I continue to hear are: I do not even know what I am supposed to do in this seatI feel like my input isn’t appreciated anymore Do these...

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EOS® for Integrators: Three Tools for Integrators

EOS® for Integrators: Three Tools for Integrators

This is a post for integrators only, to remind you of three tools you should be revisiting with the team annually as a way of proactively helping them reset some of the habits we built during the first two years of your EOS journey. LMA Review – The 10 things...

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EOS® for Human Resources: Development & Onboarding

EOS® for Human Resources: Development & Onboarding

This is a note especially for those in the HR Seat. The two things I see the team needing you to own are: the development of new leaders and helping to onboard new leaders. Here are a couple of tips for how to do this: Leadership + Management = Accountability (LMA):...

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The Biggest Barrier to Delegation

I can't let go of that; if I don't empty the trash, who will?These young people have no work ethic; if I don't mow the lawn, who will do it? People have to get paid around here; if I don't double-check all the time sheets, how will it get done? In my Delegating...

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The Most Valuable Hour in Your Week

The Most Valuable Hour in Your Week

The ‘To-Do’ list on Monday often starts with what was left on Friday. Then the messages start coming in from the people that depend on us for things — boss, peers, customers, kids, spouse, aging parents, our team, and friends. Then we respond like we have on every other Monday — we get to work. Here is a solution that will cost you an hour and give you a return many times your investment.

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Matt Jung: Finding a Better Way | Part 3: Culture Guest Blog Series

Matt Jung: Finding a Better Way | Part 3: Culture Guest Blog Series

With their placement on Forbes’ list of the nation’s best small companies for 2018, it’s clear that there is something special going on at Comfort Research. In this interview with co-founder Matt Jung, he describes how they’ve developed a culture that’s felt in everything they do, how they recognize people who live their values, and how this tireless focus on culture has transformed their business.

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Mandi Brower: Be Kind | Part 2: Culture Guest Blog Series

Mandi Brower: Be Kind | Part 2: Culture Guest Blog Series

Quality Car Wash is a third-generation family business that was started back in 1969. In this interview with COO Mandi Brower, she shares her wisdom and experience around culture and how to intentionally sustain and grow it as a business opens multiple locations. From the very beginning, her grandpa used a simple phrase to guide everyone: “Be kind.” It still provides the foundation to this day.

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