Implementer Posts
From one founder to another…
It shouldn’t be this hard, should it? Why do we keep having the same problems? These type of questions haunted me for years…around 2010 especially. I’d finish another long day, twelve hours of meetings, firefighting, and chasing work that should’ve been done weeks ago, and sit there wondering, why do the same problems keep coming back? I remember breaking down in front of a client once… it was horrible. We’d failed their project by introducing new technology we simply weren’t ready for, magento 2. In the end, we gave them all their money back and connected them with a better team for the job. It was one of the lowest points of my career. It must be me, I used to think. Maybe I wasn’t a strong enough leader. Maybe I wasn’t cut out for this. I’d built something from nothing, but somehow it felt like it was owning me instead of
EOS Helps Entrepreneurs Turn Chaos Into Clarity
BY KELLY HITE with BIZ NEW ORLEANS NEW ORLEANS – When hard work isn’t enough to prevent a company from losing direction, the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) offers a roadmap back to clarity and control. The system has guided 250,000 companies worldwide to clarify their vision, strengthen collaboration and achieve steady, sustainable growth. For Niki Wilson, a Professional EOS Implementer based in… READ FULL ARTICLE
If You Have to Manage People, You Hired the Wrong Ones
“If you have to manage people, you’ve made a hiring mistake.” — Jim Collins, Good to Great By Darren Hitchcock, Professional EOS Implementer®Published on: eosworldwide.com/darren-hitchcock Every time I share that quote with business owners, I get the same reaction — a mix of laughter, discomfort, and quiet agreement. Because deep down, most founders know it’s true. They just don’t know how to make it real in their world. In small and mid-sized businesses, managing people often feels like a full-time job. You’re chasing accountability putting out fires and trying to motivate people who don’t seem to care as much as you do. It’s exhausting 😮💨 — and it’s not what you signed up for when you started this business. Why You’re Managing Too Much If your days are filled with check-ins, reminders, and “just circling back” messages, it’s not because you’re a bad leader.It’s because you’ve built a business that requires
Dealing with people issues in SME’s: Time is the enemy!
The Hemorrhaging Hour: Why Your “Good Enough” People are Bleeding Your SME Dry Every minute counts. Except when it doesn’t. Here’s the truth most business leaders don’t want to hear: that seat filled with someone merely adequate is costing you more than leaving it empty. While you’ve been congratulating yourself for avoiding the “cost of vacancy,” you’ve been hemorrhaging something far more valuable—time, momentum, and the loyalty of your actual performers.partnershipemployment+2 The business world loves to preach about the cost of unfilled positions. Consultants will calculate it down to the euro: €461 per day here, €768 there. But nobody’s calculating the infinitely higher cost of the wrong person occupying that seat, day after day, meeting after meeting, decision after decision.4cornerresources+1 Time isn’t money. Time is your only non-renewable resource. And the wrong people don’t just waste it—they weaponize it against you. The Comfortable Lie We Keep Telling Ourselves SMEs face
So You Hired an EOS Implementer. Now What?
Alright, let’s address the question most leaders won’t say out loud. You’ve hired an EOS Implementer, everyone nodded enthusiastically during the 90-Minute Meeting, & now you’re thinking, “Fantastic, someone else can fix this circus for us.” Not quite. Working with an Implementer isn’t a magic wand. They won’t carry your business over the finish line while you sip flat whites. What you will get is a very real mirror held up to your business. If you’ve got people in the wrong seats, processes that barely exist, or leadership habits that have outstayed their welcome, expect to face it head on. The Implementer will guide, teach & facilitate, but you still have to do the heavy lifting. The good news is that if you lean into the discomfort, follow the process properly & stop cherry picking, you’ll finally get the traction you’ve been complaining about not having. So what now? Show
Why New Orleans Leadership Teams Are Turning to EOS® to Scale Their Businesses
In the heart of New Orleans, where relationships run deep and business is built on trust, something powerful is taking root—The Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS). If you’re a small to mid-sized business owner or leadership team member in the Greater New Orleans area, you may have already heard of EOS from a peer, a networking event, or a leadership podcast. And if you haven’t yet, you’re about to. EOS is quickly becoming the go-to business operating system in New Orleans for one simple reason: it works. What Is EOS®? EOS is a complete set of practical tools and timeless business principles that help leadership teams get what they want from their business. It’s not theory. It’s not fluff. It’s a proven framework to strengthen six key components of your organization: Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process, and Traction. As Gino Wickman, creator of EOS and author of Traction, puts it: “Vision