As we celebrate Thanksgiving, it’s a great opportunity to be grateful for all the blessings in your life and business. Are you grateful for the people on your team? People issues make up the Number One frustration across business owners, as cited in an EOS Worldwide survey. A major portion of bosses’ time and energy is spent on resolving people issues because someone isn’t the Right Person in the Right Seat (RPRS). But sometimes, the RPRS is the one who becomes an issue. Surprisingly, your best employees can create headaches for you and your team. How can that be? These are the people you can always count on, whom you trust implicitly to do the right thing, and to do it with excellence. They fit your Core Values, they GWC their role and they even elevate the work of those around them. It’s simply a given that you can count on them—and

One of the easiest ways to throw off the EOS® Process™ for your entire company is by going on vacation. And summer is infamous for derailing businesses. Here’s what can happen. Joe goes on a two-week vacation. Monday morning, the rest of his team runs their Level 10 Meeting. Suddenly they realize that no one knows if Joe’s Rocks are on-track. They don’t know if his To-Dos are done. They can’t discuss the Issues that Joe had added to the Issues List. They can’t take care of any of those things, and it creates a logjam of issues that slows the team down.   In two weeks, Joe returns but now Barb is out on vacation. Now you’ve got a cascading effect of complexity, and things are getting tied up that affect other areas of the organization. Handpicked related content: Taking the Office With You on Vacation? The Wrong Way to Handle Vacations

We’re just over the halfway point of the year. Are your revenue and profit numbers on track? If not, your Sales team is certainly under a lot of pressure to fix the issue and make up for the deficit, quick. That kind of stress can quickly put a department back into a reactive, symptom-solving mode that they lived by before implementing EOS®.   I had a team that was struggling to meet their annual revenue goals. This team was made up of good people who were passionate and wanted to make a difference. Their leadership team of four had worked together for 14 years, so they knew each other quite well. They were friends in and out of work. They would go to industry conferences together, volunteer together, and do fun social activities outside of work. Because their work relationship and social relationship lines were blurred, it became difficult for the

Most people think once you implement the Entrepreneurial Operating System®, your biggest problems are behind you for good. Ironically, that’s exactly when your greatest challenges can strike. I have a client in Saginaw, Michigan—a 20+ year-old company that had just seen its best sales and profits in the company’s history. The leadership team was as cohesive as it had ever been, and they were solving Issue upon Issue and moving forward together. But it wouldn’t last.   Related content: What Does It Take to Succeed with EOS? Stalling Out on EOS® This company saw the success that EOS was bringing, and they got complacent. Soon they started skipping Level 10 Meetings™. At one point, a scheduling conflict came up and they postponed their Annual Planning Meeting™. And because they were enjoying such great success, they didn’t notice leading indicators on their Scorecard that revealed the sales pipeline was beginning to dry

I recently attended the 2nd Annual EOS Client Conference in Minneapolis. More than 600 people gathered from all over North America – representatives from companies as well as EOS Implementers. While many people were meeting each other for the first time, you wouldn’t know it. The entire weekend was more like a reunion of old friends, and the bond among them was instant. If you missed the event, here’s what happened – with an early glimpse of the 2019 conference.   What Happened at the EOS Conference? The theme I kept noticing throughout the two-day conference revolved around three main areas for companies that run on EOS: Connecting, Learning and Strengthening. Connecting The conference was designed to connect leaders from different businesses all over the country. Extended breaks and networking time at meals provided opportunities to form new relationships with other EOS companies. In many ways, these connections are more