The day after Thanksgiving is my favorite day of the year! We’ve just spent a day with family, and now we have a three-day weekend. This day is typically spent outdoors—hiking, snowshoeing or maybe cutting down a Christmas tree. But one thing is for sure: I toast the start of the holiday season with an eggnog latte. Every year, that latte reminds me that I want to make my own eggnog, but all my research shows that the longer it ages, the better it tastes (though my husband would argue it never tastes good). Well, this is the year for me to make eggnog! In my search for the perfect recipe I learned that eggnog was invented as a way to use up an abundance of eggs from early fall, when hens are laying aplenty due to the abundance of sunlight.  With sufficient sunlight, hens will lay an egg approximately every

The Key to Happy Holidays for Your Company With the holiday season coming up fast, do you find you’re asking yourself how you’re ever going to get caught up at work for the holidays? When you’re a business owner or leader, you are often torn between putting in the long hours it takes to keep your business running smoothly and spending time with your family at holiday events and gatherings. If you feel you can’t walk away from your work, and you’re stuck in the business with no one to delegate to, let’s talk. There is a better way. As a leader, it’s important that you take time away. It clears your mind, helps you refresh and come back better. We can work together to implement EOS into your work life and finally get you to where you are Doing What You Love. In Gino Wickman’s latest book The EOS

One of the most complicated aspects of conducting business operations through the pandemic has been how to foster tight team work and keep the circles connected in organizations, without burning everyone out through constant back-to-back video meetings. Many business owners and leadership teams I have been talking with are struggling to find the right balance that builds their group into a high-performing team. The Harvard Business Review recently published a great article, 5 Things High-Performing Teams Do Differently, detailing actions that High Performing Teams do that foster and enhance their team performance. As I read that article I was struck by the close connection between the actions the authors observed in their research, and the tools we use in EOS to enhance the cohesion and functioning of our clients’ organizational teams. The HBR authors identified five key differences in actions high performing teams demonstrated. Here is a summary of those actions

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f you are a business visionary leader, owner, founder, co-founder or partner and you are feeling stuck, frustrated, overwhelmed or out of control, we can fix this by getting you the help and support you need.  Often when I talk with business visionary owners who have built their business up from the ground, they tell me they are feeling like they have hit a ceiling.  To break through that ceiling they are searching for a way to get a great second in command with the right business chemistry to free up their time and allow the business to move to the next level. However, perhaps you are unsure about how to structure that second-in-command position, is it a President, General Manager or COO? How do you define the roles and accountabilities that go with the position? In EOS one of the first steps we go through when working with our

I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with a longtime colleague and business operations expert, Alicia Butler Pierre, Founder and CEO of Equilibria, Inc. Listen in to our conversation where I share how I grew up in a family of entrepreneurs, so it was only natural I’d become one myself. When I started my first venture, my co-founders didn’t think women belonged in leadership, so I left, started Goodwin Growth Works, and never looked back! Armed with a strong background in staffing and H.R., I’m on a mission to “…repair the world, one small business at a time.” One way I do that is through the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). In this episode, we talk about what EOS is and I share a case study of a company that applied it and grew sales by 32% each year for two years in a row. Discover the EOS formula for setting