Recently I’ve been having very poor free days. I was having trouble letting go of all the activities I have going on during my supposed “time off”. Feeling totally out of control, I decided to take a step back and reflect what was going on. Keeping a Scorecard with Give You Peace of Mind Here’s what I found.  First, you have to have a scorecard.  Seems strange, but if you don’t have a scorecard you end up getting stressed out about things that you don’t need to be.  The issue is if you don’t know your numbers, and you don’t keep track, it will keep you up at night.  During my busy season, I wasn’t having The Level 10 Meeting™ with my assistant.  Boy was that a mistake! Have Weekly Meetings With Your Team As I mentioned, I stopped having my L10 meetings.  This was a huge mistake that I will never make

Entrepreneurs love to go fast.  I know I do.  As a result, we tend to go at it alone and leave people behind.  The reality is that building a leadership team is probably the most important thing you can do as a business owner.  It requires hard work, discipline and can take years to build and maintain a cohesive leadership team. The question is always, how do I start building a team?  What does a great team look like?  Patrick Lencioni, says “the essence of a cohesive leadership team is trust, which is marked by an absence of politics, unnecessary anxiety, and wasted energy” in The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. I’ve been on teams that are healthy and a few that are unhealthy.  I can tell you that there is a world of difference.  When you are on an unhealthy team, you are stressed out, tired, and unproductive.  The

Process is one of the Six Key Components™ of the EOS Model™ and a key part of any great business operating system. Throughout your EOS® journey we focus a lot of effort on ensuring that your processes are documented and followed by all. Working “On” Your Business During The EOS Process™, we begin by encouraging you to work “on” your business (e.g. taking time to create your setting your vision, planning for traction and becoming a healthy and cohesive team). Working “on” your business involves doing the things to help make it a resilient, stable and valuable enterprise. You spend the majority of your time working “in” your business, delivering your product or service. Taking time to work “on” your business is a key piece of helping you gain more control and increase its valuation. Your Business is Made Up of a Few Core Processes The more time that you spend working “on” your business,

Decision Fatigue: A Psychological Phenomenon and How to Combat It A New Understanding of Focus, Decisions, and Self-Control A recent psychological study by Stanford scientists found that humans operate with daily reserves of self control. These reserves deplete as we expend them throughout the day. Similarly, our ability to rationally make decisions over the course of the day is also a resource with set quantities. The implications here are pretty jarring. No matter how many times we promise ourselves we will be disciplined and stay on track, we only have a set amount of self-control units we can use through the smallest of decisions all the way up to major initiatives. Focus Levels Your self-control and focus are like fuel reserves. Focus reserves decrease as we use them no matter what we do. When we run out of reserves, even small decisions feel daunting. If you’ve ever splurged on a shopping

What is a Traction Coach? A Traction Coach, or an EOS Implementer, passionately helps entrepreneurs break through the ceiling.  A Traction Coach helps you and your team accomplish this by teaching to all Six Key Components™ of your business. Traction Coaches: Teach you every tool in the EOS Toolbox™ Facilitate clarity, alignment, and resolution Coach EOS purity, accountability, and helping the leadership team become its best Professional and Certified EOS Implementers There is a worldwide community of over 250+ Traction coaches are who help entrepreneurs get what they want from their businesses. Traction coaches who are part of the EOS community share the EOS Core Values. These core values are: Humbly confident – Open, honest, real, and well-practiced, ready to make a positive difference Grow or die – Driven to maximize every situation and to take ourselves and our clients to the next level Help first – Subordinating our personal interests to

When Something Sparkles… We have a term to describe tempting opportunities outside of organizations’ core competencies: “Shiny Things” Like sparkling diamonds or the flashing lights of fame, these opportunities beckon. Shiny things lure even the most rational leadership teams into poor strategic choices with real implications. Is that opportunity “core” or is it a “lure”? To illustrate, I’ll share an experience I had with a company implementing EOS whose leader is an excitable, passionate visionary. The Pretext: Hammering Their Niche As fine art publishers, this particular client specialized in licensed fine art featuring many characters that would be recognized by virtually anyone on the planet. Fortunately for my facilitation, this company played in the same high-end licensed fine art space where I cut my teeth as a business operator early in my career. If you are having trouble picturing their products, they specialized in a mix of nostalgia and mastery.