EOS Graduation: Achieve Your Independence!

in·de·pend·ence (noun): not dependent; strong and able to survive on one’s own. When embarking on a journey to implement EOS, the goal is to regain control of your business. That happens when you become strong in the Six Key Components™.  At that point, you’ve got a clear vision, great people, and are executing with confidence. […]

Grow or Die?

Grow or Die? #LEADNOW

“When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn’t work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form — or a species — will either die or become extinct or rise above the […]

There’s a Tool for That

workshop tools hanging up Tool (noun): “An instrument…used in performing a task necessary in the practice of a vocation.”

For most people, that definition may evoke the image of a carpenter using a hammer, a quilter using a needle and thread, or an electrician using a pair of needle-nose pliers. All simple and practical tools are used by people with varying levels of skill and experience to build, or fix, or create something.

Are Your Actions Undermining Your Words?

man walking into blockaded sidewalk | are your actions undermining your words?Carl Jung famously said, “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.”

As clear and simple as that statement is, I’ve seen hundreds of otherwise successful leaders behave as though it doesn’t apply. If you want to quickly kill your company’s culture, consider making that mistake yourself. 

Perfect is the Enemy of Done

Perfect is the enemy of done 2Wayne Gretzky said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” Having spent more than 1,000 days in the trenches with entrepreneurs and their leadership teams, I can safely say that quotation applies just as well to business as it does to sports. Because when it comes to making decisions, calling things “done”, and launching important work—leaders and teams fall into three camps.

Five Steps to Achieving Organizational Accountability

Accountability

In the last four years, I’ve asked several hundred leaders from nearly 100 entrepreneurial companies to rate the level of “Organizational Accountability” in their companies from 1-10, with 10 being best. The average response?

Business Vision – Where is Your Business Taking You?

To say my dear grandfather is a “serial planner” is something of an understatement. A high-school math teacher and slide-rule expert, his love of details, structure and discipline is legendary. Whenever he travels anywhere, friends and family receive copies of a detailed itinerary well in advance, carefully hand-printed on a pristine sheet of – you guessed it – graph paper.