--- title: Hitting the Ceiling - Reaching Your Limits as a Business Owner description: Hitting the Ceiling - Reaching Your Limits as a Business Owner image: https://info.eosworldwide.com/hs-fs/file-3117539555-jpg/blog-files/istock_000006484081xsmall-300x199.jpg --- - [2020 EOS Conference](https://eosconference.com/) - Request a Speaker - [Become an EOS Implementer](https://eosi.eosworldwide.com) - [Find an EOS Implementer](https://eosimplementers.com/) - Contact - [**Login to Base Camp**](https://bc.eosworldwide.com) - [Base Camp](https://www.eosworldwide.com/base-camp-overview) - [Blog](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog) [MENU](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog/5539/eos/reaching-limits-business-owner/#sidr) - What is EOS? - [EOS Model](https://eosworldwide.hs-sites.com/eos-model) - [EOS Process](https://eosworldwide.hs-sites.com/eos-process) - [EOS Toolbox](https://eosworldwide.hs-sites.com/eos-toolbox) - [EOS History & Team](https://eosworldwide.hs-sites.com/eos-story-team) - [EOS Implementers](https://eosworldwide.hs-sites.com/what-is-an-eos-implementer) - Why EOS Works - [Why EOS Works](https://eosworldwide.hs-sites.com/why-eos-works) - [Real World Results](https://eosworldwide.hs-sites.com/testimonials) - [EOS Books](https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-library) - [EOS Tools](https://www.eosworldwide.com/eos-tools) - [Base Camp](https://www.eosworldwide.com/base-camp-overview) - [**Get Started**](https://eosworldwide.hs-sites.com/get-started) - [Find an EOS Implementer](https://www.eosimplementers.com) - [Become an Implementer](https://eosi.eosworldwide.com) - [Contact](https://eosworldwide.hs-sites.com/contact) - [Base Camp Login](https://basecamp.eosworldwide.com) - [Blog](http://blog.eosworldwide.com) - [Request a Speaker](https://www.eosworldwide.com/book-a-speaker) - [2020EOS Conference](https://eosconference.com/) Close ![Header-Placeholder.jpg](https://info.eosworldwide.com/hs-fs/hubfs/eos-blog2.jpg?width=1678&name=eos-blog2.jpg "Header-Placeholder.jpg") ## EOS Worldwide Blog Advice and Insight for Entrepreneurs and Leadership Teams ##### Search the Blog : # [Hitting the Ceiling - Reaching Your Limits as a Business Owner](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog/5539/eos/reaching-limits-business-owner/) Written by[Ed Callahan](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog/author/ed-callahan) on November 10, 2011 - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) [Implementers](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog/topic/implementers) [EOS](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog/topic/eos) [Leadership](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog/topic/leadership) [Business](https://info.eosworldwide.com/blog/topic/business) Barbara Taylor runs a retail coffee and espresso business in Arkansas. She wrote a post in the small business section of the New York Times in June 2011, entitled [Reaching Your Limits As A Business Owner](http://boss.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/06/03/reaching-your-limit-as-a-business-owner/). What she has to say about hitting a wall will resonate with owners of companies implementing EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System. ## Hitting the Ceiling ![Hitting the Ceiling](https://info.eosworldwide.com/hs-fs/file-3117539555-jpg/blog-files/istock_000006484081xsmall-300x199.jpg?width=216&height=143&name=istock_000006484081xsmall-300x199.jpg "iStock_000006484081XSmall") When a company begins its journey implementing EOS, we talk about the challenges of **hitting the ceiling**. *Hitting the ceiling* can happen as a company, a division, a department or an individual. We teach EOS leadership teams the five leadership abilities (of the many, many you can choose from) that we have found help companies break through that ceiling, at whatever level it is found. The leadership abilities you must master are: • Simplifying – if its complex for your team, how complex must it be for your prospects/customers? • Delegating – delegate and elevate to your unique ability, get everybody doing what they do best. • Predicting – both short and long term, so that you can correct errors when the consequences are small enough that they can’t crush your business. • Systemize – build your franchise way of scaling your business, so you can focus on the inevitable surprises which are in store for you. • Structuring – get all the right people in all the right seats. If you’ll focus on these leadership skills, you will find more time to work on your business, instead of being buried in your business. You can read all about them in Gino Wickman’s book, [Traction: Get A Grip On Your Business](http://eosworldwide.com/traction/eos-traction-book/) or you can [talk with me](http://eosworldwide.com/implementers/find-an-implementer/callahan/) to learn more. ### By mastering these abilities you will learn to break through when you are hitting the ceiling. --- More Blog Posts: ← [EOS Worldwide Announces 3-Day Business Accelerator Training Event November 15-17](http://blog.eosworldwide.com/blog/5515/in-the-news/eos-worldwide-announces-day-business-accelerator-training-event-november/) | [Issues Are Opportunities](http://blog.eosworldwide.com/blog/5637/eos/issues-opportunities/) → ![eos-tools-dark.jpg](http://www.eosworldwide.com/hubfs/eos-tools-dark.jpg "eos-tools-dark.jpg") ## Unlock The Toolbox. Simple tools that empower entrepreneurs to get what they want from their businesses. 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