As we near the end of the 3rd quarter and make the turn into the home stretch, most of us are charging towards achieving all our goals for 2011 - right? If that's not what it looks like for you and your team, here's a tip.
Topics: Implementers, Accountability, Clarity, Tools
If you’re like most small to medium size entrepreneurial companies, you’ve probably tried to visually display how your company is structured or organized. So what’s the best way to do that – with an accountability chart or an organizational chart? What’s the difference?
Topics: Implementers, EOS, Business Owner, Accountability, Organization, Business
The acronym “S.M.A.R.T.” is a filter to create goals that are specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and timely. Each is important to setting goals but it’s the last one, “timely” that creates the urgency necessary to achieve a goal. And, nothing ensures timeliness like a deadline. Setting and then meeting business deadlines creates traction, and traction is the real test of an effective, cohesive leadership team. Without traction people are just spinning their wheels.
Topics: Implementers, EOS, Leadership, Accountability, Traction, Team, People, Business
Business accountability in simplest terms means you do what you say you are going to do as a business. In contrast, the norm today is to over-promise and under-deliver. Dates and times mean almost nothing. Many companies can’t even hit within the time range they communicate. Charging above the quoted price has become so common, many of us have just come to expect it.
Topics: Implementers, EOS, Leadership, Accountability, Business
Business Vision - Be clear, and you’re Guaranteed to Benefit
Written by Mike Paton on December 16, 2010
If you’ve been to either of EOS Midwest or EOS Worldwide’s home pages or seen any EOS materials, then you’ve read the phrase, “Clarify, Simplify and Achieve Your Vision.” There’s no way to miss it. We make an effort to emphasize it.
Topics: Implementers, EOS, Business Owner, Accountability, Vision, Business, Clarity, Planning