From processes to personnel, there are a number of places where entrepreneurs and business owners can effect immediate and meaningful change in business performance. My experience in nearly two decades of working with hundreds of business owners and leadership teams from a broad variety of industries is that most are frustrated by one or more of the following issues: lack of control, personnel concerns, profit worries, lack of growth, and strategic burn-out from previous strategies and unsuccessful quick-fix remedies.
3 Areas of Your Business to Evaluate for Performance Improvement
Written by Christina Mack on May 24, 2010
Topics: Implementers, EOS, Issues List, Vision, Business
Nugget #1 - The Sales Department Checkup
Topics: Implementers, EOS, Organization, People, Business, Clarity
As many entrepreneurs now know, Certified EOS Implementers begin every session by restating our expectations for the day. Every single time we do that - to date nearly 1,500 times with the leadership teams of more than 200 entrepreneurial companies - we've asked each member of the team to be "Open and Honest" with us, and with one another. As simple and reasonable as that request might sound, complying with it is difficult, even for the best leaders in the most successful businesses.
Topics: Implementers, EOS, Leadership, Organization, Team, Business
DELEGATING: Getting Right People in the Right Seats in Your Business
Written by Ed Callahan on May 10, 2010
The inspiration for this post came from Seth Godin in one of his recent posts, entitled "Losing Andrew Carnegie". Read the whole post here. Seth is reinforcing a principle that he, Andrew Carnegie, Jim Collins, and Gino Wickman believe in - your people are your business.
Topics: Implementers, EOS, People, Business
For some, simple business might appear to be an oxymoron. Almost all of the businesses I have worked with in the past 30 years have been anything but simple. Is it possible to keep business simple, with a simple business structure, a simple business plan, simple business processes and simple management - is it really possible to simplify business?
Topics: Implementers, EOS, Results, People, Vision, Business, Planning