Assuming you’re having regular meetings with your leadership team—we recommend 90 minutes per week with the following Level 10 meeting agenda (download here)—there’s a way to improve, evolve, and perfect your meetings with a very simple discipline.
Topics: Implementers, EOS, Leadership, Team, Meetings
Harry Beckwith says, “people don’t lead, purposes do.” I once worked with a client who became a firm believer in this statement recently. He is the son who inherited a successful 20-year-old family business about two years ago and is now struggling to pay the bills. He has been drifting away from the company’s core business and has become distracted.
Topics: Implementers, EOS, People, Core Focus, Business, Clarity
I find it very interesting that Gino and I both felt compelled by our recent experiences working with leadership teams, to write about clarity. If you missed it, see Gino’s recent post. We’re both recommending the same solution, coming at it from a little bit different angles.
Topics: Clarity Break Thought, Implementers, EOS, Clarity
Answer “Yes” or answer “no”. But, don’t say “maybe”. “Maybe” is noncommittal and it rarely buys you time.
Topics: Implementers, EOS, Clarity
It’s a really strange time right now—kind of like a whipsaw—due to the chaos and massive cuts companies endured to survive in 2008 and ‘09 and then some relatively good growth in 2010 and ‘11 on the same amount of reduced resources. Leaders are in a frenzy right now due to the lack of capacity and certainty.
Topics: Implementers, EOS, Growth, Clarity