After capturing all your issues on your team’s Issues List – the first discipline – we now need to review the second discipline – how to solve business problems.
How to Solve Business Problems – The Second Discipline
Written by Rene Boer on January 20, 2011
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Topics: Implementers, EOS, Issues List, Team, People, Business
Solving Business Problems – Start With This Discipline
Written by Rene Boer on January 17, 2011
How often have you sent emails or left voice messages for team members, asking them to solve business problems without considering what else they are working on? In the rush to solve business problems, well-intentioned leaders and managers sometimes create unnecessary chaos and work for themselves and their direct reports. Have you ever solved what you thought was an important business problem only to realize you had created an even larger one by over-reacting or reacting too quickly? Or have you ever diverted key resources away from higher priorities to solve things that weren’t as important?
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Topics: Implementers, EOS, Issues List, Team, Business
Save 100 Hours in Confusion, Missteps, Miscommunications, and Train Wrecks This Year
Written by Gino Wickman on January 13, 2011
I trust you’re aware of the Issue Solving Track (IDS) that we teach in the EOS Process. It’s a simple and effective approach to issues resolution. If not, please download it here.
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Topics: Implementers, EOS, Leadership, Issues List
An Inspiring Success Story from a Determined Survivor
Written by Mike Paton on January 10, 2011
Click Here for an inspiring start to 2011. It’s a great profile from Twin Cities Business about my friend Stephanie Laitala and her company, OWL Bookkeeping and CFO Services.
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Topics: Implementers, EOS
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.
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Topics: Implementers, EOS, Leadership, Accountability, Traction, Team, People, Business
