Even the best superheroes have partners. Wearing a cape means that it takes someone particularly understanding to enter into a relationship that is likely to be fraught with peril.
Topics: EOS, Integrator, Rocket Fuel, Visionary
When to Fire Your Company’s Founder and Hire a Visionary
Written by Mike Kotsis on July 11, 2016
Imagine you’ve founded a service business with about 100 employees. When asked, you explain your role as being involved with everything, especially Sales and Marketing, and Operations. One day, as you arrive at your weekly meeting, your right-hand man tells you, “You’re fired.”
Topics: Rocket Fuel, Visionary
In almost all small businesses, owners have dual roles in their companies. Sometimes many more. This can be problematic. It’s like the kid who owned the basketball in a pickup game who, if they didn’t get their way, could always resort to “it’s my ball and if we don’t do it my way I am going home.”
Topics: Leadership, Integrator, Rocket Fuel, Visionary
As a Visionary, what's on your "wish list" of things you'd love for an Integrator to handle for you?
Whether you're looking for your perfect Integrator, or you've just gotten them on board, the Wish List™ is an amazing tool to help you make this combination work – to make it really powerful. It can even be an extra boost for a Visionary/Integrator combination that is already well established.
Topics: Integrator, Rocket Fuel, Visionary
Why Entrepreneurial Companies Need a Visionary and an Integrator
Written by Don Tinney on December 14, 2015
It takes two types of leaders at the helm of a 10-250 person entrepreneurial organization to have the "Rocket Fuel" it needs to hit the next level: the Visionary and the Integrator.
The Visionary entrepreneur’s passion, drive and creativity are the key elements that help launch a business and fuel a company’s growth. But when a company is growing, the Visionary entrepreneur starts to feel swamped with the overwhelming workload, and their momentum begins to stall and sputter. Every great Visionary hits this threshold.
Topics: EOS Leadership Team, Leadership, Accountability, Team, Integrator, Rocket Fuel, Visionary