How to time the Scorecard on Focus Day
By the time a team reaches the Scorecard on Focus Day, they're running on empty. Here's how Adam handles it now, and why it protects their first Level 10 Meeting.
Certified EOS Implementer®
The Practice Builder
I came off that annual flying, and then it all just stopped
Around session 100, Adam's practice looked like the view from the top. Then his favorite client went quiet and the practice slid. Here's what rebuilding taught him.
Certified EOS Implementer®
How to set the conditions for an honest EOS® session
Most of the value in a session dies quietly, in the things people decide not to say. Here's how to fix that.
Expert EOS Implementer
I taught purpose for a year before I found my own
For a year, Kurt taught clients to name their purpose while I'd never named my own. Here's the day mine finally came clear, and why it points outward.
Expert EOS Implementer
Leaders creating leaders: how one company sent nine of us into EOS®
learned EOS® at a company that got acquired out from under me, and nine years later nine of my own clients had become Implementers.
Expert EOS Implementer
How to run a great State of the Company Meeting
Most teams nail the rollout meeting, then never gather the company again, and here's how to fix that.
Expert EOS Implementer
How to Build a Practice on Human Connection: What 12 Years and 1,000 Sessions Taught Me About Trust
The tools are fifteen percent of the work. Here is what the other eighty-five percent looks like.
Expert EOS® Implementer
The day I watched strangers put down their forks
Twelve years in, over a thousand sessions, and a charity golf outing still managed to teach John McMahon something new about human connection.
Expert EOS® Implementer
How to grow an EOS® Implementer practice by helping, not selling
Paul Detlefs fills a full EOS® practice without a single sales pitch, and here is the simple system that lets him do it.
Expert EOSⓇ Implementer
They kicked me off the island, and they were right to
Paul Detlefs got kicked out of the EOS® community for six months, and it forced him to fix the one thing quietly holding his practice back.
Expert EOSⓇ Implementer
How to Build an EOS® Implementer Practice From Day One
Mark shares why building a practice is a discipline problem, not a knowledge problem, and the handful of things the Implementers who take off do relentlessly.
Visionary and CEO at EOS Worldwide
Gino told me it would never work
In this blog post, Mark tells how he and his brother built 23 companies from chaos, why Scaling Up never stuck, and how an Amazon recommendation led him to Traction and, eventually, to becoming a full-time EOS Implementer, despite Gino Wickman telling him it would never work.
Visionary and CEO at EOS Worldwide
Why marketing didn't build my EOS® practice
I spent seven grand this year on a CRM that did nothing, and it was one of the cheaper lessons I have paid for in this practice.
Expert EOS Implementer
How to take on a team that's been self-implementing EOS®
Teams that self-implement arrive in three very different states. Here is how to tell which one you have before you touch a thing.
Expert EOS Implementer
I'm sixty, and I'm cutting my practice in half
At sixty, Scott decided to cut his practice in half. Here's why that felt like the fog lifting, not slowing down.
Expert EOS Implementer
How to Build Business Development Around Dunbar's Number
Business development stops being a grind when the people in your calendar and the people who could hire you are the same people.
Expert EOS Implementer
How to build an EOS® life that actually lasts
Most Implementers walk away from a great career, build a practice, and quietly rebuild the exact treadmill they escaped. After fifteen years, here's the EOS® life Jim Coyle actually runs to stay effective and human, not the one on a slide.
Expert EOS Implementer
Why some ceilings are boundaries, not targets
What if the ceiling every Implementer is trying to break through is actually the one you're supposed to stop at? Jim Coyle hit his around 300 sessions in, and what he did next was the opposite of what a striver ever wants to hear.
Expert EOS Implementer
How to protect your annual season as an EOS® Implementer
By the third client of the week I was lecturing instead of listening. Here is how to reshape an annual season, and what to say when you ask.
Expert EOS Implementer
Seventeen years in, every hard call I have made was about a person
Seventeen years in, Rip Tilden has found that every hard decision is a people decision, including the ones about himself.
Expert EOS Implementer
How to build an EOS® Implementer practice from boot camp to your 300th session
Ten years and thirteen hundred sessions in, Ted Bradshaw breaks down the framework that gets an EOS® Implementer practice off the ground, and what actually keeps it standing past session three hundred.
Expert EOS Implementer
Thirteen clients couldn't teach me how to run the room
Ted Bradshaw walked into his own EOS® boot camp with thirteen clients already signed, in a market that had never heard of EOS®, and still got the tag-team L10™ practice wrong, but the correction that followed taught him more than the pipeline ever did.
Expert EOS Implementer
Grit gets you started, but systems are what keep you going.
CJ's honest answer to running a practice this size: grit gets you started, but systems are what keep you going.
Expert EOS Implementer®
People has always been my thing, building a practice taught me the rest.
People was always CJ Dube's thing, but building the practice taught her the discipline to manage herself.
Expert EOS Implementer®
The five things that made my practice predictable
After thirteen years and nearly twelve hundred sessions, Jeanet Wade shares the five habits that keep her practice predictable, her clients getting results, and herself from burning out.
Expert EOS Implementer
What 1,200 sessions taught me about giving clients what they need
In this post, Jeanet Wade shares how customizing EOS to keep clients happy cost her their trust, and what changed when she finally stopped.
Expert EOS Implementer
How I stopped working six jobs in my own practice
Tzvi Schwartz thought his exhaustion came from being too busy. But when he drew his Accountability Chart for his own practice, he realized he was sitting in five or six seats at once, working six different jobs. Here's how he fixed it.
Certified EOS Implementer
What I learned about the EOS life I wasn't living
"Nobody gets burnt out from always loving what they do," Tzvi Schwartz realized. His burnout came from working with clients he didn't align with. Once he stopped people-pleasing and started screening for real fit, his energy transformed, and so did everything else.
Certified EOS Implementer
The biz dev system that works even if you're low follow-through
Business development isn't about having a hunter mentality or military discipline. Dan Wallace built a system around his actual weaknesses, and it works.
Expert EOS® Implementer
Why hitting "escape velocity" might be the most dangerous moment in your practice
"The most dangerous moment for a practice isn't when you're starving for business. It's the exact moment you think you've finally made it."
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