Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

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Year Target – “a long-range, energizing goal for the organization, ranging from five years to twenty years out;” helps help frame the shorter time-based goals for three years, one year, and quarterly Systemize – “documenting and getting everyone to follow the essential procedural steps in your company’s core processes”

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The author writes a dictatorship or “true leadership team” approach can work depending on what you want. Aside from saying your leaders must be better than you at what they do, and accountable, not much else is said about leadership in the book. The book presents what I think is an elementary level approach to systematizing a business. If a business is a start-up with a small team, or is a few years old, then this system is a great starting point.

Now, for a given seat or position in your organization, use the GWC tool to evaluate an individual. If you arrive at an answer of “No” to any of the three parts, then you probably do not have the right person for the right seat.

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But that could be because I already think,and work with my clients in a way that is well beyond the scope of the book, to improve human and business performance. All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations—personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or, once made, fail to be properly implemented. But there is a solution. It's not complicated or theoretical.The Entrepreneurial Operating System® is a practical method for achieving the business success you have always envisioned. More than 80,000 companies have discovered what EOS can do. The road to Hana analogy. The town of Hannah is Tiny and leaves much to be desired but the road to get there is worth the trip. You deserve to live your ideal life. Create the entrepreneurial life you always hoped and dreamed it could be. Why does your organization exist? This is the purpose, cause, or passion of your organization captured in a three to seven word phrase that is simple, bold, and heartfelt.When your core values are part of the common language in your organization, they’ll become a way of life. 2) Your Company’s Main Focus This book is very popular in business circles. I can see why. If you have ever tried to get a group of leaders organized but stumbled on the definitions of "goals," and "objectives" etc., you know that the vocabulary of planning and strategy are not universal. This book provides its own vocabulary (some of it trademarked) so everyone is clear on what each part is, how it is defined, why it is needed, etc. It also provides a tried and proven system of getting a entrepreneurial enterprise on the path to achievement / success by acting the "vision" and the "goals" and the rest.

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Unique Ability – an employee’s characteristics, values, and strongest skills that maximize their effectiveness and worth to the company

PDF Summary Chapter 8: Getting Traction

This step may take longer than the other steps. You may spend most of your time identifying the problem, and need only a few minutes to discuss and solve it.