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What will AI leave us with?
My son is at Penn State, and a few weeks ago, we were planning to visit him for parents’ weekend. If you’ve ever tried booking a hotel near Penn State during a football weekend, you know it’s not cheap. We had a room reserved for a couple thousand dollars. Then, just before we…
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Do It Scared: Clay Harris Learns to Let the Team Cook
Clay Harris spent years building an IT services company by following his instincts. But after the $5 million mark, he had to learn how to trust the judgment of team members who knew more about the day-to-day work than he did. Today, Clay Harris is an EOS Implementer, but he…
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Why We Set Rocks Before We IDS
Setting Rocks before IDS (Identify, Discuss, Solve) helps your Leadership Team identify its biggest priorities, focus its time, and solve the right Issues in the right way. One of the questions I often get asked during a Quarterly Session is, “Why do we set Rocks before we IDS?”…
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How to Run IDS in Your First Level 10 Meeting
To run IDS (Identify, Discuss, Solve) in your first Level 10 Meeting, prepare your team to solve problems differently. In the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), IDS is at the heart of the Level 10 Meeting. Short for Identify, Discuss, Solve, it gives your team a way to…
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When should you change the soul of your business?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about something Jim Collins said: Preserve the core and stimulate progress. It sounds simple enough. But I’ve seen how easy it is to get those two things mixed up, even when you’re trying to do what’s best for the business. It reminds me of…
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Comfortable with Boring: How Shannon Badger Built a More Predictable Business
Badger CPA finally reached a place Shannon Badger once would have begged for: steadier forecasts, stronger managers, and fewer surprises. But with the company running so smoothly, did “boring” mean they had stopped trying? Today, Shannon Badger is co-founder and managing partner…
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Grow or Die: Why the Best Leaders Never Stop Learning
EOS Implementer Ken DeWitt reflects on 40 years in business and why he keeps learning as a leader. After 40 years in business, I’m still finding things I need to learn about leading people. I spent 25 years building and leading a CPA firm. That work meant casting a vision,…
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Loving the Work You Keep: How Ryan Hawk Decides What Still Belongs to Him
Ryan Hawk built a business around his own name, voice, and ideas. Now he’s deciding how much of the business can grow beyond him, and how much he wants to keep at the center. Ryan is the founder and host of The Learning Leader Show, where he has spent more than a decade…
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The decisions I make fast (and the ones I don’t)
When I started my first company back in 2007, I used to joke that my brother made me do it. I had a young family and a new baby, and I wasn’t sure I was ready to take the entrepreneurial leap. So my brother and I made a bet. I’d put my resume on a ... Read more
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The Most Dangerous Person in Your Organization (It’s Not Your Visionary)
The most dangerous person in your organization might be your highest-performing employee. Here’s why yesterday’s rock star sometimes becomes today’s cynic, and what leaders can do about it. I’ve seen a difficult pattern in organizations: employees who’ve contributed the most can…
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Why a Reactive Business Runs You Instead of the Other Way Around
A reactive business runs you when most of your time goes toward handling whatever needs attention right now instead of making progress on the work that would make the business easier to run. You may start the week knowing exactly what matters most, only to reach Friday with…
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When Hard Work Stops Working: Brock Beiersdoerfer’s Wake-Up Call
Brock Beiersdoerfer opened a donut shop, hoping to create something good for his community. A few years later, he was working 80-hour weeks, losing sleep over payroll, and wondering how long he could keep going. Brock and his wife, Kimberly, opened The Heavenly Donut Company in…
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Growing Up Careful: How Childhood Scarcity Followed Kieran James into Business
Kieran James grew up in a family where money had to stretch. Years later, those early lessons about scarcity were still influencing how he led his company: what he charged, what he spent, and which risks felt safe enough to take. Today, Kieran is the founder of Stryde, an…
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Can AI Replace This?
I used to own a house that began construction in 1896 and wasn’t finished until 1902. From what I understand, around 50 men worked on it five, six, and sometimes seven days a week. My current house is bigger. It took about four months to build with a team of around eight people.…
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Why Recurring Business Problems Keep Coming Up in Your Meetings
Recurring business problems usually come back for one of three reasons: your team solved the symptom instead of the real Issue, stopped the conversation too soon, or never made a clear decision about what needed to change. Every leadership team has Issues to solve. That’s part…
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How Team Health Holds the Six Key Components Together
Team health holds the Six Key Components of EOS together by helping your leadership team trust each other, disagree openly, and hold each other accountable. I was running through the Six Key Components as a refresher with a client one day, drawing them out on the whiteboard:…
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Why You Need a Consistent Business Meeting Rhythm as You Grow
A growing business needs a consistent business meeting rhythm to keep its leadership team connected, focused, and moving forward. As your business grows, the quick conversations that once kept everyone connected become less reliable, especially as leaders take ownership of…
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When the V/TO isn’t landing
What if your team isn’t confused about the direction? What if they just don’t believe in it? I’ve been thinking about that lately when it comes to the Vision/Traction Organizer. When the V/TO isn’t landing with the team, I think our instinct is often to assume we have a…
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When Effort Stops Being Enough: Glen Smith’s Next Leadership Challenge
Glen Smith built GDS Wealth Management into a much larger wealth management firm by relying on the advantage he knew he could control: how hard he worked. But leading the company’s next chapter asks something different of him. Early in Glen Smith’s career as a financial advisor,…
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The Cost of Business Inefficiency: Where It Shows Up and How to Fix It
The cost of business inefficiency is the time and money lost to recurring problems that should be solved at the source rather than repeatedly worked around. Business inefficiency can be easy to overlook because it often hides inside the way work gets done. Your team handles…