Why You Should Care About Caring
A blinding flash of the obvious: When people truly care about their company and their work, they do more and do it better than when they don’t.
Telling the Truth
There’s an old saying that one of the benefits of telling the truth is that it makes it a lot easier to remember what you said.
How Many Matts?
Early in the last quarter, the company’s Head of Engineering left unexpectedly. He was exceptionally talented, so his departure left a hole. Needing to move fast, the company moved Engineering under Operations and promoted one of the engineers, Matt, to run it. It was a battlefield promotion, and no one sure it how it would go. As it turned out. . .
Building Tomorrow’s Business
In our last post, we described how great companies simultaneously run two lanes. One is executing their existing business as they know it.
Executing Today’s Business
When you and your team walk into your business in the morning and start doing things, every action you take falls into one of two buckets.
The Foundation of Great Execution
In this post, we’re going to describe the third foundation—clear, singular accountability.
Vision and Speed
Imagine that it’s 1980, and that you and your team are the Leadership Team of Southwest Airlines. The company is in its upstart days.
The Foundation of Profitable Growth
If there is an overused, misunderstood, eyeroll-causing word in the business dictionary, it has to be “strategy.” Bear with us.
Growth, Profit and Fun—Are You Getting What You Want?
We’ve been fortunate to give dozens of talks to business-owner groups on EOS® and the idea of a “Business Operating System.”
Are You Playing to Win or Not to Lose?
What we’re living through right now is unprecedented. There’s no playbook for it and no roadmap. But there is something you can do.