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  Business Tips : TRACTION (EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System) Our management is implementing a new system called “Traction”. It will provide direction over the next year through a wonderful system. We look forward to sharing it with you here. We hope you will take the journey with us. ~Get it, want it, capacity to do it (GWC) and People Analyzer~ GWC stands for get it, want it, and capacity to do it. “Get it” simply means that they truly understand their role, the culture, the systems, the pace, and how the job comes together. This means they genuinely like the job. They understand the role, and they want to do it based on fair compensation and the responsibility. Capacity means having the time as well as the mental, physical, and emotional capacity to do a job well. We can determine if someone is a Right Person for our organization by using a simple tool called The People Analyzer. In the following example, we’ll use the preceding list of Core Values to show you ho...

  Business Tips : TRACTION (EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System) Our management is implementing a new system called “Traction”. It will provide direction over the next year through a wonderful system. We look forward to sharing it with you here. We hope you will take the journey with us. ~Core Values and Core Focus~ Excellence - On the cutting edge, best quality product, and service, professional, consistent Do the right thing - Respect yourself and others, be accountable, have character, honesty, integrity, compassion, loyalty, and do what you say you are going to do. Help first / serve – Be flexible, be the first to volunteer to help, consider others before yourself. Competitive –Whatever it takes, achieve, hit goals, work hard, self-improvement, growth oriented, relaxed - but better each time, initiative, self-motivated. Our core values in our business teach us a way to hold all of us accountable. When we make decisions in our business, we d...

  Business Tips : TRACTION (EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System) Our management is implementing a new system called “Traction”. It will provide direction over the next year through a wonderful system. We look forward to sharing it with you here. We hope you will take the journey with us. ~EOS, Level 10, and scorecard~ Get to know the Entrepreneurial Operating System through the books available to you. Some great ones are: What the heck is EOS?: A Complete Guide for Employees in Companies Running on EOS Traction: Get A Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman Get a Grip: How to Get Everything You Want from Your Entrepreneurial Business And if you are leading anyone – How to be a great boss   Know what goes on in our weekly Level 10 meetings and know that you can always catch one of us to bring things up at the meeting.   If you didn’t know, we keep a scorecard in all of our business. YES, we keep score. If we are going to play, we play to win. We ...

  Business Tips : TRACTION (EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System) Our management is implementing a new system called “Traction”. It will provide direction over the next year through a wonderful system. We look forward to sharing it with you here. We hope you will take the journey with us. ~10 year target~ It is found that organizations that have endured for decades share another common practice: They all set massive 10- to 25-year goals. Collins and Porras refer to these as BHAGs—Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals—and define them as having “a long-term vision so daring in its scope as to seem impossible.” That’s one of the main differences between a 10-year target and any shorter ones you might set. This is the one larger-than-life goal that everyone is working toward, the thing that gives everyone in the organization a long-range direction. Once your 10-year target is clear, you and your leadership team will start doing things differently in the here and now so as to get you ...

  Business Tips : TRACTION (EOS – Entrepreneurial Operating System) Our management is implementing a new system called “Traction”. It will provide direction over the next year through a wonderful system. We look forward to sharing it with you here. We hope you will take the journey with us. ~3 year picture~ The three-year picture is composed of measurables at the top and bullet points to create the picture. It’s simple but powerful. PAINT THE THREE-YEAR PICTURE Schedule an hour with your leadership team. Once you’re assembled, have a copy of the V/TO placed in front of each member. Begin by selecting a future date. I recommend keeping it within the end of the calendar year, thus making it easier for people to envision. Next, determine the revenue picture. Start by asking your team this question: What is the annual revenue going to be three years from now? This is always fun, because you find out if your leadership is in sync with how fast you want to grow. The next step is...