Scaling a business rapidly presents numerous challenges, but implementing a business operating system (BOS) transforms these obstacles into manageable components. The balance between a system’s strengths and the obstacles presented by rapid growth highlights why these systems provide a strong...
You already know how valuable running an effective meeting is for developing your team and ensuring you’ve got the right people in the right seats. In our experience, quarterly meetings require some prep work, since most supervisors prepare written notes to guide...
“It’s not personal, it’s strictly business.” That might be true if you’re in business with Michael Corleone, but for everyone else, business is personal. Humans are social animals, after all; We need personal relationships in order to thrive. And since we spend...
Sue Hawkes is a best-selling author, Certified EOS Implementer, and award-winning seminar leader. She is also the CEO of YESS! — her company that helps CEOs and their leadership teams succeed. Her most recent book, Chasing Perfection—Shatter the Illusion; Minimize...
With remote work on the rise, businesses and employees alike are discovering the awesome, unexpected benefits of telecommuting: It's cheaper for employees and employers, absenteeism drops and there's less turnover overall. Productivity often increases, too — but...
Recently, I realized that I’ve been seeing my role of Integrator™ all wrong—and it changed everything about my work. In the fall I attended the Integrator Mastery Forum (IMF), led by Mark Winters, coauthor of Rocket Fuel. I arrived at the full-day workshop thinking...
Some ideas need a second consideration. Jon Gertner’s book, The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, is one of those reads that takes a culturally-presumed evil and flips our assumptions on their head: maybe a monopoly can be a good...