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Category: EOS

People Component™
June 26, 2024
William Stratton

How to Get the People Component™ Right In Your Organization: Part 2

Tips for Using the Accountability Chart™ to Assess If Your Right People Are in the Right Seats My previous blog post kicked off our discussion about the People Component of the EOS model®, focusing on my tips for using the EOS People Analyzer™ tool to assess if your organization has the right people, specifically those […]
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people analyzer
June 12, 2024
William Stratton

How to Get the People Component™ Right In Your Organization: Part 1

Using the People Analyzer™ Tool to Assess If You Have the Right People For most organizations, 82% of their issues originate in the People Component of the EOS model®—not having the right people in the right seats. Whenever a leader is dealing with an employee issue, I ask: “Is this a right person or right […]
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Great Boss
May 22, 2024
William Stratton

Best Practices for Being a Great Boss

There’s No “Right” Way to Be a Leader, But You Need Two Essential Qualities to Do It Well In their book, “What It Takes to Be a Great Boss,” Gino Wickman and René Boor help leaders, managers, and supervisors leverage the People component of the EOS® Model to create a productive and motivated workforce. Often, […]
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Core Processes
May 8, 2024
William Stratton

How to Leverage Your Business’s Secret Sauce — Your Core Processes

As a business owner, you probably understand the importance of consistency and scalability, but how to achieve them may be less evident. Establishing and implementing clearly defined core processes unique to your business model is an essential part of getting everyone on the same page and positioning your organization for growth. But what are your […]
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Cash Flow
April 30, 2024
William Stratton

Stagnant Cash Flow? How to Turn the Tide

Cash flow is the lifeblood of every business. However, I’ve found many leaders do not consider how their decisions and actions affect their organization’s profitability and cash flow. Several mistakes that negatively impact cash flow include: Not raising prices often enough Discounting rates too often Inefficient processes that thwart productivity Lack of quality control, resulting […]
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December 1, 2020
William Stratton

Right People + Right Seats = Success

A Common Denominator When it comes to great businesses, they all have one thing in common: the right people who fit the organization’s culture, values, and behaviors are in the right seats. Jim Collins’ book, Good to Great, speaks to the idea of getting the right people into the organization and then placed in the […]
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July 3, 2020
William Stratton

Clarify Your Vision: Tools to keep your business focused and on track

“More businesses die from indigestion than starvation.”  - Dave Packard, Co-founder of Hewlett-Packard As business leaders, we can easily get caught up in many projects and operations. Often, the real roadblock for business success isn’t a lack of motivation but an approach without focus, taking on too many things at once. Can you relate? If […]
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