Walt Brown, also known as "Uncle Walt," is a Master Business Operating System Mechanic and Head Coach who focuses on the 7 Critical Needs, organizational health, cash flow and risk mitigation. Walt is also BITE7's Founder.
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Here's the uncomfortable truth: Your team's effectiveness starts to crumble once you hit 7 people. And not just a little crumble—we're talking full-on organizational Jenga. Growing a business isn't about hitting numbers—it's about maintaining your core essence while evolving.
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Above is a model I share with my clients to show them that what they are doing in the room with me, defining and operationalizing Organizational Cognizance®, is preparing them to catch the waves of AI, both traditional automation AI and generative AI. [Note: Generative AI was not used in
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“Companies Roll on Roles, The Accountability Chart Rolls on Roles.” First posted on EOS Implementer on June 7, 2024 I shared this thought with the EOS Implementer™ community during our quarterly gathering in Denver. Five folks reached out to learn more, so I figured I would share what Uncle Walt
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A full inventory of roles is how you tear down the silos and create a level of transparency that is uncommon in corporate settings.
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Originally posted on EOS Implementer on May 12, 2023 Chat GPT weighs in on the meaning of Entrepreneurialism and describes what Running On EOS feels like in the process. What Chat GPT says about Entrepreneurism.– Oddly, really summarizes what it feels like to be part of a company running on
Originally published on EOS Implementer, February 21, 2022 Over the past 14 years, I have played 1,103 full rounds. Yes, I am obsessed, and people tell me I’m pretty good, I work at it. I practice daily, take lessons, read, work out. I do this to make each
Cultural Clarity and Consistency
No matter what you call it, it is not just coming, it is here now. Ask any young professional, engineer, attorney, CPA, great worker, and they will tell you they are getting letters and inquiries that sound like this: “Dear Julie, Hope you are doing well. We have been receiving
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Employees can be like Data: Junk In = Junk Out. Fix this with the Recruiting Marketing Strategy checklist below. At a minimum, every business has two Marketing Strategies. 1. We have the obvious one, how do we market for new sweet spot customers or clients? and 2. How do we market
The Word “Pivot” - yuck! Pivot is one word in business that drives me crazy. Especially when used like this: “We are pivoting.” Or “We pivoted.” What I hear is this: “We were going the wrong way, we stopped and now we are facing another direction while still stopped with
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An organization is essentially a fiction, only given meaning and power by those who believe in it, who buy in. Why do folks always hear me use the term organization and not companies or businesses? For starters, that would be too narrow. What we focus on transforms any entity that
Believe
As a business owner, you undoubtedly hope for the best when it comes to the future. Whether you are ultimately hoping to become wealthy, or you are simply building a small, humble organization because it is your chance to construct a workplace culture that you would be thrilled to work
Balanced
As owners and founders, If we could have things our way, our employees would gladly give at least 70 hours per week to the business, just like us, and they would do it with perpetual smiles on their faces. Obviously, this isn’t a realistic expectation, but there is a