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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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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
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Over the course of the past 13 years, I’ve interacted with nearly 200 business owners who had questions about optimizing employee engagement within their organizations. It’s not that the organizations were in desperate need of help. On the contrary, some of these businesses were performing very well, and
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There is a scene from the film "We Are Marshall" that perfectly conveys the importance of verbal communication if you truly wish to be heard and understood and to have the full significance of your statements appreciated. On November 14, 1970, the plane carrying the Marshall University football
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Dear Clients and Friends, I wish I were not writing this, I am cognizant of the situations and extremes I may be writing to and I pray for the best as soon as possible. We are in this together, and I want to take some time to share some guidance
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In the pages of Attract or Repel, I laid out the BITE7 Framework, which allows everyone within your company to align themselves with your mission by deciding if they can answer “yes” to questions of belonging, belief, accountability, measurement, communication, development and balance. The ultimate benefit of this process is
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The idea of developing your employees can lead you into tricky territory if you’re a business owner. On the one hand, there are reasons to not take formal steps to develop your employees that might make logical sense on a very superficial level. After all, you probably have employees
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Measuring your employees is a simple necessity that is made unnecessarily complicated by the misguided assumption that employees don’t want to be measured. In light of this erroneous supposition, many business owners - often under additional coercion supplied by their HR departments - opt to measure their employees by
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In most hiring situations, the first time a candidate comes across the radar of a business is when the job seeker submits a resume to the HR department or HR representative. If the applicant appears to check all of the necessary boxes - an impressive education, and years of employment
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When it comes to balance in the workplace, several different explanations are employed to describe what it means, and many of these definitions are correct in one respect or another. In fact, the most complete description of workplace balance incorporates multiple elements from the popular definitions of balance. This ultimately
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Quite often, one of the first obstacles to reconfiguring a business into a Patient Organization through the BITE7 methodology is revealing to the owner of the company that he is not already at the helm of a patient organization. This is an understandable, yet nonetheless harmful misinterpretation of one or
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“They have to learn how to win.” This quote came from Packers’ QB Aaron Rodgers. He was talking about his young team, and it made me think. “They have to learn how to win as a team.” Per usual, my mind started chewing on this thought, looking at it from