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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Eileen was furious with her business partner, Vic, for the way he had treated the other leaders in the meeting. She thought about quitting the partnership with him. However, she wasn’t going to walk away from what they had built over the last ten years. #2 The company had begun to experience problems, and Eileen had found them all to be caused by the sales team’s inability to meet their new revenue goal. The team had added people and upgraded talent last year in an attempt to meet their five-year goal of $20 million in revenue, but so far they hadn’t reached it. #3 The Eileen method was effective at solving the problems at Swan, but it came at a cost. It cost Eileen her most promising ally in the company, who was eventually fired because of her inability to hit sales goals. #4 The executive committee met to discuss client retention, and Evan stammered that he wasn’t sure the numbers were accurate. Eileen suggested they brainstorm ways to improve the team’s performance, and Art suggested conducting a focus group with some clients whose spending had declined or stopped.
It's time to take your business to the next level. Eileen Sharp and Vic Hightower were frustrated. After years of profitable, predictable growth, Swan Services was in a rut. Meetings were called and discussions held, but few decisions were made and even less got done. People were pointing fingers and assigning blame, but nothing happened to solve Swan's mounting problems. It felt as though they were working harder than ever but with less impact. The company Eileen and Vic had founded and built for 10 years was a different place. It just wasn't fun anymore. Their story is not unusual. The challenges they were facing are common, predictable, and solvable. Get A Grip tells the story of how Swan...
Do what you love—with people you love. Make a huge difference. Get compensated accordingly. And still have time for other passions. The EOS Life will help you to discover, clarify, and customize the life you want to live: one where you do what you love every day, with the people you love doing it with—while at the same time making a huge difference and impact, getting compensated very well for doing it, and still having plenty of time to pursue other passions, hobbies, and interests that energize you. From Gino Wickman, creator of the Traction Library, TheEOS Life will give you practical, real-world, time-tested tools and insights to maximize your productivity, vitality, happiness, and work-life balance. This book is a must-read for all entrepreneurs and their leadership team members interested in living their ideal life.
Developmental evaluation (DE) offers a powerful approach to monitoring and supporting social innovations by working in partnership with program decision makers. In this book, eminent authority Michael Quinn Patton shows how to conduct evaluations within a DE framework. Patton draws on insights about complex dynamic systems, uncertainty, nonlinearity, and emergence. He illustrates how DE can be used for a range of purposes: ongoing program development, adapting effective principles of practice to local contexts, generating innovations and taking them to scale, and facilitating rapid response in crisis situations. Students and practicing evaluators will appreciate the book's extensive case examples and stories, cartoons, clear writing style, "closer look" sidebars, and summary tables. Provided is essential guidance for making evaluations useful, practical, and credible in support of social change.
Is settling for “pretty good” keeping you from living your ideal life? In The EOS Life, EOS founder Gino Wickman laid the groundwork for readers to create their ideal life—one where you do what you love every day with people you enjoy working with, make a huge impact, and get compensated well—and still have plenty of time to pursue other passions, hobbies and interests that energize you. The EOS Life Journal + Planner is your essential quarterly companion to The EOS Life, offering: Exercises that help you apply what you learned in the book Questions to get your gears turning Daily planning pages designed for maximum productivity Space to take important notes Stop settling for less and start living your best life—this EOS life.
Master the People Component of your business by building an intentional culture with the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). The second installment of the Traction Library’s EOS Mastery Series, People gives readers all the tools they need to create a thriving workplace culture and shows why it’s an absolutely essential part of any successful business. Hit-or-miss hiring, flagging productivity, infighting, employees in positions not suited to their strengths, or an inability to attract and retain good candidates are just some of the symptoms of a haphazard company. And they won’t go away on their own—you have to have the courage to build an intentional culture. Using the proven EOS heart-centered leadership approach, readers will learn how to: Identify and implement your company’s Core Values Adopt healthy cultural habits without overcomplicating things Attract, hire, and retain the right people Creating an intentional culture isn’t optional—it’s crucial to ensuring the future of your business and improving the quality of your life. People will teach entrepreneurs how to get their employees on board and on the same page for a culture overhaul.
The second edition of Patton's classic text retains the practical advice, based on empirical observation and evaluation theory, of the original. It shows how to conduct an evaluation, from beginning to end, in a way that will be useful -- and actually used. Patton believes that evaluation epitomizes the challenges of producing and using information in the information age. His latest book includes new stories, new examples, new research findings, and more of Patton's evaluation humour. He adds to the original book's insights and analyses of the changes in evaluation during the past decade, including: the emergence of evaluation as a field of professional practice; articulation of standards fo...
'Imogen Quy positively sparkles on the page as an amateur sleuth' - Sunday Express What is the Summerfield secret? Biography is usually a safe profession. But more than one biographer has found that writing about the late mathematician Gideon Summerfield has nasty consequences. Consequences that can sometimes be deadly. Imogen Quy, the coolly competent nurse at St. Agatha's College, Cambridge, first notices the pattern when her enthusiastic lodger Fran becomes the latest Summerfield biographer. Before she realises how deadly the Summerfield secret is, Fran's life is in danger. And Imogen may be next . . .
OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD! Do you have a grip on your business, or does your business have a grip on you? All entrepreneurs and business leaders face similar frustrations—personnel conflict, profit woes, and inadequate growth. Decisions never seem to get made, or, once made, fail to be properly implemented. But there is a solution. It's not complicated or theoretical.The Entrepreneurial Operating System® is a practical method for achieving the business success you have always envisioned. More than 80,000 companies have discovered what EOS can do. In Traction, you'll learn the secrets of strengthening the six key components of your business. You'll discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company that will give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment. Successful companies are applying Traction every day to run profitable, frustration-free businesses—and you can too. For an illustrative, real-world lesson on how to apply Traction to your business, check out its companion book, Get A Grip.