Operating Your Startup — Quick EOS Template
I’m a huge fan of the EOS system. (If you are interested in improving your business’s operational efficacy, Traction is well worth the read) Before EOS, I ran my last startup off a series of Trello boards, Jira stories, spreadsheets, QuickBooks, asana boards, salesforce, and proprietary backend reporting systems. It was a messy thing to operate and the disparate systems created separate organizations within the company vs unifying us toward our single mission. My weekly management meetings seemed to be the topic of the week vs viewing what was upcoming & offsite meetings were mostly useless.
Enter EOS
I talked to a bunch of people about how to improve this and I got a lot of tactical advice but nothing to unify the overall operations of the company. Finally, an advisor turned me on to Traction which I read and then he showed me how he runs his billion-dollar company — 1 spreadsheet. He walked me through how he does his team meetings using a single spreadsheet that added a new level of focus throughout the organization and increased accountability & visibility.
I was blown away.
I immediately tried to roll out the system into my existing startup which was about 100 people at the time. It didn’t work. The accountability was a culture shock and was rejected. My attempts at deploying the system…