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Mike Paton is an EOS Implementer and co-author who has helped numerous leadership teams apply EOS principles to improve their businesses.
Known for: Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable... Your Journey to Get Real, Get Simple, and Get Results, Process!: How Discipline and Consistency Will Set You and Your Business Free
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Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable... Your Journey to Get Real, Get Simple, and Get Results
Get A Grip is a business fable that follows the fictional company Swan Services as its leaders struggle to regain control and direction. Through the implementation of the Entrepreneurial Operating Sys...
Process!: How Discipline and Consistency Will Set You and Your Business Free
Process! explains how to build a stronger business by mastering the art of process documentation and implementation. Drawing from the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), the authors show how to id...
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Finding Direction Amidst Chaos: The Struggles of Swan Services
When we first meet the team at Swan Services, it’s clear they are a group of well-intentioned, hardworking people—but utterly out of sync. Don, the company’s integrator, is exhausted by constant firefighting. Jill, the visionary founder, brims with ideas but feels no one shares her drive. Their lead...
From Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable... Your Journey to Get Real, Get Simple, and Get Results
Clarifying the Vision: Building the Foundation of EOS
Chris starts by asking a deceptively simple question: where are you going? The silence in the room is telling. Each leader gives a different answer, proof of the team’s lack of alignment. To fix this, Chris introduces the Vision/Traction Organizer (V/TO)—a document that distills an organization’s pu...
From Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable... Your Journey to Get Real, Get Simple, and Get Results
The EOS Context
To understand how process fits into the bigger picture, we start with the EOS Model. EOS isn’t just a methodology—it’s a holistic framework that helps entrepreneurial companies achieve what we call Vision, Traction, and Healthy. It consists of six key components: Vision, People, Data, Issues, Proces...
From Process!: How Discipline and Consistency Will Set You and Your Business Free
Defining Process
One of the biggest hurdles we encounter is the perception that processes are boring, bureaucratic, or restrictive. Many entrepreneurs equate ‘process’ with red tape. But we dispel that myth early and firmly. A process, in its simplest form, is just a series of steps that consistently produce the des...
From Process!: How Discipline and Consistency Will Set You and Your Business Free
About Mike Paton
Mike Paton is an EOS Implementer and co-author who has helped numerous leadership teams apply EOS principles to improve their businesses.
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