Traction
by Gino Wickman
Wickman's Entrepreneurial Operating System: six components (vision, people, data, issues, process, traction) with specific tools, the accountability chart, scorecards, rocks, the weekly level-10 meeting. It is practical to the point of being a manual, written for companies with ten to two hundred people.
Read it if…
you lead a growing small company and everything depends on you remembering it.
Skip it if…
you are a solo operator or in a large corporation; the system is sized for the middle.
Three things you will actually use
- Answer the eight vision questions and share them.
- Right people, right seats; use the accountability chart.
- Set ninety-day rocks and review weekly.
Do this first
Hold a ninety-minute weekly meeting this week with a scorecard, rocks review and issues list.
Our verdict
A complete, unglamorous operating system; many companies run on it for a reason.
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