Mark O'Donnell

What's holding your company back from the growth you know is possible? Every entrepreneurial leader eventually hits a ceiling. The skills and grit that fueled your start-up can't carry you through scale-up. Instead of freedom, you feel frustration-people problems, profit pressures, lack of control, or endless firefighting. In Grow , Expert EOS ImplementersⓇ Jonathan B. Smith and Jeanet L. Wade reveal a proven roadmap for breaking through those barriers. Drawing on decades of experience guiding hundreds of leaders, they introduce the Optimize for Growth Model. With this powerful tool, learn how to establish: A Company Operating System to create clarity, accountability, and traction A Community of Peers to provide perspective, wisdom, and support A Coach to challenge and develop your leadership capabilities When these three elements work together, growth accelerates-and not just in revenue. You'll gain freedom of time, stronger teams, and the ability to focus on what matters most. Packed with real-world case studies, practical tools, and inspiring success stories, Grow will help you transform from an overwhelmed founder into a confident, capable leader of a thriving, self-managing company. It's time to stop hitting the ceiling. It's time to optimize for growth.

What's holding your company back from the growth you know is possible? Every entrepreneurial leader eventually hits a ceiling. The skills and grit that fueled your start-up can't carry you through scale-up. Instead of freedom, you feel frustration-people problems, profit pressures, lack of control, or endless firefighting. In Grow , Expert EOS ImplementersⓇ Jonathan B. Smith and Jeanet L. Wade reveal a proven roadmap for breaking through those barriers. Drawing on decades of experience guiding hundreds of leaders, they introduce the Optimize for Growth Model. With this powerful tool, learn how to establish: A Company Operating System to create clarity, accountability, and traction A Community of Peers to provide perspective, wisdom, and support A Coach to challenge and develop your leadership capabilities When these three elements work together, growth accelerates-and not just in revenue. You'll gain freedom of time, stronger teams, and the ability to focus on what matters most. Packed with real-world case studies, practical tools, and inspiring success stories, Grow will help you transform from an overwhelmed founder into a confident, capable leader of a thriving, self-managing company. It's time to stop hitting the ceiling. It's time to optimize for growth.

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. Many entrepreneurs struggle with people issues in their business: “hit-or-miss” hiring, flagging productivity, infighting, employees in positions that aren’t suited for their strengths, or an inability to attract and retain good candidates. These are just some of the symptoms of a haphazard company culture, 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, eventually getting to the point where the intentional culture self-perpetuates. This isn’t a one-time fix; building an intentional culture requires tending. But this book will provide readers with the framework to prevent many problems before they start, and to solve problems in a way that gets to the root of the issue, driving growth in both your business and your people themselves.

With today's market plagued by economic uncertainty, companies need to cut out anything slowing them down. The ability to tackle issues head-on isn't just nice to have anymore--it's your competitive advantage when things get tough. The biggest epidemic plaguing businesses today is the failure to solve issues quickly and permanently. Most companies get stuck in endless meetings that rehash the same problems without resolution, creating a culture of frustration and stagnation. Issues reveals the cure: a proven system used by tens of thousands of businesses to remove friction, fast-track growth, and ignite greatness. Authors Mark O'Donnell, Sue Hawkes, and Jill Young show you how to revolutionize your organization by: Mastering two essential tools to systematically tackle any business challenge, idea, opportunity, or obstacle Building a high-trust culture and understanding how to create psychological safety where teams can openly debate and challenge ideas without taking things personally, leading to better decisions Getting to the root of problems fast and solving what's really causing friction instead of just treating the symptoms Transforming meeting culture to turn boring, circular meetings into productive 90-minute meetings that consistently solve 5-15 issues per week Empowering every team member to be a problem-solving expert, creating leaders at every level Built on the foundation of the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), this methodology has helped leadership teams find quick solutions to every problem that arises. You'll learn to build a culture of openness and honest accountability, where teams attack problems together instead of hiding from them. Stop letting the same issues drain your energy and profits. Great companies solve issues as they arise and make them disappear forever, and this book shows you exactly how to become one of them. Your path from chaos to clarity starts here.

No one becomes an EOS Implementer because everything is working. Every EOS Implementer has an origin story. Before the tools. Before the models. Before the confidence to stand at the front of the room... For Alan Roth, it began the same way it does for so many entrepreneurial leaders: a successful business on paper, and a leadership team stuck in misalignment, frustration, and exhaustion. VISION, TRACTION, HEALTHY is the story of how Alan found EOS, lived EOS, and ultimately dedicated his life to helping others do the same. This Get a Grip prequel traces the transformation that turns an overwhelmed entrepreneur into a grounded, disciplined EOS Implementer. Inside this story, EOS Implementers and future Implementers will: Experience the Six Key Components as they unfold in real time, not theory Understand the deeper why behind Vision, Traction, and Healthy Witness the shift from Visionary chaos to disciplined, accountable execution Reconnect with the purpose of EOS: helping leaders get what they want from their businesses and their lives This is not a how-to guide. It's the story behind the work. If you've ever sat across the table from a Visionary on the edge, watched a leadership team finally become healthy, felt called to this work... This story will feel like home. Before you help others live the EOS Life, you have to live it yourself. Begin that journey today.

No one becomes an EOS Implementer because everything is working. Every EOS Implementer has an origin story. Before the tools. Before the models. Before the confidence to stand at the front of the room... For Alan Roth, it began the same way it does for so many entrepreneurial leaders: a successful business on paper, and a leadership team stuck in misalignment, frustration, and exhaustion. VISION, TRACTION, HEALTHY is the story of how Alan found EOS, lived EOS, and ultimately dedicated his life to helping others do the same. This Get a Grip prequel traces the transformation that turns an overwhelmed entrepreneur into a grounded, disciplined EOS Implementer. Inside this story, EOS Implementers and future Implementers will: Experience the Six Key Components as they unfold in real time, not theory Understand the deeper why behind Vision, Traction, and Healthy Witness the shift from Visionary chaos to disciplined, accountable execution Reconnect with the purpose of EOS: helping leaders get what they want from their businesses and their lives This is not a how-to guide. It's the story behind the work. If you've ever sat across the table from a Visionary on the edge, watched a leadership team finally become healthy, felt called to this work... This story will feel like home. Before you help others live the EOS Life, you have to live it yourself. Begin that journey today.

Your comprehensive guide to mastering The Data Component of your EOS Model—taking you from uncertain to unstoppable. Have you ever felt lost in knowing how your business is actually doing? Were you surprised by events that you didn’t see coming? Did you spend sleepless nights wondering whether or not your company was going to make it? Then Data is for you. This data-driven handbook is the third installment of the Traction Library’s EOS Mastery Series that provides all the tools you need to build an environment of transparency and get better results through clarity and accountability. Data will make you expert at: Using data in businessCreating meaningful ScorecardsImplementing Measurables for every member of your teamAnd identifying ways to drive more cash into your company. As one of the six components of the EOS Model, The Data Component helps you refine, simplify, and achieve your vision of understanding the numbers behind how your business is operating. The Data Component is designed to help you objectively see where you are going—both as a leader and as a company. It takes assumptions, subjective opinions, emotions, and ego out of the equation. You’ll gain confidence in knowing that you are running the business and it’s not running you. Data will give you more control and assurance in getting more of what you really want out of your team, your EOS model, and your business.

ÊHairsprayÊ is the 2003 Tony Award× winner for Best Musical! ÞBased on filmmaker John Waters' affectionately subversive homage to his Baltimore youth ÊHairsprayÊ takes place in 1962. Chubby Tracy Turnblad (Marissa Jaret Winokur 2003 Tony winner for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical) is transformed into a teen celebrity on a local TV dance program. With her irresistible stage mother (Harvey Fierstein 2003 Tony winner for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical) at her side she attempts to win the heart of the local heartthrob and integrate The Corny Collins Show at the same time.

"Uproarious...one of the funniest writers around."--The New Yorker Tad Leary has problems. Just fired from his job at a Manhattan private school, about to be evicted from his sublet, and stalled on his dissertation ("Social Hierarchies of Imaginary Places"), he wakes up on the Sunday before Christmas to realize he has seven parties to attend. A trooper in jeans and a pressed white shirt, he sets off for brunch with his eccentric family, an afternoon performance-art piece by a friend sporting little more than a tattooed goatee, a dinner party where he runs into an ex-girlfriend, a late-night soiree where he spars with an ex-boyfriend, and more. With a charming combination of wit, wisdom--and just a little whimpering--Tad charts a survivalist's course through Manhattan's social hierarchies. "A delight.... By turns zany and meditative, satirical and mellow...a gently bittersweet comedy."--Newsday "A wise, hilarious stocking stuffer."--The Village Voice