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Mitchell York, Professional EOS Implementer
- Sep 3, 2020
- 1 min
The First Day of [EOS] School
With an EOS implementation, our first full day session with a leadership team is called Focus Day. (This snapshot is from one I...
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Mitchell York, Professional EOS Implementer
- Aug 27, 2020
- 1 min
Doing Less with Less
[I wrote this article for the ClientWise eXchange, a forum for financial advisers. I thought the basic concept might be useful to...
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Mitchell York, Professional EOS Implementer
- Aug 20, 2020
- 1 min
Every Business Owner's Least Favorite Thing to Do
Let's face it: almost no business owners think writing processes for their business is fun. Who wants an inch-thick procedure manual no...
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Mitchell York, Professional EOS Implementer
- Aug 20, 2020
- 1 min
How does this EOS Thing Work?
Many business owners come across the business best-seller Traction by Gino Wickman and wonder how they can implement the Entrepreneurial...
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Mitchell York, Professional EOS Implementer
- Aug 13, 2020
- 1 min
The Five Leadership Abilities Your Company Needs to Grow
How do you go from $1 million in sales to $2 million, and then to $5 million and beyond? It's an uneven path. But it's possible if you...
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Mitchell York
- Feb 14, 2019
- 1 min
Why Entrepreneurs Implement EOS
"It's important to understand that the skillset and mentality to start your business is often not the same mentality that it takes to...
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Mitchell York
- Feb 4, 2019
- 3 min
3 Steps to Saving Your Small Business from Disastrous Mistakes
My “rule of two” kicked in this morning. The rule is triggered when I read two news stories on the same day about the same business...
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Mitchell York, Professional EOS Implementer
- Dec 17, 2018
- 3 min
Three More Factors that Keep Small Businesses Small—And What to Do About Them
Last week I wrote about four characteristics of some small business owners that keep their small businesses small. They were:...
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Mitchell York
- Dec 11, 2018
- 3 min
Four Factors that Keep Small Businesses Small—And What to Do About Them
As hard as it is for a business to get to $2 million in sales, it’s often an order of magnitude harder to double to $4 million. Having...
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Mitchell York
- Nov 26, 2018
- 3 min
When Productivity Goes Up in (Vape) Smoke
A CEO client of mine, head of an architectural engineering firm with 16 employees, has a problem. One of his staff who's in charge of...
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Mitchell York
- Jun 15, 2018
- 2 min
Are You a Virtual Corporate Arsonist?
Today’s paper had a story about a volunteer firefighter who set an abandoned house ablaze so he could be the first to respond and be a...
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Mitchell York
- Jun 5, 2018
- 3 min
If Your Boss Starts a Speech with "There are Three Kinds of People...." Run, Run Away
My last real job ended in 2001, shortly after 9/11, when the company I worked for laid off all of the employees in the division I was in...
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Mitchell York
- Jun 4, 2018
- 1 min
Leaders with Potty Mouth
I started listening to the audiobook version of Radical Candor by Kim Scott, based on a client's recommendation. It's about nine hours...
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Mitchell York
- Aug 7, 2017
- 2 min
Are You Using Your Personal Currency?
Something's in the water. I have four clients whose wives have either given birth in the past two weeks or are about to in the next week....
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Mitchell York
- Mar 17, 2016
- 1 min
I Know Everything About Networking....NOT
I'm not a natural networker, but I've read many books on the subject and keep at it whenever I can muster the courage. (My favorite...
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Mitchell York, Professional EOS Implementer
- Jan 3, 2016
- 1 min
12 Minutes to Increasing the Value of Your Business
I have expanded my coaching practice through a partnership with a company called Built to Sell Inc., which has developed a unique system...
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Mitchell York, Professional EOS Implementer
- Aug 19, 2015
- 2 min
What to Do When Team Members Go Rogue
[I wrote this post for financial advisors but it applies to other industries as well.] What happens when your team members diverge from...
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Mitchell York, Professional EOS Implementer
- Apr 24, 2015
- 2 min
The Key to Negotiating: Focus on the What, not the Why
In a contentious negotiation between separating business partners (or marriage partners), the participants tend to focus on the why...
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Mitchell York, Professional EOS Implementer
- Mar 20, 2015
- 3 min
A Note to My 22-Year-Old Self
A former colleague of mine, Tony Uphoff, wrote a post for his LinkedIn page with the tantalizing title, “A Note to My 22-Year-Old Self.”...
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