Mitchell York, Professional EOS ImplementerSep 10, 20201 minWant your Business to Thrive? Do the Big Stuff FirstIn EOS, we refer to 90-day goals as Rocks. Why? Picture in front of you a table. On it there is: A pile of rocks, representing the big...
Mitchell York, Professional EOS ImplementerSep 3, 20201 minThe First Day of [EOS] SchoolWith an EOS implementation, our first full day session with a leadership team is called Focus Day. (This snapshot is from one I...
Mitchell York, Professional EOS ImplementerAug 27, 20201 minDoing 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...
Mitchell York, Professional EOS ImplementerAug 20, 20201 minEvery Business Owner's Least Favorite Thing to DoLet's face it: almost no business owners think writing processes for their business is fun. Who wants an inch-thick procedure manual no...
Mitchell York, Professional EOS ImplementerAug 20, 20201 minHow 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...
Mitchell York, Professional EOS ImplementerAug 13, 20201 minThe Five Leadership Abilities Your Company Needs to GrowHow 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...
Mitchell YorkFeb 14, 20191 minWhy 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...
Mitchell YorkFeb 4, 20193 min3 Steps to Saving Your Small Business from Disastrous MistakesMy “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...
Mitchell York, Professional EOS ImplementerDec 17, 20183 minThree More Factors that Keep Small Businesses Small—And What to Do About ThemLast week I wrote about four characteristics of some small business owners that keep their small businesses small. They were:...
Mitchell YorkDec 11, 20183 minFour Factors that Keep Small Businesses Small—And What to Do About ThemAs 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...
Mitchell YorkNov 26, 20183 minWhen Productivity Goes Up in (Vape) SmokeA 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...
Mitchell YorkJun 15, 20182 minAre 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...
Mitchell YorkJun 5, 20183 minIf Your Boss Starts a Speech with "There are Three Kinds of People...." Run, Run AwayMy 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...
Mitchell YorkJun 4, 20181 minLeaders with Potty MouthI started listening to the audiobook version of Radical Candor by Kim Scott, based on a client's recommendation. It's about nine hours...
Mitchell YorkAug 7, 20172 minAre 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....
Mitchell YorkMar 17, 20161 minI Know Everything About Networking....NOTI'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...
Mitchell York, Professional EOS ImplementerJan 3, 20161 min12 Minutes to Increasing the Value of Your BusinessI have expanded my coaching practice through a partnership with a company called Built to Sell Inc., which has developed a unique system...
Mitchell York, Professional EOS ImplementerAug 19, 20152 minWhat 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...
Mitchell York, Professional EOS ImplementerApr 24, 20152 minThe Key to Negotiating: Focus on the What, not the WhyIn a contentious negotiation between separating business partners (or marriage partners), the participants tend to focus on the why...
Mitchell York, Professional EOS ImplementerMar 20, 20153 minA Note to My 22-Year-Old SelfA 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.”...