Traction
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business helps you discover simple yet powerful ways to run your company in order to give you and your leadership team more focus, more growth, and more enjoyment. Author Gino Wickman introduces The Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®), a practical method for achieving the business success you have always envisioned. EOS® is a set of comprehensive processes and tools to help leadership teams overcome key business challenges, gain control of the business, operate efficiently, gain traction and move ahead as a healthy, effective and cohesive team.
Vision – “clearly defining who and what your organization is, where it’s going and how it’s going to get there”
People – “getting the Right People in the Right Seats”
Data – “using a handful of numbers that give everyone an exact pulse on where things are, and when they are off track”
Issues – “strengthening your organization’s ability to identify issues, address them, and make them go away forever”
Process – “systemizing your business by identifying and documenting the core processes that define the way to run your business
Traction – the ability for business leaders to “execute well, and they know how to bring focus, accountability, and discipline to their organization
BOOK REVIEWS
"Since implementing the entrepreneurial operating system outlined in [Traction], my company has been more productive than ever. . . . The book brings proven business best practices from the top thought leaders in business into one hands-on manual that you can apply today."
—Dan Moshe, founder and CEO of Tech Guru, for The Business Journals' "The most important Business books ever written"
"Implementing [Traction's] structured approach at Avondale has had a tremendous impact on our leadership's productivity and has improved operations throughout the organization."
—Karl Stark and Bill Stewart, cofounders, Avondale
"The concepts and tools that have been masterfully captured in the pages of this book have provided some of the magic that has helped us grow our business 300 percent over the last five years. Don't miss it!"
—Craig Erlich, CEO, pulse220
"The concepts in this book have changed my life! I'm now able to let go of the day to day, knowing I have developed a team that can efficiently handle the details. We have consistently grown every year for the last four years in a very tough market, while the competition has struggled."
—Ronald A. Blank, President, The Franklin Companies
"Having coached and trained over 13,000 entrepreneurs, I know the challenges they face. This book is a must for any business owner and their management team. Traction provides a powerful, practical, and simple system for running your business "
—Dan Sullivan, President and Founder, The Strategic Coach
"With the Traction tools in place, we now have faster growth, increased profitability and great people that we enjoy working with. Our growth rate has averaged over 20 percent per year. These results put us in a position to sell our company to a public company for above-normal multiples and reacquire the company after just a year and a half."
—Rob Dube, President, Image One