Get a Grip

An Entrepreneurial Fable - Your Journey to Get Real, Get Simple, and Get Results

By: Mike Paton, Gino Wickman

Narrated by: T. David Rutherford

Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

It’s time to take your business to the next level.

Eileen Sharp and Vic Hightower were frustrated. After years of profitable, predictable growth, Swan Services was in a rut. Meetings were called and discussions held, but few decisions were made and even less got done. People were pointing fingers and assigning blame, but nothing happened to solve Swan’s mounting problems. It felt as though they were working harder than ever but with less impact. The company Eileen and Vic had founded and built for 10 years was a different place. It just wasn’t fun anymore.

Their story is not unusual. The challenges they were facing are common, predictable, and solvable. Get A Grip tells the story of how Swan Services resolves its issues by implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System. With the help of EOS, Eileen, Vic, and their leadership team master a set of managerial tools that allow them to get traction on their business, grow the business, and deliver better results for clients.

The story of Swan Services is a fable, but the Entrepreneurial Operating System is very real and has helped thousands of businesses worldwide. A complete entrepreneurial toolkit, EOS has helped thousands of businesses get to where they want to be.

In Get a Grip, learn how Swan Services leaders learned to develop and commit to a clear vision, establish focus, build discipline, and create a healthier and more cohesive team.

With characters and situations created from collective business experiences and stories, Get a Grip is a fable that will ring true for entrepreneurial leaders the world over and guide them to get their companies on track.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2012 Gino Wickman and Mike Paton (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

How to Bring A Subject To Life

Gino and Mike’s fable incorporates “ A Day In The Life” of how an EOS Implementor takes a struggling Leadership Team on a journey and changed their fortunes with the introduction of Traction principles, tools and processes. Great read.

Definitely worth the read!!

I loved it so much I listened twice and intend on listening again!! It was definitely worth the listen and the narrator kept me engaged as well.

Good story to visualize implementing EOS

This is a great listen to help understand and visualize how to implement EOS. I relisten occasionally and reference some parts when I want to reinforce or improve an aspect of the EOS method we've implemented.

Great Follow-up to the book Traction

I listened to this book on audible after listening to and reading Traction. This one really brought it home for me and allowed me to understand the concepts much better. The EOS/Traction is One of the most simple yet both actionable and powerful business tools to help you improve your company. I highly recommend!

Traction Tools at Work

Great story with Traction Tools the main character. Listen or read first, before you begin your Traction journey. Share with your leaders as well.

recommend if you're interested in EOS

Easy to understand and listen to
Content was informative in a story like form
Easy to relate to the problems and provided insight in how to fix them for good
A little repetitive in chapters 7 and 8 but that is to show how the system works and the issues in the story do change to show variety

if you have read Traction and think " wow" that looks good in theory but how do you implement it, then this will help

This is a must if you enjoyed Traction

This book sounds like an exact review of my business. I first listened to Traction as EOS is something I'm interested in implementing at our business. Get a grip digs into a businesses journey of implementing EOS and is a great guide if you're looking into EOS. Fun well read story, highly recommended!!

processes

This audible gives you great processes and ways to run your business properly Get it!

EOS is amazing

EOS provides a clear and coherent path to success and the fable format in this book does a great job illustrating the benefits.

Great for small business

This book is perfectly aligned to small business owners and managers. It's practical and actionable.