What the Heck is EOS?

A Complete Guide for Employees in Companies Running on EOS

By: Gino Wickman, Tom Bouwer

Narrated by: Corey Snow

Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins

Publisher's Summary

Has your company struggled to roll EOS out to all levels of your organization? Do your employees understand why EOS is important or even what it is?

What the Heck is EOS? is for the millions of employees in companies running their businesses on EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System).

An easy and fast listen, this book answers the questions many employees have about EOS and their company:

• What is an operating system?
• What is EOS and why is my company using it?
• What are the EOS foundational tools and how do they impact me?
• What's in it for me?

Designed to engage employees in the EOS process and tools, What the Heck is EOS? uses simple, straightforward language and provides questions about each tool for managers and employees to discuss creating more ownership and buy-in at the staff level. After listening to this book, employees will not only have a better understanding of EOS but they will be more engaged, taking an active role in helping achieve your company's vision.

Download the accompanying reference guide.

©2017 Gino Wickman and Tom Bouwer (P)2017 Audible, Inc.

Get Ready for a WBOA

Get ready for LOA (lots of acronyms)! This mediocre book is fraught with borrowed material (from Good to Great, Game of Work, etc.) without giving credit. You will NOT want to read this book on your own as a way to gain some great new insights into goals, management, and tracking as it contains no earth-shattering RFBs (revelations for business).

The ONLY reason to read this book is if your company has recently hired a consultant who is requiring you to do so. Not saying IAB (it’s all bad). It simply puts a framework around CSAs (common sense activities).

While it's a given in business that a structure is needed for inculcating purpose and providing metrics for TAR (tracking and reporting), the constant use of acronyms in this work gets very annoying and makes you feel the author is covering up for LOLC (lack of legitimate content). One clue this is happening: when things are shortened that don't need to be (like a "Level 10" meeting being shortened to "L10"). Another: when they turn acronyms into verbs. (My personal favorite is ISD-ing!)

If your company has no formal structure and you need some, TMBTBFY (this might be the book for you). But if you’re already swimming in bureaucratic red tape, my advice is to RTOW (run the other way) because this book will only add to it.

Perfect

It was good to read this book after reading Traction. Such a great idea to have a resource that can be given to staff so they can understand and contribute to the Organisational implementation of EOS.

At least it's only two hours...

Not great. Seems to be the next gimmick companies are buying into. Change my mind.

Structural benefits await

I am now more excited for the benefit of structure and accountability at my workplace. I'm looking forward to the ability I will have to better contribute and feel a part of the company as a whole.

Basic common sense, nothing new or unique

very disappointing, the book concepts are very basic, they just come up with their own terminology to make it sound clever. it was a waste of time and money. personally, I didn't find anything useful in it, felt my intelligence insulted every other page.

Great Book

should be the first one you read or listen to if you're company is running EOS.THANKS

Boring and horribly written..

Please, please have your business self-help dribble written by someone who actually knows how to write in the future. This was a painfully boring pile meaningless word salad. Thanks for nothing.

A must have leadership book!

if your company is struggling with Employee Engagement this is the book for you. Not only teaches the employee but it also holds leaders accountable to staying with a simple yet powerful system

Great operating system for business to use.

The book lays out a clear and concise system on how to effectively run your business, which is easy to understand.

Short and concise!

To the point. Get’s tactical and brings it to the ground quickly. Appreciate a short listen to help employees get up to speed quickly.

Sounds sensible - now to try it!

Sounds like a decent system. I was looking all over the place for this kind of a thing for my company.

I'll give it a go, and will read another Gino Wickman book - time will tell if it sticks or not!

Good summary of EOS system

I read this book after reading Traction. It contains the same material but from an employee's perspective. I found it very help full and useful to obtain a fuller understanding of the system and its implementation into it work place. Easy to listen to and follow.

Simple and affective way to run your business

Simple and affective way to run a business. Loved how the author used examples to explain situations. Can't believe how simple it sounds to use, and can't wait to start using it.