# EOS Worldwide: Entrepreneurial Operating System

> EOS \- Entrepreneurial Operating System for Businesses, home of Traction tools \& library

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## Pages
- [About EOS Worldwide](https://www.eosworldwide.com/eos-history-team)
- [Start Here](https://www.eosworldwide.com/start-here)
- [EOS Conference Terms and Conditions](https://www.eosworldwide.com/terms-conditions/eos-conference)
- [Privacy Policy](https://www.eosworldwide.com/privacy-policy)
- [\[HUB\] Data Component](https://www.eosworldwide.com/data-component)
- [\[HUB\] Issues Component](https://www.eosworldwide.com/issues-component)
- [\[HUB\] People Component](https://www.eosworldwide.com/people-component)
- [\[HUB\] Process Component](https://www.eosworldwide.com/process-component)
- [\[HUB\] Traction Component](https://www.eosworldwide.com/traction-component)
- [\[HUB\] Vision Component](https://www.eosworldwide.com/vision-component)
- [\[Spoke\] 1\-Year Plan](https://www.eosworldwide.com/1-year-plan)
- [\[Spoke\] 10\-Year Target](https://www.eosworldwide.com/10-year-target)
- [\[Spoke\] 3\-Year Picture](https://www.eosworldwide.com/3-year-picture)
- [\[Spoke\] Accountability Chart](https://www.eosworldwide.com/accountability-chart)
- [\[Spoke\] Clarity Break](https://www.eosworldwide.com/clarity-break)
- [\[Spoke\] Core Focus](https://www.eosworldwide.com/core-focus)
- [\[Spoke\] Delegate and Elevate](https://www.eosworldwide.com/delegate-and-elevate)
- [\[Spoke\] Core Values](https://www.eosworldwide.com/core-values)
- [\[Spoke\] EOS vs 4DX](https://www.eosworldwide.com/eos-vs-4dx)
- [\[Spoke\] EOS vs Agile](https://www.eosworldwide.com/eos-vs-agile)
- [\[Spoke\] EOS vs Holacracy](https://www.eosworldwide.com/eos-vs-holacracy)
- [\[Spoke\] EOS vs Great Game of Business](https://www.eosworldwide.com/eos-vs-great-game-of-business)
- [\[Spoke\] EOS vs OKRs](https://www.eosworldwide.com/eos-vs-okrs)
- [\[Spoke\] EOS vs Lean](https://www.eosworldwide.com/eos-vs-lean)
- [\[Spoke\] EOS vs Scaling Up](https://www.eosworldwide.com/eos-vs-scaling-up)
- [\[Spoke\] EOS vs V2MOM](https://www.eosworldwide.com/eos-vs-v2mom)
- [\[Spoke\] GWC](https://www.eosworldwide.com/gwc)
- [\[Spoke\] Issues List](https://www.eosworldwide.com/issues-list)
- [\[Spoke\] IDS](https://www.eosworldwide.com/ids)
- [\[Spoke\] Level 10 Meeting](https://www.eosworldwide.com/level-10-meeting)
- [\[Spoke\] Meeting Pulse](https://www.eosworldwide.com/meeting-pulse)
- [\[Spoke\] Marketing Strategy](https://www.eosworldwide.com/marketing-strategy)
- [\[Spoke\] People Analyzer](https://www.eosworldwide.com/people-analyzer)
- [\[Spoke\] Rocks](https://www.eosworldwide.com/rocks)
- [\[Spoke\] Scorecard](https://www.eosworldwide.com/scorecard)
- [\[Spoke\] V/TO](https://www.eosworldwide.com/vto)
- [\[Spoke\] Three\-Step Process Documenter](https://www.eosworldwide.com/three-step-process-documenter)
- [\[Spoke\] Visionary vs Integrator](https://www.eosworldwide.com/visionary-vs-integrator)
- [How to Become an EOS Implementer® FAQs \| EOS Implementer® FAQs](https://www.eosworldwide.com/frequently-asked-questions)

## Posts
- [Comfortable with Boring: How Shannon Badger Built a More Predictable Business](https://www.eosworldwide.com/blog/comfortable-with-boring-shannon-badger-predictable-business)
- [EOS Certification Explained: What It Is, What It’s Not, and How to Become an EOS Implementer](https://www.eosworldwide.com/blog/eos-certification-explained-what-it-is-what-its-not-and-how-to-become-an-eos-implementer)
- [Grow or Die: Why the Best Leaders Never Stop Learning](https://www.eosworldwide.com/blog/why-the-best-leaders-never-stop-learning)
- [Loving the Work You Keep: How Ryan Hawk Decides What Still Belongs to Him](https://www.eosworldwide.com/blog/loving-the-work-you-keep-how-ryan-hawk-decides-what-still-belongs-to-him)
- [He Sold His Company, Only to Buy It Right Back](https://www.eosworldwide.com/blog/he-sold-his-company-only-to-buy-it-right-back)

## Stories
- [Lee Willwerth](https://www.eosworldwide.com/story/lee-willwerth)
- [Rick VanDermyden](https://www.eosworldwide.com/story/rick-vandermyden)
- [Jodi Owczarski](https://www.eosworldwide.com/story/jodi-owczarski)
- [Catherine Juon](https://www.eosworldwide.com/story/catherine-juon)
- [Jill Young](https://www.eosworldwide.com/story/jill-young)

## Case Studies
- [Interim Healthcare of Sioux Falls](https://www.eosworldwide.com/case-study/interim-healthcare-of-sioux-falls): As a veteran\-owned, women\-owned, and family\-owned business, Interim Healthcare of Sioux Falls is one of 350 franchise offices under the larger Caring Brands International umbrella\. It opened its Sioux Falls office in December 1991 and has since added locations in Brookings, Fargo, and Bismarck with more than 500 employees\.

- [Red River Gorgeous](https://www.eosworldwide.com/case-study/red-river-gorgeous): A third\-generation family business, Red River Gorgeous has operated since 1994 in the Red River Gorge, Kentucky, just southeast of Lexington\. One of the few companies managing rental cabins within the Red River Gorge Geological Area/Daniel Boone National Park, they offer a selection of unique rentals, including traditional cabins, off\-grid structures, and treehouses\. 
- [Hebert Grain Ventures \(HGV\)](https://www.eosworldwide.com/case-study/hgv): Visionary Benny Fisher started the Big Fish Company after being fired from his uncle’s roofing business\. Big Fish boomed, but Benny struggled without the right structure and processes in place\. Through Running on EOS™, he found the guardrails and direction he needed to run a successful company and become an inspiration to others\.
- [Lauft](https://www.eosworldwide.com/case-study/lauft): LAUFT founder and Visionary Graham Wong wanted his Toronto\-based flexible workspace company to provide more than just a shared space\. By Running on EOS™, LAUFT not only survived multiple pandemic lockdowns but also emerged prepared to completely change its industry\.
- [Big Fish Co\.](https://www.eosworldwide.com/case-study/big-fish-co): Visionary Benny Fisher started the Big Fish Company after being fired from his uncle’s roofing business\. Big Fish boomed, but Benny struggled without the right structure and processes in place\. Through Running on EOS™, he found the guardrails and direction he needed to run a successful company and become an inspiration to others\.

## Webinars
- [WBENC WEBINAR \- WE RUN ON EOS: GET A GRIP ON YOUR BUSINESS](https://www.eosworldwide.com/webinar/wbenc-webinar-we-run-on-eos-get-a-grip-on-your-business)

## Books
- [Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business](https://www.eosworldwide.com/books/traction-get-a-grip-on-your-business): The foundational EOS playbook—strengthen all Six Key Components™ so your leadership team gets aligned traction and a healthier, more enjoyable company to run\.
- [What the Heck is EOS?](https://www.eosworldwide.com/books/what-the-heck-is-eos): EOS in plain language for employees—short chapters and discussion prompts that build ownership and buy\-in from the staff level up\.
- [How to Be a Great Boss](https://www.eosworldwide.com/books/how-to-be-a-great-boss): Straightforward habits for bosses at every level—clarity, feedback, and accountability so people stay engaged and perform without you micromanaging\.
- [Get a Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable](https://www.eosworldwide.com/books/get-a-grip-an-entrepreneurial-fable): A fast\-reading business fable that shows EOS in action—so your team can see how the tools fit together before you roll them out for real\.
- [Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination](https://www.eosworldwide.com/books/rocket-fuel-the-one-essential-combination): Defines the Visionary and Integrator seats—and how a strong partnership between them becomes the engine that turns vision into steady execution\.

## Feed Groups
- [News sites](https://www.eosworldwide.com/feedzy-category/news-sites)
- [Test Category](https://www.eosworldwide.com/feedzy-category/test-category)

## Episode
- [S1E29: What Bull Riding Taught Him About Risk](https://www.eosworldwide.com/hitting-the-ceiling/s1e29-what-bull-riding-taught-him-about-risk): Rick Gardner was supposed to ride bulls for a living\. Then an injury took that future away, a roofing business taught him that fast growth can look a lot like talent when luck is doing most of the work, and years later the same need to figure everything out followed him into engineering, startups, and leadership\. 

- [S1E28: Nobody Is Coming to Save You](https://www.eosworldwide.com/hitting-the-ceiling/s1e28-nobody-is-coming-to-save-you): Clay Harris learned early not to wait for someone else to fix things\. His father was mostly absent, his mother was raising him on her own, and one of the adults who believed in him most was a high school teacher who would simply point to a banner at the front of the classroom that read, “Look inside yourself\.” That lesson followed Clay into adulthood, through entrepreneurship, leadership, and every moment when people were looking to him for answers, but over time the instinct to rely on himself became harder to separate from the pressure to carry everything himself\.

- [S1E27: You Can't Save Your Team from Themselves](https://www.eosworldwide.com/hitting-the-ceiling/s1e27-you-cant-save-your-team-from-themselves): Shannon Badger helped grow Badger CPA from nothing into a 60\-person firm, but behind the inspiring growth story was a founder learning in real time how much a business can take from your confidence, marriage, health, parenting, and sense of control\. As the firm scaled, Shannon and her husband Jonathan remortgaged their house, gave up vacations, and saw the outcome of spending too much time away from their young kids\. Eventually, Shannon realized she couldn’t simply “work harder” to magically solve unclear roles, weak systems, bad incentives, or the people problems they were avoiding\. She needed a system, and fast\.
- [S1E26: What Do You Do When the Dream Depends on Your Name? \| Ryan Hawk of the Learning Leader Show](https://www.eosworldwide.com/hitting-the-ceiling/s1e26-what-do-you-do-when-the-dream-depends-on-your-name-ryan-hawk-of-the-learning-leader-show): Ryan Hawk built his life around hard work, competition, and consistency, but losing the quarterback job to Ben Roethlisberger forced him to confront an uncomfortable truth: sometimes effort alone cannot change the outcome\. Years later, he walked away from a successful corporate career to turn his side hustle, The Learning Leader Show, into a business—only to realize that the podcast, the coaching work, and now, the livelihoods of his team are overly dependent on him\. In this episode, Mark O’Donnell and Ryan talk through how they learned that sometimes you have to change the situation instead of grinding harder\.

- [S1E25: When Your Business Starts Owning You](https://www.eosworldwide.com/hitting-the-ceiling/s1e25-when-your-business-starts-owning-you): Brock Beiersdoerfer and his wife Kimberly opened The Heavenly Donut Company hoping to build something meaningful, but the business soon had Brock working brutal hours, worrying about payroll, covering overnight shifts, and watching the freedom they wanted disappear\. The pressure peaked in moments like a 35\-hour shift, canceled direct deposits, unreliable employees, and the realization that the business was consuming time he could never recover with his family\.


## Categories
- [EOS Mastery](https://www.eosworldwide.com/category/blog)
- [News](https://www.eosworldwide.com/category/news)
- [Running on EOS](https://www.eosworldwide.com/running-on-eos)
- [Strong in Six](https://www.eosworldwide.com/category/strong-in-six)
- [Guest Blog](https://www.eosworldwide.com/category/guest-blog)

## Story Categories
- [Organization](https://www.eosworldwide.com/story-category/organization)

## Podcasts
- [Rocket Fuel](https://www.eosworldwide.com/series/rocket-fuel)
- [We Run on EOS](https://www.eosworldwide.com/series/we-run-on-eos)
- [Hitting the Ceiling](https://www.eosworldwide.com/series/hitting-the-ceiling)
- [The EOS Leader](https://www.eosworldwide.com/series/the-eos-leader)
- [Focus \& Vision](https://www.eosworldwide.com/series/focus-vision)

## Optional
- [Sitemap index](https://www.eosworldwide.com/sitemap_index.xml)