Our leadership team is deeply divided on our basic business model and long-term goals. Are we too fractured or unaligned to start a formal EOS® engagement, or is that exactly why we should begin?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

If your leadership team is deeply divided on your basic business model and long-term goals, you are actually in the perfect position to begin your EOS® journey. You do not need to have a perfect, unified vision before we start. Helping your team find alignment is exactly what our session days are designed to achieve.

However, there is a difference between constructive debate and destructive dysfunction. If your team members are unwilling to put the greater good of the company ahead of their personal agendas, then you are not ready. To succeed with EOS®, every member of the leadership team must be willing to enter the room with an open mind and a commitment to absolute honesty.

During our Focus Day and subsequent sessions, we will use the V/TO® to hammer out your core values, core focus, and ten-year target. This process is often loud and emotional. We will have hard conversations, and we will debate your business model until we reach consensus.

If you wait until your team is perfectly aligned before you hire me, you will wait forever. The chaos you are experiencing is the very symptom that EOS® is designed to cure. As long as your team is willing to look at the hard truths and commit to a single direction once a decision is made, you are ready to begin.