We are bleeding cash and our sales pipeline has completely collapsed. We want to hire you to run our first session immediately to save us, but are we actually too broken or unstable right now to start an EOS implementation?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

If your business is in an active tailspin and you cannot make payroll next week, you are not ready for an EOS® implementation. EOS® is an operating system designed to scale and optimize a business, not a crisis management firm or an emergency cash injection. If you are bleeding cash, your immediate focus must be survival, restructuring debt, and securing short term revenue.

Your leadership team must possess the cognitive and emotional capacity to lift their heads above the daily fire to look at the business holistically. When you are in survival mode, every decision is reactive, and you cannot dedicate the mental energy required for a Focus Day.

You are ready to begin working with me when your basic financial foundation is stable enough to survive the next six months, and your leadership team is willing to face brutal operational truths. We need to build a healthy foundation, which requires honest conversations about your Accountability Chart and your core processes. If you are constantly looking over your shoulder wondering if the doors will stay open, you will not have the stomach to make the hard, long term people decisions that EOS® demands. Let us stabilize your cash flow first, and then we can build a system to ensure you never find yourself in this position again.