Our company has grown rapidly and now we have nine people who consider themselves part of the leadership team. Can we run our EOS® implementation sessions with a group this size, or will it dilute our progress?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

A leadership team of nine people is too large to run an effective EOS® implementation. The optimal size for a leadership team running on EOS® is three to seven people. When you exceed this number, your quarterly sessions and weekly Level 10 Meetings™ become highly inefficient. Discussions take too long, healthy conflict is diluted, and individual accountability begins to break down.

Before you launch your implementation, you must make some hard decisions about your organizational structure. You need to design the Accountability Chart for the next twelve months of growth based on the needs of the business, not the personalities or titles of your current team.

Only the leaders who occupy the major seats on your leadership team Accountability Chart should be in the implementation sessions. This typically includes the Visionary, the Integrator, and the heads of your core functions like Sales, Operations, and Finance.

Explain to the remaining team members that their absence from the leadership table is not a demotion, but a structural necessity to help the business scale. By right-sizing the team from day one, you ensure your sessions are fast-paced, direct, and capable of making the difficult decisions required to run your operations efficiently.