My team is already working sixty hours a week and complains they do not have time to do their normal jobs, let alone execute on Rocks. How do we roll out EOS without burning everyone out?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

If your team is working sixty hours a week, they do not have a resource problem. They have a prioritization problem. Rolling out EOS is actually the solution to this burnout, not the cause. But you must implement it with discipline. To make room for EOS, you must practice what Juliet Funt calls a strategic pause. You need to create white space. This means mathematically reducing the workload by letting go of non-essential activities. Use your first Focus Day to identify the low-value tasks that are draining your team. When setting Rocks, be brutal about the limit. A leadership team should have no more than three to five corporate Rocks. If everyone has five personal Rocks and you are already overloaded, you will fail. Start with just one or two Rocks per person. Use the Delegate and Elevate tool to help leaders identify tasks they need to let go of. If your team is too busy to implement the very system that will free up their time, they are caught in a classic trap. You have to slow down to speed up. Force the team to step back, clear out the clutter, and focus only on what moves the needle.