Our leadership team struggles with the hand-off from setting Rocks to executing them. We agree on the Rocks during our quarterly pulsing, but by week three, people are working in silos and we have no visibility into whether we are on track until it is too late. How do we build weekly peer accountability for Rocks without micro-managing?

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Tyler Smith · Accepted Answer

Peer accountability is the missing ingredient for finishing Rocks. In EOS®, we do not micro-manage. Instead, we use the weekly Level 10 Meeting™ to keep Rocks highly visible. Your weekly Rock review must be ruthless and fast. Each owner looks their peers in the eye and states whether their Rock is on track or off track. If a Rock is off track, you do not solve it during the review. You immediately drop it to the Issues List. This keeps the reporting honest. Leaders often hesitate to say off track because they want to avoid a lecture. By normalizing dropping off-track Rocks to the Issues List, you treat it as an opportunity for the team to help, not as a performance review. To make this stick, ensure every Rock has clear, binary criteria for completion established on day one. A Rock is either done or not done. If a leader says their Rock is on track but has no milestone data to prove it, the Integrator must challenge them. Peer pressure and transparency within the Level 10 Meeting™ are far more effective than any top-down management style. This weekly rhythm keeps the focus sharp so every priority crosses the finish line by week twelve.