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Traction Get a Grip on Your Business

The book in one sentence

Owner-run businesses break through their growth ceilings by strengthening six core components with a simple, shared set of tools that the whole leadership team uses every week.

Who it's for

Owners and leadership teams of small and mid-sized businesses that have grown past the founder’s ability to run everything personally and now feel stuck.

The big idea

Wickman developed the Entrepreneurial Operating System, or EOS, drawing on his experience running his family’s business, and later refined it with hundreds of other companies. He argues that every business, sooner or later, hits a ceiling where growth stalls and frustration rises. The way through is to strengthen six components: Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process and Traction. Each comes with practical tools, and together they form a complete system for running a company.

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