What “Traction” Teaches Every Business, Regardless of Size

Traction EOS

Gino Wickman’s Traction built the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) around a simple idea: most business frustrations trace back to weaknesses in Six Key Components — Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process, and Traction itself. Strengthen those six, and almost any organization runs better. Vision forces leadership to answer where the company is going and get everyone […]

Why Lencioni’s “Five Dysfunctions” Still Holds Up in 2026

Patrick Lencioni published The Five Dysfunctions of a Team in 2002 as a business fable exploring the fundamental causes of organizational politics and team failure. Two decades later, his pyramid — trust, conflict, commitment, accountability, results — is more relevant than I expected it to be, especially having built and scaled teams through it in […]

3 Ways to Actually Get Started with AI (Not Just Talk About It)

AI in Business

Every leadership team I talk to knows AI matters. Fewer know where to start. Having scaled revenue orgs from less than $5M to $160M+, here is what separates companies that see real ROI from those still “exploring”: 1. Start in revenue operationsAI pilots stall when they are handed to a lab team disconnected from P&L […]