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Get a Grip

An Entrepreneurial Fable - Your Journey to Get Real, Get Simple, and Get Results

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Get a Grip

By: Mike Paton, Gino Wickman
Narrated by: T. David Rutherford
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It’s time to take your business to the next level.

Eileen Sharp and Vic Hightower were frustrated. After years of profitable, predictable growth, Swan Services was in a rut. Meetings were called and discussions held, but few decisions were made and even less got done. People were pointing fingers and assigning blame, but nothing happened to solve Swan’s mounting problems. It felt as though they were working harder than ever but with less impact. The company Eileen and Vic had founded and built for 10 years was a different place. It just wasn’t fun anymore.

Their story is not unusual. The challenges they were facing are common, predictable, and solvable. Get A Grip tells the story of how Swan Services resolves its issues by implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System. With the help of EOS, Eileen, Vic, and their leadership team master a set of managerial tools that allow them to get traction on their business, grow the business, and deliver better results for clients.

The story of Swan Services is a fable, but the Entrepreneurial Operating System is very real and has helped thousands of businesses worldwide. A complete entrepreneurial toolkit, EOS has helped thousands of businesses get to where they want to be.

In Get a Grip, learn how Swan Services leaders learned to develop and commit to a clear vision, establish focus, build discipline, and create a healthier and more cohesive team.

With characters and situations created from collective business experiences and stories, Get a Grip is a fable that will ring true for entrepreneurial leaders the world over and guide them to get their companies on track.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your My Library section along with the audio.

©2012 Gino Wickman and Mike Paton (P)2012 Audible, Inc.
Business Development & Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship Leadership Management Management & Leadership Workplace & Organisational Behavior Workplace Culture Business Software Technology

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I found this book ready to listen to. It helped cement my understanding of the EOS System through a practical working example.

Enjoyable story to listen and learn about EOS

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After listening to Traction and Rocket Fuel, this book really brought the EOS methodology to life! Highly recommended.

Great book

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Loved the book and the way it flowed but the narrator needs to slow down and pause more. Too often sections and sentences just flowed into one another making it difficult to absorb the info before trying to process where you were.

Great book and story but the narrator

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This is a well structured book with supporting pages and well worth listening to a couple of times! Thanks

One of the best business strategy book I have read… ever

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As a Visionary, early on in EOS journey, seeing how Vic's transformation into focusing on the things he does best and allowing Eileen to grow into the Integrator role meant their business evolved into a highly productive business.

The narrative allowed for typical EOS implantation, with warts and all disclosures and underpins the value of having an EOS Implementer to guide and challenge in equal measure.

Smooth illustration of EOS In a story

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