Getting your business where you want it to be has never been easier. Using what's called an Entrepreneurial Operating System, one can have protocols in place for every situation to make sure they make the most out of their results. Ben Snyder, principal of Bizexe, chats with Bob Roark. Together, they go into some of the best techniques to ensure maximization of your results, the results you're looking for. Learn how to work with this Entrepreneurial Operating System today!
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Bob, thank you. I appreciate it.
We were chatting before the show. We have lots of things in common. The one fun fact that people may not know about you is you were a professional baseball player at one time in Houston Astros if I remember it correctly?
Yeah, back in the early '80s.
With a math degree.
Yeah. I was the smart guy in the locker room.
Tell us a little bit about your business and who you serve.
First of all, if the people I serve are people who have businesses from $5 to $50 million or if you want to go with employee size 10 to 200. They're usually the operator owners, a lot of family businesses too. Those are the people that I serve. In terms of what I do is I help them basically get what they want out of their business. Every entrepreneur has something they want out of the business, whether it be financial security or they want more time with their family. Ultimately when I work together, I help them get what they want.
Rolling the clock back a bit, EOS, Entrepreneurial Operating System is an outgrowth of a fairly well-noted author that's widely respected in the business arena.
Gino Wickman is the person who wrote the book Traction back in 2007, and since then obviously, it's become quite popular here in the States, I would say as a whole. It's starting to move outside into the international world.
I've actually read Traction. I've interviewed some people that use Traction and there's a lot of complimentary dialogue that goes off on the concepts and principles that are contained in that book. The Entrepreneurial Operating System, as I understand it, incorporate some of that into a systematic process.
These are tools that have been around a long time. Some of them, people recognize but the power of it is when it's brought together in a complete system where the tools interact with one another and support one another.
When you talk to a business owner that's functioning in the business without EOS, what do you typically hear from the business owner?
The biggest part is their lack of control. They're constantly working in the business, firefighting, resolving conflicts with customers. As a whole, what they're struggling with is basically not being able to have control of it, not having a vision for where they want to go. Their employees or their customers, their interactions are full of strife. I...