Posts by Brian Alwin
This One Thing Can Change Your Company’s Future
Not unlike every other business owner, on my desk is a black three-ring binder. This binder contains leadership team meeting minutes dating back to 2006, the year my wife and my moving company was started. In fifteen years doing business, I can only find a record of fourteen meetings. Our moving company is not large,…
Read MoreHow is Improving Your Business Like Having Surgery?
In my last blog, Taking My Own Medicine, I wrote about implementing the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) into one of my wife’s and my businesses. When a business owner takes on the challenge of tearing down and re-building an entire business operating system, they do so with optimism. They foresee the changes will have an…
Read MoreTaking My Own Medicine
I’ve always been skeptical of new business operating philosophies. This skepticism was developed over time – through system implementations dating back to the late 1980’s. First it was W. E. Deming’s Total Quality Management (TQM), then came Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma and so on. ISO-9000 was the first international standard I was a student of…
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