Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business

In the entrepreneurial world there are three popular books that outline a full suite of strategies and techniques to efficiently run a company. Two of them have been discussed here previously: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits / Scaling Up and The Advantage (including the Six Critical Questions). Another, popular how-to startup book is Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business.

Here are the six key components from Traction that make up the Entrepreneurial Operating System:

• Vision – Do they see what you are saying?
  • Answering the eight questions
  • Shared by all
• People – Surround yourself with good people
  • Right people
  • Right seats
• Data – Safety in numbers
  • Scorecard
  • Measurables
• Issues – Decide!
  • The issues list
  • The issues solving track
• Process – Finding your way
  • Documenting your core processes
  • Followed by all
• Traction – From luftmensch to action!
  • Rocks
  • Meeting pulse

Entrepreneurs looking to run a more productive startup would do well to read the book Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business and implement the ideas.

What else? What are some more thoughts on the book Traction?