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Articles, stories, and lessons from the session room

Diagram showing Company Rocks splitting two ways, down to one leader's individual rocks and out to the whole company at the State of the Company meeting.

August 12, 2026·EOS, Leadership

Whose Rock Is It? Company, Department, and Individual Rocks in EOS

Company Rock or Individual Rock? It's the EOS rocks question that stops a session room cold every quarter, and the answer is simpler than teams expect.

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August 4, 2026·EOS, Leadership

Rock Mastery: Run Your Rocks Before They Run You

It's day 45, your Rock is untouched, and every calendar in the building is full. A decade of hard lessons on running quarterly Rocks before they run you.

A line chart, Running on EOS: The Emotional Journey, tracing a founder's emotions from ego at month zero down through overwhelm at month six and back up to running the business by month twenty four.

July 28, 2026·EOS, Entrepreneurship

The Emotional Journey of Running on EOS

The highs, the lows, and the breakthroughs of the first two years running on EOS, and why the overwhelm you are feeling right now is exactly the point.

Two kids at a dining room wall, one placing a sticker on a World Cup bracket poster, the other finding a country on a world map

July 21, 2026·Lagniappe

World Cup Geography

A bracket, a map, and a box of pins. How our family turned the World Cup into the best geography lesson of the year.

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June 26, 2026·Leadership, Entrepreneurship, EOS

Leadership Team Conflict

If you've got unspoken frustration with your co-founder, your CMO, or another leader on your team, you're not alone, and you're not stuck with it.

Craig Ceccanti and his kids in front of the F-14 Tomcat flown in the original Top Gun

June 15, 2026·EOS, Leadership

"Maverick, reengage!"

Sometimes the fastest way through is to stop. What EOS calls a Clarity Break, and why the leaders who resist it need it most.

Craig Ceccanti and his Integrator Charles Willis at an EOS conference

May 19, 2026·Entrepreneurship, EOS, Leadership

Part 3 - From Startup to Company: The Journey Every Founder has to Take

The magic did not disappear when we built the machine. It transformed. And the second version was better.

Illustration of the entrepreneurial journey as an analogy of changing sports

May 11, 2026·Entrepreneurship, EOS, Leadership

Part 2 - From Startup to Company: The Journey Every Founder has to Take

There is a moment in every founder's journey when the skills that got you here start working against you. Here is how to see it coming.

Graphic mapping the four stages of the tech startup journey

April 27, 2026·Entrepreneurship, EOS, Leadership

Part 1 - From Startup to Company: The Journey Every Founder has to Take

Every founder hits a moment when the thing they built starts running them instead of the other way around. This is the map I wish someone had handed me.

April 7, 2026·EOS, Leadership

Are You Really Solving Issues?

Most teams talk through issues, but few truly solve them at the root. This article explores why the EOS Issues Component is the key to real traction.

September 13, 2025·Lagniappe, Leadership

Chess for Kids

What started as a parenting trick turned into a family tradition, and a pretty good teacher of patience, ownership, and leadership.

August 19, 2025·EOS, Lagniappe

The Book That Changed My Life

Traction, the book that changed my life, and why I'm excited to join EOS Worldwide as a Professional EOS Implementer to pay it forward.

Craig Ceccanti early in his consulting career

July 14, 2025·Leadership, Lagniappe

25 Years in Client Service

A walk around the office, a building in the distance, and 22 years of consulting, coaching, and serving clients.