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When Your Best Performer Is Toxic
On The Modern Founder & CEO Podcast, workplace-culture expert Catherine Mattice unpacked why toxic behavior so often hides behind high performance — and what it quietly costs you. Here's what it means for any leader running on EOS, where Right Person, Right Seat is supposed to prevent exactly this.
EOS Works. Self-Implementation Doesn't.
I've had the same conversation three times this month. A founder reads Traction, tries to implement EOS themselves, and it quietly drifts. Here is why.
Most Founders Are Too Busy to Run Their Business Well
You built something real. And somewhere along the way, you stopped working on the business and started working in it full-time. Here is the one EOS concept that changes how your leadership team shows up.
AI Is Reshaping EOS — Here's What Founders Running on the System Need to Know in 2026
EOS hasn't changed. But how the smartest founders are using it has. AI is now a legitimate accelerator inside the Entrepreneurial Operating System — if you know where to plug it in. Certified EOS Implementer Jon Kludt breaks down what's working, what's not, and where the real leverage is in 2026.
They're Saying EOS Is Outdated. They're Missing the Point.
More and more people are calling EOS outdated, rigid, or irrelevant in the age of AI. As a Certified EOS Implementer who sits across from founders every week, here is what those takes get wrong.