Process!: How Discipline and Consistency Will Set You and Your Business Free

by Mike Paton, Lisa González

This deep-dive into the revolutionary EOS method to strengthen a company’s process component will help leaders at all companies—from early stage startups to established corporations—run better businesses and live better lives.

Part of the TRACTION Library, Process! proves that a high-level, 20/80 approach to getting your core processes “followed by all” will help
Get consistently exceptional results Improve and innovate as necessary Free yourself to live your ideal life
If you own, run, or lead in a fast-moving business, you’re likely driven by passion and a desire to be free. Many leaders mistakenly believe instilling rigor and discipline for process throughout your organizations will inhibit freedom.

They couldn’t be more wrong.

It’s when you’re stuck in the day-to-day, putting out fires and cleaning up messes, that passion turns to frustration. Freedom seems somewhere between elusive and impossible. The secret to getting unstuck is process. This inspiring, informative field guide will prove it’s possible to establish rigor and discipline for process while also increasing creativity, flexibility, and innovation.

Process! will help you identify a handful of core processes that make your business uniquely valuable. You’ll learn how to document and simplify the major steps in those processes so they can be done the right and best way, every time. Finally, you’ll execute a simple, step-by-step plan that is helping more than 10,000 entrepreneurs around the world consistently get the results they want.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 27, 2022

About the author

Mike Paton has spent a lifetime learning from and sharing with entrepreneurs. The product of an entrepreneurial household, Paton cut his teeth in banking before running (or helping run) four small, growing companies. For the last eight years, he's been helping entrepreneurs clarify, simplify and achieve their vision by mastering the The Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS).

Paton discovered EOS while trying to run a $7 million company in Minneapolis. Drawn to its simplicity and usefulness, he quickly became a passionate advocate of the system and leader of a vibrant and growing community of professional EOS Implementers, clients and fans. In 2015 Paton transitioned into the roll of Visionary at EOS Worldwide.

An award-winning speaker and best-selling author (Get A Grip: An Entrepreneurial Fable - with EOS creator Gino Wickman), Paton has conducted more than 1,000 full-day EOS sessions with leadership teams of more than 100 companies. He's also helped thousands more business leaders at dynamic, value-packed keynote talks and in-depth interactive workshops. Whatever the venue and format, Paton attracts large audiences, receives consistently high ratings and introduces a complete set of simple concepts and practical tools that help leaders "Get A Grip" on their business.

Paton lives in Minneapolis with his wife Kate and his sons Henry and Charlie. His older son Jon lives and works in Springfield, IL.

Reviews

[Jeremy Schmucker · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not worth reading if you’ve read traction more than once. Repetitive information.

[Hana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Another book for work book club and another book I feel "meh" about. I LOVE the idea of discipline and consistency. However this book will provide the bare basics about why process is important, documenting it, and implementing it for the business. I appreciate the encouragement of owning the project and committing to the execution and other little bits of knowledge.