Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business

by Gino Wickman, Mark C. Winters

Overview

Discover the vital relationship that will take your company from "What's next?" to "We have liftoff!"

Visionaries have groundbreaking ideas. Integrators make those ideas a reality. This explosive combination is the key to getting everything you want out of your business. It worked for Disney. It worked for McDonald's. It worked for Ford. It can work for you.

From the author of the bestselling Traction, Rocket Fuel details the integral roles of the Visionary and Integrator and explains how an effective relationship between the two can help your business thrive. Offering advice to help Visionary-minded and Integrator-minded individuals find one another, Rocket Fuel also features assessments so you're able to determine whether you're a Visionary or an Integrator.

Without an Integrator, a Visionary is far less likely to succeed long-term ,and realize the company's ultimate goals—likewise, with no Visionary, an Integrator can't rise to his or her full potential. When these two people come together to share their natural talents and innate skill sets, it's like rocket fuel—they have the power to reach new heights for virtually any company or organization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781942952312
Publisher:	BenBella Books, Inc.
Publication date:	04/12/2016
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	83,894
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Gino Wickman, bestselling author of Traction, has a passion for helping people get what they want from their businesses. To fulfill that passion, he created the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS), which helps leaders run better businesses, get better control, have better life balance, and gain more traction—with the entire organization advancing together as a cohesive team. Wickman is the founder of EOS Worldwide, a growing organization of successful entrepreneurs collaborating as certified EOS Implementers to help people experience all the organizational and personal benefits of implementing EOS. He also delivers workshops and keynote addresses.

Thomas J. Bouwer has a passion for helping entrepreneurs and their leadership teams simplify, clarify and achieve their vision. In addition to starting and running three of his own companies in Turkey, Tom has worked with a diverse range of companies from start-ups to Fortune 50 companies. His nearly three decades of global management and consulting experience in multiple industries help him quickly identify and solve chronic issues that keep a company from achieving optimal success. As a teacher, facilitator and coach, Tom spends most of his time as a Certified EOS© Implementer—helping leadership teams implement EOS in their companies. He earned his B.A. from Hope College and MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. When not delivering EOS workshops or keynote addresses, Tom is most likely walking his dogs or hiking in the mountains.

Table of Contents

Introduction xi

Part 1 The Context

Chapter 1 The Visionary 3

Chapter 2 The Integrator 27

Chapter 3 The Relationship 49

Part 2 The How-To's

Chapter 4 The Accountability Chart 71

Chapter 5 The 5 Rules 97

Chapter 6 Finding Each Other 111

Chapter 7 Patience 135

Bonus Chapter

Bonus: The Icing on the Cake-5 Tools 151

Further Resources 181

Acknowledgments 183

About The Authors 189

Editorial Reviews

"Rocket Fuel is a powerful model for freeing up entrepreneurial visionaries to do what they do best. Gino and Mark provide a practical gameplan for building an organization that perfectly combines vision and integration."
—Dan Sullivan, President and Founder of Strategic Coach®

"In this brilliant book, Gino Wickman and Mark C. Winters explain the vital importance of having both a visionary and an integrator—and show how that relationship can provide the 'rocket fuel' your company needs to achieve its full potential."
—Bo Burlingham, Editor-at-Large of Inc. magazine and author of Small Giants and Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top

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