Volume 3 · The Corner Cabin · Essay 94
EOS Level 10 Meeting
There is a certain honesty in a rule that carries a number. EOS Level 10 Meeting does not decorate itself. It states its price upfront.
The number is a fence. On one side lies intention, on the other side lies habit. Most of us live on the wrong side and write poetry about it. This rule simply asks you to climb the fence.
It is worth keeping in your pocket not because it is always right, but because it is always available. A tool you carry beats a perfect tool you left at home.
Consider the wedding caterer. Fifty dishes, three hundred guests, one small kitchen. He does not motivate his crew with speeches; he sequences the work so that nobody is ever waiting on anybody.
An organisation is only a group of people who have agreed, for now, to pull in roughly the same direction. Write it on the wall of the mind, not the wall of the house. The house already has enough instructions.