EOS® Implementer in Santa Monica

Working from Santa Monica

Santa Monica is where I work from. When a Westside team wants to get out of its own building for a session, this is where it comes, and that matters more than it sounds. A leadership team doing a Focus Day in its own conference room gets pulled into email at every break. A different address is a small forcing function, and the conversation gets better for it.

One Westside, several economies

The Westside is not one economy. Santa Monica and Venice have the technology and media companies that grew up here over the last twenty years. Century City is law firms, wealth managers and finance. Beverly Hills adds real estate, private practices and family-held businesses. Culver City has turned into a production and tech town. West Los Angeles fills the gaps with professional firms that chose the area for the people rather than the rent.

What they share is the founder-led company of twenty to a hundred and fifty people whose leadership team grew faster than its habits. Talented people, expensive people, and a stack of decisions still waiting on one person.

The cost of unclear seats

The problem I see most on the Westside is cost. Salaries and rent here make every seat expensive, so a leadership team that is fuzzy about who owns what burns money faster than it would almost anywhere else. Two senior people half-owning marketing is a luxury most companies here cannot afford.

EOS goes at that first. The Accountability Chart names one owner for each function. Rocks give each leader three to seven priorities for the quarter, and nothing more. The Scorecard puts the numbers in front of the team every week, before the monthly financials can surprise anyone. The weekly Level 10 Meeting gets issues solved rather than discussed, which is where the expensive time comes back.

Close to the whole Westside

From Beverly Hills or Century City the drive is short outside rush hour, and Culver City, West Los Angeles and Venice are closer still. I also come to your office if that keeps the team together. A team that would rather not travel at all can start at its own office and move the annual to Santa Monica later. The weekly meeting never needs me in the room at all.

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