by Gino Wickman
Wickman presents the Entrepreneurial Operating System, a framework for running a business with clarity and discipline. It boils leadership down to six key components: vision, people, data, issues, process, and traction.
In this collection, Traction references 2 other books and is cited by 2 other books.
It draws on The E-Myth Revisited and Good to Great.
It’s picked up by Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist and Secrets of Sand Hill Road: Venture Capital and How to Get It.
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Wickman references Gerber's E-Myth on 80% failure statistic.
Wickman references Collins's Good to Great on right people.
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Parallels Wickman's Traction on operating cadence, arguing that the governance rhythms VCs impose (board meetings, reporting) are compatible with EOS-style execution frameworks
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Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalistby Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
Echoes Wickman's Traction on the importance of a disciplined operating cadence, mapping it to the board reporting and KPI discipline VCs expect post-investment
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