Scaling Up's advanced tools are unnecessary for companies under 50 employees
Michael Girdley · How to Use EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) to Run & Scale Your Business · Nov 27, 2023 · at 4:20
Serial entrepreneur Michael Girdley compares business operating frameworks like Scaling Up and EOS for early-stage companies.
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“There's stuff that scaling up, for example, does that is bigger and badder than what's in EOS, but a lot of times when you're, like, under 50 people, like, that stuff doesn't really matter much, so that's why I spend a lot of time talking about EOS.”
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