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Pinnacle Business SystemA business operating system your leadership team runs without you.

Many leadership teams work hard but lack a clear system for aligning people, strategy and execution. The Pinnacle Business System gives you one. As a Pinnacle Business Guides partner, Bill installs it with your team and coaches you until you own it.

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Length
Ongoing. Starts with a two to three day base camp
Format
On-site working sessions plus weekly coaching
Best for
Growing companies whose plan outruns their execution

01Where teams get stuck

The plan is sound. The quarter still slips.

  • Priorities multiply and nobody can say which three matter most
  • Leaders work hard in different directions
  • Meetings report on problems instead of solving them
  • The company still runs through the CEO

Your team isn’t short on effort. It’s short on a system.

02How we work

We install the system in the order it has to happen, then step back as your team takes it over.

  1. 01

    Base camp

    Two to three days with your leadership team to agree on where the company is going, the few priorities that matter this quarter and who owns each one.

  2. 02

    Quarterly summits

    One day every quarter to close the quarter honestly, set the next priorities and fix what slipped.

  3. 03

    Annual summit

    Once a year, step back to the long view: refresh the vision, pressure-test the plan and decide where the team needs stronger players.

  4. 04

    Weekly rhythm

    Coaching on the weekly meeting and scorecard between summits, until the rhythm runs without us.

Coming from EOS?

EOS helps you run your meetings. Pinnacle helps you grow your business.

If your team already has a weekly meeting and a scorecard, you’re not starting over. Pinnacle keeps the rhythm you’ve built and extends it across all five parts of the business, with a baseline score so you can see exactly where you stand.

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03What changes

What your team walks away with.

The work covers all five parts of the business together: People, Purpose, Playbooks, Performance and Profit.

Probably not a fit if

  • You want a quick fix. The system builds over quarters, not weeks.
  • You won’t be in the room for base camp and the summits. They need the CEO.
  • Your leadership team isn’t willing to be held to its own numbers.
  • A leadership team aligned on one clear direction
  • The few priorities that drive performance, each with an owner and a date
  • A weekly rhythm that turns strategy into execution
  • Accountability that holds whether the CEO is in the room or not
  • An objective baseline score across all five parts of the business, and progress you can measure

04Measured by clients

What changed, in their numbers.

  • 32%less scrap and fewer defectsVickers Engineering
  • 33%higher output after the new operating system took holdTriumvirate Environmental
  • 24%higher win rate on qualified dealsPresidio
  • 47%more service and lifecycle revenueHitachi Energy USA
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From the field

Field notes on this work.

EOS helps you run your meetings. Pinnacle helps you grow your business.

A good meeting isn't a growing business. Here's what changes when you move from EOS to Pinnacle.

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Core values are the foundation of everything that follows

Many companies talk about values. Few actually operate by them.

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Excellence chases the 1%

Most teams stop at 99 percent. The final 1 percent is where the real difference lives.

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Talk to your Pinnacle Business Guide in Minneapolis.

A working conversation with Bill, not a sales pitch. If we're not the right fit, you'll still leave with a clear next step.

  • Where your plan and your weekly reality have drifted apart
  • The one or two changes that would move the numbers fastest
  • Whether a base camp makes sense this quarter

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  • No prep needed
  • Bill takes every call himself
  • Leave with a clear next step

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  1. 1
    The review

    Thirty minutes on where your plan and your week have drifted apart. You leave with a clear next step either way.

  2. 2
    A written proposal

    If there's a fit, Bill sends a short proposal with the scope, the timing and the investment. No pressure to decide on the call.

  3. 3
    The first session

    For most clients that's a two to three day base camp with the leadership team, on dates that suit you.

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