EOS Life is written by EOS founder, Gino Wickman.
Gino has advanced to working in his "top left quadrant" which includes writing, of which this book is his latest as of October 2021.
There are aspects of this book which some people will find engaging and encouraging -- including a number of "success stories" but I found a bit boring (sorry). If you're pretty well steeped in EOS content then you may choose to do as I did and "skip past" those segments because they feel a bit like an EOS commercial.
Setting aside my somewhat-quick-to-be-skeptical (cynical?) perspectives, here are my personal take-a-aways:
- Gino is a man obsessed with EOS. That focus has yielded a tremendous amount of fruit in his life and the lives of so many others. So, well done on this point, Gino. Something we can all learn from!
- Gino discusses the idea of a "work container" -- essentially an upper limit on how much of our time our work can/should fill. This will look different for different people. It might be 40 weeks a year, or 45 (or less!) hours per week, or 4 days per week, etc. I like this concept - a lot. Liking it and implementing it of course are different! In some meaningful ways, this is an application of Eli Goldratt's Theory of Constraints (ToC) or even the not-so-subtle theme behind the cover of Mike Michalowicz' Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. If we have too much of a resource (say time or money or toilet paper), we tend to use it all. If we had less time (or money or ....) with which to work, we just might be able to get the majority of the "important stuff" completed with far less resources than we ever imagined requiring. Thank you Gino for a great ToC example.