I live in Aledo, Texas, which boasts the most successful high school football program in Texas history. Friday Night Lights isn’t fiction. It’s a real way of life here. “Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.”
The Aledo Bearcats have a district-winning streak dating back to 2007 that currently stands at 125 straight wins. Most of the kids on the team weren’t even born the last time Aledo lost a distinct game!
“Can’t lose” literally means “can’t lose.” They call us “Elite-O” Bearcats, and they’re not wrong.
But here’s the real question: What if the secret behind 125 straight wins has nothing to do with talent and everything to do with system?
How Do You Build a Dynasty?
In Aledo, it starts early. One vision. One system. One language. Each element is installed and followed by all beginning in middle school. High school coaches train middle school coaches in the system, and those coaches run it purely to help the kids build years of familiarity with these components.
By the time players hit high school, they’re not learning a new way of playing the game. They’re already fluent in it. No translation. No context-switching. No confusion.
Just full-speed execution, day after day and year after year. That’s how you stack wins for 18 years straight.
You can run your business the same way. There’s nothing stopping you.
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The Junk Drawer Approach
But most companies don’t operate like this. They cobble together a mostly unexamined junk-drawer system that sounds like:
- “Some departments use KPIs from Google.”
- “One exec uses OKRs from Andy Grove.”
- “We used to do daily standing scrums…”
- “I like Lencioni’s The Advantage.”
A junk drawer can stash some handy odds and ends, but it’s not a system. Left-handed scissors, thick rubber bands, and copies of keys are tools that each serve a purpose, but throwing them into a cabinet drawer is not making the most of their potential. It’s not creating momentum.
Yet that’s what many companies do. They read 13 business books over 5 years and apply bits and pieces, half-understood, half-executed.
Full confession? I used to do that too—before I found EOS.
Real System, Real Coach
Swap the junk drawer for something more useful. An explicit system like EOS is like an engine. Each part is interconnected to produce efficient power and then true momentum. Gino called it Traction for a reason.
But even the best engine needs a skilled operator. That’s why EOS Implementers don’t just coach the CEO. We coach the entire offense.
Imagine a coach who only serves the Quarterback. Now imagine this QB attempting to relay the game plan to the Running Backs, Tight Ends, Wide Receivers, and O-Line in the middle of a chaotic game while the competition is closing in.
And they’re doing it all using different terminology, with no clear definition of their offensive approach.
This backyard football philosophy of doing business (“Just get open and I’ll find you”) sorta works. Until the competition gets sophisticated or the players burn out.
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You’ve just imagined most companies in America.
This is why the EOS Proven Process involves teaching, facilitating, and coaching the full implementation of EOS with teams—not just the CEO Quarterbacks.
There is incredible power in installing one system with one vision, one language, and clear alignment throughout the business. The alignment starts to stack, and momentum starts to build.
After a while it feels like magic. It’s not. It’s just the downstream result of highly aligned human energy.
Inside the EOS Huddle
As EOS Implementers, we coach entire teams. These are the leaders responsible for the major functions of the business, and we help them:
- Install one offense using EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System
- Define every position on the roster with the Accountability Chart
- Buy in to the overall offensive game plan through the Vision/Traction Organizer
- Improve weekly by “watching the film” in a Level 10 Meeting (the film don’t lie)
- Stay aligned on huddle plays and priorities using Quarterly Rocks
- Build a dynasty that wins guided by the 3-Year Picture and 10-Year Target
Do you want to build your own dynasty or scrape around in a junk drawer looking for momentum?
The EOS Creed says: “You cannot build a great organization on multiple operating systems—you must choose one.”
Most entrepreneurs and owners are starting to come to the consensus that EOS is that system.
So come run on EOS. Clear eyes. Full heart. Can’t lose.
Choose Your System. Build Your Dynasty.
Most leaders don’t fail for lack of effort. They fail because they never picked one system and ran it right, all the way through. EOS gives you the clarity, structure, and alignment to stop fumbling with one-off tools and start winning with intention.
It works. But only if you run the play.
Ready to install one system, one vision, and one language followed by all? Then it’s time to get a coach. Start building your dynasty today.
Find your Implementer and let’s get to work, together..
