ROCKS (Chapter 5 — "What Is Most Important Right Now?")
The title of Chapter 5 asks this question, which is also what Rocks are designed to answer for every employee.
What is "What Is Most Important Right Now?"
The official name EOS gives to the structured weekly team meeting.
What is the Level 10 Meeting (L10)?
The title of Chapter 7 — "What's My Number?" — refers to this EOS tool that tracks weekly performance metrics.
What is a scorecard?
This is the word EOS uses instead of "org chart" — it shows who is responsible for what in the company.
What is accountability chart?
This is our company's Visionary — the big-picture thinker and idea generator.
Who is Aaron Wilcox?
Rocks are the most important goals that must be completed within this specific number of days.
What is 90 days? (quarterly)
The standard length of every Level 10 Meeting.
What is 90 minutes?
A company-level Scorecard contains this many key weekly numbers.
What is 5-15?
A Rock is considered this when a team member has completed it or is on schedule by the weekly check-in.
What is "on track"?
This is our company's Integrator — the person who drives execution and holds the leadership team accountable.
Who is Bill Hall?
Each quarter, an individual employee should set this many Rocks through discussion with their manager.
What is 1 to 3?
EOS calls the practice of holding meetings on a consistent weekly schedule this two-word term.
What is the meeting pulse?
A department-level Scorecard should contain this many metrics, reviewed weekly.
What is 3-5?
This EOS term describes the consistent rhythm of holding weekly meetings on the same day and time every week.
What is the meeting pulse?
To do's are typically due within this time frame?
At the company level, this is the range of Rocks set each quarter.
What is 3 to 7?
The three letters standing for the process used in L10 meetings to work through issues: Identify, Discuss, Solve.
What is IDS?
The term for the specific metric or data point an individual employee is personally accountable for on the Scorecard.
What is a Measurable?
Scorecards remove this from performance conversations — meaning results are based on numbers, not opinions or feelings.
What is subjectivity?
This 5 minute section allows anyone to bring up good or bad news about customers, employees, or both?
What is people headlines?
Rocks break down this larger planning tool's goals — the one that covers the next 12 months — into 90-day priorities.
What is the 1-Year Plan?
Having a weekly meeting pulse is specifically designed to reduce this — the habit of delaying tasks until right before a deadline.
What is procrastination?
EOS prefers Measurables to be this type of indicator — one that predicts future results rather than reporting past ones.
What is a leading indicator?
In EOS, this is the difference between a Measurable and a Rock — one is tracked weekly on a Scorecard, the other is a 90-day priority project.
What is a Measurable is an ongoing weekly metric, while a Rock is a quarterly goal?
This is the "term" used for getting off the subject and going down rabbit holes?
What is a tangent?