Issues is part of the Traction Library, the book that takes one of EOS®’s six components (vision, traction, people, process, issues, data) and builds a full playbook around it: how to identify, discuss, and actually solve issues.
The formula is simple:
- One issues list. One spot (doc, Ninety.io, whatever) where every problem and idea lands. The tool doesn’t matter.
- A regular cadence. Meet consistently.
- Identify, discuss, solve. One issue at a time. Top three, prioritized.
Here’s where most teams fail: they’re great at discussing and terrible at deciding. I’ve watched brilliant people talk for 30 minutes and walk away having agreed to nothing. This book fixes that.
Gino Wickman’s foreword alone is worth it. He lays out what great leadership teams actually have in common, and it’s not complicated.
Not just for leadership teams, either. If you’re the one person willing to ask “What are we committing to here?”, this is for you too.
