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EOS Level 10 Meeting

The weekly leadership meeting of the Entrepreneurial Operating System, with a fixed 90-minute agenda. Short reporting segments surface problems quickly so most of the time goes to solving the top issues through Identify-Discuss-Solve.

7 phasesSession Flow
When to Use This Framework

When your sessions feel disjointed or participants lose focus

Your meetings or sessions need better pacing, clearer transitions, or more engaging sequences to keep participants engaged.

Weekly leadership or management team meetings in small and mid-sized companies; teams that report a lot but solve little.

The 7 Steps
Follow this sequence to apply EOS Level 10 Meeting
1

Segue

Each person shares a piece of personal and professional good news to switch from working in the business to working on it.

2

Scorecard

Go through the weekly measurables: each one is on track or off track. Off-track numbers go to the issues list without discussion.

3

Rock Review

Each owner says whether their quarterly priorities (Rocks) are on or off track. Off-track Rocks become issues.

4

Customer & Employee Headlines

One-line news about customers and staff, good or bad. Anything that needs work drops to the issues list.

5

To-Do List

Check last week's seven-day action items: done or not done.

6

IDS

The bulk of the meeting. Pick the most important issues and Identify the real problem, Discuss it, and Solve it, one at a time.

7

Conclude

Recap new to-dos, agree what gets communicated to others, and each person rates the meeting from 1 to 10.

What You'll Achieve

Creates natural rhythm and momentum that keeps energy high throughout.

Use the seven sections as the agenda blocks of a weekly leadership or management team meeting, with about 60 of the 90 minutes reserved for IDS. Keep the same agenda every week.

Practical Tips
How to get the most out of this framework
  • 1
    Vary the pace between high and low energy activities
  • 2
    Use clear transitions between sections
  • 3
    Build complexity gradually throughout
  • 4
    End with actionable takeaways
Best For
  • Leadership team meetings
  • Weekly management meetings
  • Small and mid-sized businesses
  • Teams running on quarterly priorities
Key Principles
  • Same day, same time, same agenda every week
  • Report briefly, solve deeply
  • Off-track items drop straight to the issues list
  • Solve the most important issue first
  • Rate every meeting and aim for 8 or higher
Watch Out For
  • Level 10 Meeting is a trademark of EOS Worldwide; describe it, do not brand materials as official EOS
  • Assumes a scorecard and quarterly Rocks already exist
  • Rigid format; teams outside the EOS system may need to adapt the scorecard and Rock sections
Related Frameworks
Other Session Flow frameworks you might find useful
Derby & Larsen's Five Stages of a RetrospectiveA five-stage arc for team retrospectives from Esther Derby and Diana Larsen's book Agile Retrospectives. It works as a container: any retro activity, such as a timeline or a sailboat, slots into one of the stages, so the meeting moves from data to insight to commitment instead of stopping at venting.
Daily Scrum (Scrum Guide)The Daily Scrum is the Scrum Guide's 15-minute daily event in which the Developers inspect progress toward the Sprint Goal and adapt their plan. The 2020 Guide no longer prescribes questions; the team picks any structure as long as it focuses on the goal and ends in a plan for the day.
Holacracy Tactical MeetingThe operational meeting of Holacracy, built to process a lot of practical issues fast. A quick data-sharing preamble is followed by an agenda that the group builds on the spot and triages item by item, each ending in a concrete next action.