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# Company Operating System The operating system is the collection of tools, rhythms, and agreements that determine how the company functions. Every company has one -- most just do not know what it is. Making it explicit makes it improvable. ## Keywords operating system, EOS, Entrepreneurial Operating System, Scaling Up, Rockefeller Habits, OKR, Holacracy, L10 meeting, rocks, scorecard, accountability chart, issues list, IDS, meeting pulse, quarterly planning, weekly scorecard, management framework, company rhythm, traction, annual planning, communication cadence --- ## Operating System Selection ### Decision Tree ``` START: "Which operating system?" | v [Company size?] | +-- 10-50 people | | | v | [Is the founder operational or visionary?] | | | +-- Operational --> EOS / Traction (structured, simple) | +-- Visionary --> Scaling Up (ambitious, strategy-heavy) | +-- 50-200 people | | | v | [Engineering-led or sales-led?] | | | +-- Engineering-led --> OKR-native (hypothesis-driven) | +-- Sales-led --> Scaling Up or EOS (execution-focused) | +-- 200+ people | | | v | [High autonomy or high alignment needed?] | | | +-- High autonomy --> Holacracy (only if patient) | +-- High alignment --> Custom hybrid (best of EOS + OKR) | +-- Not sure --> Start with EOS. It is the simplest to implement. ``` ### Framework Comparison Matrix | Feature | EOS | Scaling Up