Leadership: Hiring & recruitment
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How to find, hire, and work with a COO as your second in command
Cameron Herold
March 10, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
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Management
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Outsourcing & delegation
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- The right COO is stage-specific — the 0–100M hire is wrong for 100M–500M.
- CEO–COO works best as a business marriage, not a reporting line.
- School trains you to fix weaknesses; entrepreneurship demands you delegate them.
Hiring & recruitment
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Why every CEO needs a trusted second in command
Cameron Herold
March 7, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
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Management
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Processes & SOPs
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- Hire a COO at 100 staff — an EA fills the gap before that
- The right COO complements your weaknesses, not your strengths
- Employee net promoter score beats every other company metric
Hiring & recruitment
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How to drive a million blog visitors a month: a step-by-step system
Neil Patel
March 4, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
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Management
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Processes & SOPs
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- Deleting and merging old pages often beats publishing new content.
- Pitch sites linking to multiple competitors — they'll likely link to you too.
- Push notifications get subscribers without asking for personal information.
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How to hire, build trust with, and replace your COO
Cameron Herold
March 2, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
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Management
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Outsourcing & delegation
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- Hire a COO who thrives in every area you don't.
- COOs are stage-specific — the right hire for $2M is wrong at $100M.
- Before any senior operator, hire an executive assistant first.
Hiring & recruitment
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Hiring a second in command to build a life, not just a business
Cameron Herold
February 23, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
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Work-life balance
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Delegation
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- Your COO should give you a life, not just run operations
- Hire for yin-yang fit to your DNA, not past job titles
- Delegating 80% of your week can double your business
How Keith Yandell leads cross-functional teams with empathy at DoorDash
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
February 9, 2023
Management
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Hiring & recruitment
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Case studies
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- Why leading teams outside your expertise drives 10x outcomes
- Helping reports find other jobs makes them more likely to stay
- Steelmanning the other side is the fastest path to hard decisions
Hiring & recruitment
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How to conduct effective DEI outreach in recruitment
HR Party of One
February 9, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
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Processes & SOPs
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Branding
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- A diversity statement means nothing without structural outreach behind it.
- 70% of candidates abandon applications that take more than 15 minutes.
- Go beyond job boards: HBCUs, libraries, and community orgs reach missed talent.
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How to hire and leverage a second in command as a founder
Cameron Herold
February 6, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
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Outsourcing & delegation
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Long-term planning
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- Your first hire should be an EA, not a COO
- Title must match compensation — a real COO earns $300k+
- Map every task by unique ability to know what to offload
Hiring & recruitment
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10 steps to prepare for hiring a virtual assistant
Layla at ProcessDriven
January 27, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
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Outsourcing & delegation
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- Use paid test projects to vet VAs before committing to a contract.
- Back-office tasks don't make money — how you use freed time does.
- Write a termination letter before you need one, while still objective.
Growing your people as the primary lever for scaling a business
Cameron Herold
January 26, 2023
Management
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Hiring & recruitment
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Processes & SOPs
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- Train managers in 12 core leadership skills — or stay stuck herding cats.
- Confidence and skill must grow together; neglecting either stalls both.
- Hire accountable people; accountability cannot be installed after the fact.
Netflix's Reed Hastings on building a high-performance culture
Masters of Scale
January 18, 2023
Culture building
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Hiring & recruitment
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Vision & mission
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- Dummy-proofing systems selects for dummies — Pure Software proved it
- The keeper test: ask your manager how hard they'd fight to keep you
- Why Netflix calls itself a sports team, not a family
J.J. Abrams on building conditions for creative magic
Masters of Scale
January 17, 2023
Culture building
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Hiring & recruitment
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Processes & SOPs
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- You can't schedule inspiration, but you can engineer the conditions for it.
- Lost's 12-week miracle was survivor bias — don't recreate the pressure.
- Structure and HR aren't creativity killers — they're what earns team trust.
Hiring & recruitment
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Five underrepresented candidate groups to improve hiring and retention
HR Party of One
January 5, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
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Compliance & regulation
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Processes & SOPs
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- Boomerang employees onboard faster and return with new teachable skills.
- Hiring certain veterans unlocks the Work Opportunity Tax Credit.
- 70 million Americans have criminal records — most are reliable, retention-strong hires.
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Defining the COO role and operations in a growing company
Cameron Herold
December 22, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
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Processes & SOPs
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Business operating systems
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- Handing out C-suite titles too early creates salary creep and kills career goals
- The COO exists to cover every gap the CEO is weak at or dislikes
- Focus on revenue growth over cost-cutting — every problem is solvable with money
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Four strategies for building a high-performance team
Dan Martell
December 19, 2022
Hiring & recruitment
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Delegation
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Identity & self-belief
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- Not training people caps them at exactly the information you give
- Hire people whose personal 10-year vision matches what you need built
- Your team's growth ceiling is set by your own leadership growth