Leadership: Hiring & recruitment

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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 9
Management 8
Outsourcing & delegation 5
  • 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 9
Management 7
Processes & SOPs 6
  • 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 9
Management 8
Processes & SOPs 7
  • 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.

Hiring & recruitment

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How to hire, build trust with, and replace your COO

Cameron Herold March 2, 2023


Hiring & recruitment 9
Management 8
Outsourcing & delegation 5
  • 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 9
Work-life balance 8
Delegation 6
  • 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

Management

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How Keith Yandell leads cross-functional teams with empathy at DoorDash

Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth February 9, 2023


Management 9
Hiring & recruitment 8
Case studies 7
  • 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 9
Processes & SOPs 6
Branding 5
  • 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.

Hiring & recruitment

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How to hire and leverage a second in command as a founder

Cameron Herold February 6, 2023


Hiring & recruitment 10
Outsourcing & delegation 8
Long-term planning 5
  • 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 9
Outsourcing & delegation 7
  • 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.

Management

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Growing your people as the primary lever for scaling a business

Cameron Herold January 26, 2023


Management 9
Hiring & recruitment 6
Processes & SOPs 5
  • 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.

Culture building

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Netflix's Reed Hastings on building a high-performance culture

Masters of Scale January 18, 2023


Culture building 9
Hiring & recruitment 7
Vision & mission 5
  • 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

Culture building

Podcast

J.J. Abrams on building conditions for creative magic

Masters of Scale January 17, 2023


Culture building 9
Hiring & recruitment 7
Processes & SOPs 6
  • 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 9
Compliance & regulation 5
Processes & SOPs 5
  • 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.

Hiring & recruitment

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Defining the COO role and operations in a growing company

Cameron Herold December 22, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 7
Processes & SOPs 6
Business operating systems 5
  • 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

Hiring & recruitment

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Four strategies for building a high-performance team

Dan Martell December 19, 2022


Hiring & recruitment 9
Delegation 8
Identity & self-belief 5
  • 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

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