Leadership: Hiring & recruitment

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Ethical AI use in recruiting: four principles to avoid discrimination

HR Party of One September 9, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 9
AI strategy & adoption 7
  • AI doesn't remove hiring bias — it makes bias invisible and unchallengeable
  • Ranking candidates with AI automates discrimination, even unintentionally
  • Amazon's AI tool penalised women's college graduates using historical data

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When to replace your COO and how to make the transition work

Cameron Herold August 26, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 9
Management 7
Long-term planning 5
  • Most COOs can only survive two revenue doublings before hitting their ceiling
  • Cultural fit matters more than credentials when hiring a replacement
  • Trust the doubt: when the relationship no longer feels right, it isn't

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How to hire A-players: training, testing, and cultural fit

Cameron Herold August 11, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 9
Culture building 6
  • Interviewing is a trainable skill most leaders have never actually practised.
  • Ask candidates to show evidence, not explain systems — knowing isn't doing.
  • Bring external experts to test technical skill; you own the culture interview.

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Hire accountable people instead of managing accountability

Cameron Herold August 9, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 9
Delegation 7
Processes & SOPs 5
  • Accountability is a hiring problem, not a management problem
  • Delegate everything except your genius — 90% of your to-do list can go
  • Fix root causes: one company cut a four-person team to one by solving seven problems

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Hiring fast learners and adaptable people for fast-growing companies

Cameron Herold July 15, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 9
Identity & self-belief 6
  • Roles change every 3–6 months — hire people who adapt, not specialists
  • Gen Z expects 6–18 month tenures; that's rational, not a red flag
  • Living globally and entering high-performer rooms beats formal education

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Three pre-onboarding red flags that can derail a new hire

HR Party of One July 15, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 9
Processes & SOPs 6
  • The costliest hire excels brilliantly at the wrong version of the job.
  • Inconsistent social media screening exposes employers to legal liability.
  • Rescinding an offer is sometimes right — but documentation is non-negotiable.

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When to hire a COO and how to integrate one effectively

Cameron Herold July 5, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 9
Outsourcing & delegation 6
Business operating systems 5
  • Founders stuck in operations miss the rainmaking that grows the business
  • A $250–350K COO can deliver a 5–10x return by freeing founder energy
  • Abdication instead of delegation is what makes COO hires fail

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How to hire the right COO for your company's current stage

Cameron Herold July 3, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 9
Vision & mission 6
Management 5
  • The COO who got you to $100M will likely fail at $1B.
  • Start with an activity inventory of everything you avoid or suck at.
  • Knowing how to do something is not the same as having done it.

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Why "perfect" sales hires fail and how to build a context-fit hiring model

The Science of Scaling June 27, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 10
Sales systems & CRM 6
  • Industry experience is a poor hiring filter; selling skills predict success.
  • Coachability, not curiosity or intelligence, correlated most with top performance at HubSpot.
  • Role plays reveal coachability; progressive improvement across interviews is the key signal.

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How to build a $10M leadership team: five roles in order

Ryan Deiss June 23, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 9
Processes & SOPs 6
  • Why hiring one COO unicorn almost never works for founders
  • Demand vs. supply constraint determines which role to hire first
  • A controller beats a bookkeeper or CFO at the $1–10M stage

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How to hire the right COO for your business

Cameron Herold June 16, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 10
Delegation 6
  • Your weaknesses define the COO role before anything else.
  • Good COOs aren't job-hunting — you have to poach them.
  • CEO and COO belong at the bottom of the org chart, not the top.

Management

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What a COO actually does and how to hire the right one

Cameron Herold June 14, 2025


Management 9
Processes & SOPs 6
Hiring & recruitment 5
  • COO fit with the CEO matters more than any specific skill set.
  • Grow people's capacity instead of fixing problems directly.
  • The COO toggles between strategic oversight and day-to-day execution.

Culture building

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How First Form built a billion-dollar culture without investors

Dan Martell June 10, 2025


Culture building 10
Processes & SOPs 7
Hiring & recruitment 6
  • Your standards are not what you say — they are what you accept.
  • Billion-dollar companies train people; tell-check-next loops create bottlenecks.
  • Expanding people's physical reference point is the fastest way to raise ambition.

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How to hire A players using structured interviews and reference checks

Cameron Herold June 9, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 10
  • Only hire candidates scoring 4 or 5 on a structured 1–5 scale
  • The threat of reference check exposes C players before any offer
  • Video submissions and group interviews filter culture fit before resumes

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How to build a sales compensation plan that matches your growth stage

The Science of Scaling May 22, 2025


Hiring & recruitment 9
Sales systems & CRM 8
Unit economics 7
  • At product-market fit, skip commissions — pay equity instead
  • Split commission: half on signature, half on retention indicator
  • Promotion tiers inside sales roles cut average tenure from 2 to 6 years

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