Leadership: Management
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Understanding the CEO-COO communication gap
Cameron Herold
July 16, 2023
Communication
9
Management
5
- Why a COO asking questions feels like conflict — but isn't
- Entrepreneurial CEOs and COOs have opposite cognitive wiring
- Adapt communication style, not personality, to supercharge the relationship
Building trust, confidence, and coaching skills as a product leader
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
July 9, 2023
Management
9
Customer discovery
6
Identity & self-belief
5
- Insight beats authority: know customers better than anyone else in the room.
- Real confidence is shown by asking questions, not asserting answers.
- One question — 'how might the opposite be true?' — dissolves false trade-offs.
How to convince resistant leaders that organizational evolution is necessary
Cameron Herold
July 5, 2023
Management
8
Hiring & recruitment
6
- 30 years of experience is often five years repeated with no growth
- Private lunches with blunt data points beat direct confrontation
- A tech-savvy junior hire can outperform a stagnant veteran leader
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to fix compensation and title inflation in a fast-growing team
Dan Martell
July 3, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
8
Management
7
Processes & SOPs
6
- Inflated titles create pay gaps that trap founders in awkward negotiations.
- A compensation audit against market rates exposes who's over- or under-paid.
- Milestone-based L&D plans turn title gaps into a growth roadmap employees accept.
The four levels of value for career growth to the executive level
Dr. Grace Lee
July 2, 2023
Management
8
Communication
6
Identity & self-belief
5
- Why better communicators get promoted over more experienced colleagues
- Four distinct value levels map the path from intern to CEO
- Visionary thinking — not execution — is the highest-paid skill in any industry
Speak last to get better team decisions
EOS Worldwide
June 29, 2023
Communication
9
Management
6
- Speaking first in meetings shuts down honest team input
- Ask others first, share your view last, then discuss
- Leader's voice shapes the room before anyone else speaks
Brett Crozier on leadership, conscience, and the courage to act
The Daily Stoic
June 21, 2023
Culture building
8
Management
8
Resilience & grit
5
- Institutions select for conformity, then demand moral independence in a crisis.
- Prioritise first, decide second — the order cannot be reversed.
- Leaders who bear the cost of their own decisions earn the right to make them.
Building consistent feedback policies that drive employee growth
HR Party of One
June 15, 2023
Management
9
Culture building
6
Processes & SOPs
5
- Inconsistent manager standards quietly destroy feedback culture
- Four questions to ask before giving any feedback
- Track feedback formally — it protects employees and managers
Building a long and meaningful PM career: Nikhyl Singhal's framework
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
June 11, 2023
Management
8
Goal setting
7
Identity & self-belief
6
- Catching the rabbit kills your career — design your next North Star before you need it.
- X-growth companies burn employee equity while searching for product-market fit they may never find.
- Your biggest executive blind spot hides in the shadow of your strongest superpower.
How many direct reports a COO or CEO should have
Cameron Herold
May 28, 2023
Delegation
9
Management
7
- 11 direct reports as COO leaves no time to grow anyone
- CEOs cap at five; COOs cap at seven or eight
- Homogeneous teams are the exception — identical roles allow more reports
How to coach and manage your most difficult managers
HR Party of One
May 18, 2023
Management
9
Conflict resolution
5
- A six-step plan to fix problem managers before termination becomes necessary
- Train all managers together so the difficult one doesn't feel targeted
- Skip-level meetings and 360 feedback reveal whether coaching is working
Why HR should own and standardise the employee termination process
HR Party of One
May 4, 2023
Management
9
Compliance & regulation
8
- Terminations without HR involvement create legal exposure and access gaps
- A three-strike warning system protects against liability before firing
- Departing employees should leave feeling respected, not resentful
How COOs build trust, navigate conflict, and scale companies
Cameron Herold
April 30, 2023
Management
9
Delegation
6
Scaling infrastructure
5
- Why the COO's real job is growing people, not doing things
- Anticipatory humility: pre-authorise hard feedback before conflict arises
- Scaling requires teaching systems to everyone, not just the CEO
Hiring & recruitment
YouTube
How to find and work with the right COO for your stage of growth
Cameron Herold
April 26, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
9
Vision & mission
6
Management
5
- The right COO for $2M–$100M is the wrong hire at $100M+
- Activity inventory: price every task before you know what to delegate
- COO as confidant, stabiliser, and brakes to the CEO's accelerator
How to grow as a COO: self-awareness, delegation, and work-life integration
Cameron Herold
April 20, 2023
Management
8
Delegation
7
Work-life balance
6
- Quarterly self-critique and peer feedback expose the blind spots holding you back.
- CEOs who dump projects without context force their COO into costly catch-up loops.
- Work-life balance is a myth — aim for integration across shifting monthly priorities.