Cameron Herold

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Cameron Herold is known for COO leadership frameworks, meeting discipline, and practical operating systems that help growing companies scale with more clarity and execution rigor.

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Included for trusted guidance on COO leadership frameworks, meeting discipline, and practical operating systems that help growing companies scale with more clarity and execution rigor.

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Hiring & recruitment

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How to build a hiring system that finds A players at scale

Cameron Herold December 28, 2024


Hiring & recruitment 10
Processes & SOPs 6
  • Scorecards beat job descriptions — measure outcomes, not personality traits
  • Group interviews let candidates screen each other for cultural fit
  • Making the process hard attracts A players and repels everyone else

Hiring & recruitment

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How to hire executive talent without losing A players

Cameron Herold December 23, 2024


Hiring & recruitment 9
Management 5
  • Slow scheduling and premature selling drive top candidates away
  • Reaching out without naming the company makes passive talent opt in
  • Grill candidates hard — A players want the job more, not less

Outsourcing & delegation

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How to use offshore staffing to cut costs and unlock growth

Cameron Herold December 21, 2024


Outsourcing & delegation 9
Hiring & recruitment 6
Unit economics 5
  • Pairing a $10–15/hr VA with a local director multiplies output disproportionately.
  • Offshore staff create more U.S. jobs — not fewer — by unlocking growth.
  • Playbooks built from day one let businesses own their processes regardless of turnover.

Management

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Ten common questions about COOs answered by Cameron Herold

Cameron Herold December 16, 2024


Management 10
Processes & SOPs 6
Resilience & grit 5
  • Execute before you connect and your team will revolt.
  • Situational leadership: match your style to the person and task.
  • Too much vulnerability with your team destroys the trust it builds.

Management

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12 Answers to Common Leadership Questions from Cameron Herold

Cameron Herold December 14, 2024


Management 9
Delegation 7
  • Leaders grow people — delegate everything, develop skills and confidence.
  • Use conflict models, time audits, and daily huddles as core frameworks.
  • Financial literacy and disciplined hiring decisions are non-negotiable leadership skills.

Management

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Why teams quietly quit and how leaders fix it

Cameron Herold December 9, 2024


Management 9
Hiring & recruitment 6
Culture building 6
  • Quiet quitting is a leadership failure, not an employee choice.
  • Core values only count if you fire people who break them.
  • Praising twice for every push forward builds a resilient culture.

Management

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How to support, develop, and lead your team effectively

Cameron Herold December 7, 2024


Management 9
Delegation 8
Culture building 7
  • One-on-ones should support the person, not chase task status
  • Delegate anything below half your hourly rate — focus on growing people
  • Trust isn't earned from zero; core values are what build or break it

Hiring & recruitment

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Hire for attitude and proven skill set, not attitude alone

Cameron Herold December 2, 2024


Hiring & recruitment 9
  • "Hire for attitude, train for skill" is obsolete — short tenures killed it
  • Proven skill means done it before, not just knows how it works
  • A Vivid Vision document repels poor fits and magnetically attracts A players

Processes & SOPs

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Jeff Bezos's two-pizza rule for leaner, productive meetings

Cameron Herold November 30, 2024


Processes & SOPs 8
Management 6
  • Oversized meetings waste money compounded across 250 working days
  • Two pizzas = the maximum headcount for any meeting
  • Define purpose, outcomes, and agenda before deciding who to invite

Outsourcing & delegation

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Scaling franchise systems: lessons from 1-800-GOT-JUNK's growth

Cameron Herold November 25, 2024


Outsourcing & delegation 10
Hiring & recruitment 8
Pricing strategy 7
  • Raise prices before scaling — underpricing kills franchisee profitability from day one
  • Secretly listening to franchisee complaints and fixing them built a +97% NPS
  • Hire a second-in-command only when the title matches real strategic scope and pay

Culture building

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Scaling a business to $100M: culture, systems, and leadership skills

Cameron Herold November 23, 2024


Culture building 8
Management 8
Processes & SOPs 6
  • Growing your team returns 700x more than growing yourself
  • Culture is built on vivid vision and values, not perks
  • Systems prevent failure — people don't fail, missing systems do

Hiring & recruitment

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How to hire A-players: culture fit, scorecards, and removing wrong people

Cameron Herold November 18, 2024


Hiring & recruitment 10
Culture building 7
Management 5
  • Wrong hire costs 15x salary — filter ruthlessly before reviewing resumes.
  • Scorecards beat job descriptions: hire people who've done it before.
  • Keeping high-results jerks drives away your best people.

Culture building

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Four cornerstones of company culture: vivid vision, purpose, values, BHAG

Cameron Herold November 16, 2024


Culture building 9
Business operating systems 7
  • Core values only count if you're willing to fire people who break them.
  • A BHAG should feel impossible from outside but achievable from within.
  • Vivid vision aligns employees, customers, and suppliers in one direction.

Vision & mission

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Vivid Vision: how to align your company around a shared future

Cameron Herold November 11, 2024


Vision & mission 9
Hiring & recruitment 8
Culture building 7
  • A written 3-year company picture that makes alignment automatic
  • One company went from $110M to $512M using this method
  • Wrong people repelled by design — the magnet must push as well as pull

Management

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Gratitude, leadership skills, and building aligned organisations

Cameron Herold November 9, 2024


Management 9
Vision & mission 7
Culture building 5
  • Most leaders manage people without ever receiving formal leadership training.
  • A three-year vivid vision prevents the whiplash of annual board-driven direction changes.
  • Losing a close friend at 44 reframes what business — and gratitude — are really for.

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