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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Identity & self-belief

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The overlooked personality traits that drive entrepreneurial success

Cameron Herold May 27, 2024


Identity & self-belief 9
Resilience & grit 7
Management 5
  • ADD and bipolar traits are entrepreneurial superpowers, not disorders
  • Tim Ferriss turned $25,000 into $108M by backing Uber alone
  • Working smart beats working hard — R&D means rip off and duplicate

Management

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How a nomadic entrepreneur leads teams across 40 countries

Cameron Herold May 25, 2024


Management 9
Processes & SOPs 6
  • A 2-for-1 purging rule makes going nomadic actually achievable.
  • Naming the meeting style for each agenda item kills conflict and silence.
  • Leaders who acknowledge employee struggles get more commitment than business incentives ever could.

Culture building

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Practical leadership systems for culture, meetings, and employee care

Cameron Herold May 20, 2024


Culture building 9
Management 8
Processes & SOPs 6
  • A structured meeting rhythm from daily huddles to annual retreats drives alignment
  • Culture is vision and core values — not perks, slides, or free lunch
  • Caring about employees' real dreams cuts turnover and builds brick-wall loyalty

Culture building

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Four pillars of business culture and the vivid vision framework

Cameron Herold May 18, 2024


Culture building 9
Vision & mission 8
  • A vivid vision should repel half your candidates — intentionally.
  • Your BHAG must look impossible from outside, achievable from inside.
  • Raising prices 50% saved 1-800-GOT-JUNK when no one was profitable.

Prospecting & outreach

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How to give business gifts that people actually value

Cameron Herold May 13, 2024


Prospecting & outreach 7
Customer experience 6
  • Branded swag and generic gifts actively damage client relationships
  • A $9,000 hotel room gift cost the sender almost nothing
  • Personal gifts outperform equal-spend dinners on lasting recall

AI strategy & adoption

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Employees who use AI daily will survive — those who don't won't

Cameron Herold May 11, 2024


AI strategy & adoption 9
Management 6
  • Ignoring AI is like refusing the internet — a career-ending choice.
  • A play-and-share model builds AI fluency across the whole team fast.
  • Real leadership finds automation first; hiring more people is the lazy answer.

Vision & mission

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How to write a Vivid Vision for your company

Cameron Herold April 29, 2024


Vision & mission 10
Management 6
  • The CEO must write the Vivid Vision alone — no group input
  • Describe your company three years out, present tense, qualitative not quantitative
  • Leave the office entirely; constraints kill creative vision-writing

Culture building

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How to build a vivid vision and grow the people who execute it

Cameron Herold April 27, 2024


Culture building 8
Vision & mission 8
Delegation 6
  • A polarising three-year written vision beats any mission statement by committee
  • Grow leadership skills virally — employees certify each other across silos
  • Leaders spending 50% growing people create self-managing, self-directing teams

Management

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How the best leaders grow by turning blame inward

Cameron Herold April 22, 2024


Management 8
Resilience & grit 7
  • Blaming others blocks growth — owning your contribution unlocks it.
  • Criticism from employees and customers is rare and worth seeking out.
  • Self-examination after every action compounds leadership growth over time.

Public speaking

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How to build visibility and advance your career through self-advocacy

Cameron Herold April 20, 2024


Public speaking 8
Identity & self-belief 7
  • Claim your title before anyone gives it to you — like Kawasaki did.
  • Speaking publicly, even at small events, outpaces any exec who stays quiet.
  • Writing your own book cements lessons better than reading someone else's.

Culture building

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Relationships, culture, and the second in command: lessons from decades of entrepreneurship

Cameron Herold April 8, 2024


Culture building 9
Hiring & recruitment 7
Management 6
  • Caring about employees' bucket lists, not birthdays, drives company growth.
  • A vivid vision filters hiring: video pitches replace resume stacks.
  • Hire a second in command only after mapping what drains you vs. fuels you.

Resilience & grit

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How Cameron Herold recovered from three career burnouts

Cameron Herold April 6, 2024


Resilience & grit 9
Work-life balance 8
Communication 5
  • Scored 435 on a stress test — above 250 means 90% heart attack risk
  • Three burnouts share a common cure: physical health and hard work boundaries
  • Accepting the to-do list never ends is what finally freed his evenings

Management

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Growing your people: the 12 core leadership skills every manager needs

Cameron Herold April 1, 2024


Management 9
Processes & SOPs 5
  • Most managers have never been trained on the skills they use daily.
  • Two ladders — skills and confidence — must grow together as the company scales.
  • Tie leadership certification to pay raises to close the training gap.

Hiring & recruitment

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How to hire, leverage, and replace a COO at the right growth stage

Cameron Herold March 30, 2024


Hiring & recruitment 9
Management 8
Outsourcing & delegation 6
  • Wrong COO costs 15x salary; right one returns 4x their cost
  • Seven distinct COO types — match the type to the growth stage
  • Every senior hire has a shelf life: two doubles is the limit

Culture building

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How CEOs can energise teams through gratitude, presence, and praise

Cameron Herold March 25, 2024


Culture building 9
Management 8
Resilience & grit 5
  • Praise twice for every criticism or new project you assign.
  • Your state before the meeting determines the energy inside it.
  • Every business area lead's most important team is the whole company.

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