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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Customer experience

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How to use Net Promoter Score with employees and customers

Cameron Herold November 5, 2023


Customer experience 8
Processes & SOPs 7
Management 6
  • Run NPS across employees, customers, and partners twice a year
  • One follow-up question on the thank-you page drives actionable changes
  • Ask what people want, implement the top responses — then watch scores rise

Identity & self-belief

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Entrepreneurial wiring is a feature, not a disorder

Cameron Herold October 30, 2023


Identity & self-belief 9
  • The traits schools pathologise are exactly what make entrepreneurs effective.
  • ADD-style attention isn't broken — it sees everything at once.
  • Trusting your own signal over external judgment is non-negotiable.

Hiring & recruitment

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How to hire the right COO by auditing your own strengths

Cameron Herold October 29, 2023


Hiring & recruitment 9
Outsourcing & delegation 6
Long-term planning 5
  • Map every task you do into four categories to find what to delegate
  • A COO's real job is to protect and amplify the CEO's energy
  • The right CEO–COO pairing is multiplicative, not just additive

Management

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What a new COO should do in the first 90 days

Cameron Herold October 23, 2023


Management 9
Processes & SOPs 6
  • Do nothing for 30 days — observe before you act
  • Stress-test every assumption before making a single change
  • Early quick wins in month three build credibility for bigger projects

Hiring & recruitment

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The COO role: what it is and how to hire for it

Cameron Herold October 18, 2023


Hiring & recruitment 9
Management 8
Processes & SOPs 6
  • The right COO is defined entirely by the CEO's gaps and profile.
  • A COO grows people and systems — not fixes problems directly.
  • Pushing a COO into firefighting destroys the two-in-a-box leverage.

Hiring & recruitment

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COO compensation in the US: what to actually pay your second in command

Cameron Herold October 15, 2023


Hiring & recruitment 9
Unit economics 5
  • Title inflation makes 'average COO salary' a meaningless number
  • Real mid-sized company COOs earn $300k–$450k, not $140k
  • Benchmark by company size, role scope, and state — not title

Productivity & habits

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Six morning habits for entrepreneurs using the SAVERS framework

Cameron Herold October 11, 2023


Productivity & habits 10
Delegation 5
  • Six-step SAVERS acronym structures a high-leverage entrepreneur morning
  • Daily scribing is the habit that makes all other habits stick
  • Growing your team's confidence scales the company faster than self-improvement alone

Management

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Leadership, AI adoption, and community for CEOs and COOs

Cameron Herold October 8, 2023


Management 8
AI strategy & adoption 7
Vision & mission 6
  • The only employee whose job is at risk ignores AI entirely.
  • Mastermind communities work because your brain mimics the people around you.
  • Delegate everything except your unique ability — your team prefers it.

Management

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Why titles matter and how to flip the org chart

Cameron Herold October 4, 2023


Management 9
Culture building 6
  • Titles aren't the problem — top-down authority is.
  • Flip the org chart so leaders serve beneath their teams.
  • Hierarchy helps when leaders remove obstacles instead of issuing orders.

Management

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Four leadership styles every CEO needs to master

Cameron Herold October 2, 2023


Management 10
  • Adapt your style task-by-task, not person-by-person.
  • Micromanaging experts is patronising; delegating to novices is negligent.
  • Skill and confidence on a specific task determine which style to use.

Hiring & recruitment

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When COO is the right title — and when it isn't

Cameron Herold October 1, 2023


Hiring & recruitment 9
Management 6
  • Five factors determine whether COO is the right title
  • Someone needing daily direction is a director, not a COO
  • A real COO operates independently and brings strategic depth

Hiring & recruitment

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Internal vs external COO: how to decide which is right

Cameron Herold September 27, 2023


Hiring & recruitment 9
Management 5
  • Write the scorecard before you pick the candidate, not after.
  • COO success is about people leadership, not functional expertise.
  • Promoting a top performer without the right skills harms everyone.

Networking

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How CEOs and entrepreneurs get the most out of mastermind communities

Cameron Herold September 24, 2023


Networking 9
Identity & self-belief 7
  • Show up to contribute first — givers extract the most from peer groups
  • Vulnerability from one member raises the trust level for everyone
  • Track contacts with a mentor list: group met, three strengths noted

Management

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Why CEOs must invest in their leadership team, not just themselves

Cameron Herold September 22, 2023


Management 8
  • Growing only your own skills while neglecting your team guarantees a losing company.
  • Your COO and managers need dedicated training, coaching, and peer communities too.
  • 1-800-GOT-JUNK scaled by developing the whole leadership team, not just the CEO.

Long-term planning

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Strategic growth: acquisitions, AI adoption, and scaling decisions

Cameron Herold September 20, 2023


Long-term planning 8
AI strategy & adoption 8
Hiring & recruitment 6
  • Acquiring competitors beats organic growth past a certain scale
  • Employees who refuse AI will be replaced by those who don't
  • Pay 80th-percentile or executives will leave — equity rarely compensates

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