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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Five things every CEO must focus on
Cameron Herold
January 15, 2026
Management
8
Vision & mission
7
Cash flow management
5
A vivid vision document aligns everyone to a shared 3-year future
Cash is oxygen — early-stage systems will bankrupt a scaling company
The CEO's only real job is direction, people, cash, relationships, and strategy
Three problems COOs face and how to solve them
Cameron Herold
January 7, 2026
Management
9
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Delegation
5
CEOs who break their own rules destroy system adoption company-wide.
Cap delegation by time, not quality — 60 minutes is enough.
Teach CEOs skip-level meetings to stop meddling without conflict.
Long-term planning
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Why "Strategic Planning" Is a Broken Term — and How to Fix It
Cameron Herold
January 6, 2026
Long-term planning
9
Business operating systems
6
Strategy is thinking; planning is execution — never conflate them.
Five-year plans are obsolete; cap detailed planning at 12 months.
Work backwards from hire dates — recruiting takes four months minimum.
Long-term planning
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Focus on the critical few things to build compounding momentum
Cameron Herold
December 31, 2025
Long-term planning
8
Deep work & focus
6
More initiatives slow growth — one or two focused bets compound.
Redirect Health's 3,000 five-star reviews came from one relentless push.
Escape velocity: heavy effort early, then momentum pays dividends forever.
How to fire someone with empathy and without debate
Cameron Herold
December 30, 2025
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
5
Only two valid reasons to fire: culture fit or ROI on role.
A fixed script stops the conversation becoming a debate.
Fire at end of day — there is no good week to wait for.
Fire from strength, not relief: managing people out well
Cameron Herold
December 24, 2025
Management
9
Hiring & recruitment
7
Long-term planning
5
Relief when someone quits means you waited too long.
Managers typically survive only two doublings of revenue before the role outgrows them.
Let the team interview and pick their new boss to eliminate resistance.
Scaling Requires Systems Thinking, Not Blame or Individual Fixes
Cameron Herold
December 23, 2025
Processes & SOPs
9
Management
7
People don't fail — missing or broken systems do.
Ask what breaks if the business grows 10x next month.
Got Junk ran the 10x drill; Oprah hit weeks later.
Why untrained managers create a death zone for growing companies
Cameron Herold
December 19, 2025
Management
9
Hiring & recruitment
6
Long-term planning
5
Managers promoted without training are the real growth killer.
Strategic thinking only reliably arrives with outside hires at 100 people.
300-person mark is where culture holds or fractures for good.
Prospecting & outreach
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How Cutco built a referral-driven sales machine and scalable business systems
Cameron Herold
December 17, 2025
Prospecting & outreach
9
Processes & SOPs
8
Sales systems & CRM
7
Referral scripts woven into hiring, training, and every sales call
Mentor incentives aligned with rep earnings — not flat salaries
McDonald-defying systems let C-players execute at A-player level
The core COO skill: growing people, not managing functions
Cameron Herold
December 10, 2025
Delegation
9
Management
7
COOs don't need functional expertise — just people skills
Grow skills and confidence in tandem or your team freezes
Delegate everything; your to-do list should never stay with you
Why culture must report to the CEO, not HR
Cameron Herold
December 8, 2025
Culture building
9
Management
6
Culture and HR are different jobs — split them in your org chart
CEOs must own culture directly, not delegate it to finance
Cult-like belonging — done right — makes employees show up as better humans
Hiring & recruitment
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Why job title inflation is a costly mistake for growing companies
Cameron Herold
December 3, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
8
Scaling infrastructure
6
Inflated titles create direct salary expectations employees will eventually demand.
True C-level means autonomy and P&L ownership — not being told what to do.
Retitling 600 people in one day: painful, necessary, and easier with strong culture.
Founder interviews
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How a three-month reset led Cameron Herold to build the COO Alliance
Cameron Herold
December 1, 2025
Founder interviews
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Three months offline forced genuine decompression and career clarity.
57 documented lessons revealed what he loved versus what he hated.
COO Alliance: a community built exclusively for second-in-command leaders.
How COOs save CEOs from themselves
Cameron Herold
November 26, 2025
Management
8
Processes & SOPs
5
Why 'I love that idea' is the COO's most powerful tool
A walk and six questions can kill a bad idea without conflict
Green, yellow, red: a simple system to filter CEO impulses
Why great COOs say "no" more than you think
Cameron Herold
November 19, 2025
Management
9
Long-term planning
6
A COO who says yes more than no is a problem.
Evaluate every idea by people, time, money, and strategic fit.
Saying no keeps the company on the critical few, not the important many.