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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Hiring & recruitment
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Hire accountable people instead of managing accountability
Cameron Herold
August 9, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
9
Delegation
7
Processes & SOPs
5
Accountability is a hiring problem, not a management problem
Delegate everything except your genius — 90% of your to-do list can go
Fix root causes: one company cut a four-person team to one by solving seven problems
How to onboard a COO in 90 days without disrupting the business
Cameron Herold
August 4, 2025
Management
9
Processes & SOPs
7
Acting too early — even correctly — destroys the trust decisions need
Month one: observe only; no decisions until 60 days of context
A personal operating manual prevents most new-COO ripple effects
Cash flow management
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Cutting waste by saying no far more often than yes
Cameron Herold
August 2, 2025
Cash flow management
8
Vision & mission
6
Chasing more revenue often just funds expenses you never needed.
Saying no is a learnable skill every manager must develop.
Zero-based budgeting and Pareto analysis expose hidden waste fast.
Why writing a book builds authority and how to prioritise your work
Cameron Herold
July 28, 2025
Vision & mission
8
Management
6
PR & media
5
A book is a leverage tool, not a passion project
Core purpose should filter every client and commitment you take on
Employee happiness outranks customer satisfaction and profit
Why franchising usually destroys exit value compared to corporate growth
Cameron Herold
July 26, 2025
Business models
9
Exit strategy
8
Franchise royalty revenue is worth far less at exit than corporate revenue.
Jiffy Lube's 600 franchises sold for the same as 60 corporate locations would have.
Before franchising, spend 30 minutes building the case against it.
AI strategy & adoption
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AI agents as named org chart members, not tools
Cameron Herold
July 21, 2025
AI strategy & adoption
9
Management
6
Treat AI agents like named direct reports, not tools
In three years, org charts will list AI agents alongside humans
14% of South Korea's labour force is already robots
The 3-year vivid vision: a blueprint for business alignment
Cameron Herold
July 19, 2025
Vision & mission
9
Culture building
6
Employees don't have bad ideas — they just can't read your mind
Write your company's future as if it already happened, not as goals
The one alignment tool missing from every major operating system
Hiring & recruitment
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Hiring fast learners and adaptable people for fast-growing companies
Cameron Herold
July 15, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
9
Identity & self-belief
6
Roles change every 3–6 months — hire people who adapt, not specialists
Gen Z expects 6–18 month tenures; that's rational, not a red flag
Living globally and entering high-performer rooms beats formal education
Resilience & grit
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Gut instinct, tenacity, and pivoting when your business hits the wall
Cameron Herold
July 12, 2025
Resilience & grit
9
Pivoting
7
Cash flow management
6
A $420k tax surprise cleared in six weeks using three levers
Tenacity, not logic, separates founders who survive from those who quit
Entrepreneurial skills transfer — a failed business is not a failed founder
How CEOs and COOs build an effective working partnership
Cameron Herold
July 7, 2025
Management
9
Delegation
7
Outsourcing & delegation
5
Undefined roles — not bad hiring — are what breaks CEO-COO partnerships.
The COO's job is to make the CEO iconic, never compete for credit.
Skip-level meetings only work if the CEO listens and never commits unilaterally.
Hiring & recruitment
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When to hire a COO and how to integrate one effectively
Cameron Herold
July 5, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
9
Outsourcing & delegation
6
Business operating systems
5
Founders stuck in operations miss the rainmaking that grows the business
A $250–350K COO can deliver a 5–10x return by freeing founder energy
Abdication instead of delegation is what makes COO hires fail
Hiring & recruitment
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How to hire the right COO for your company's current stage
Cameron Herold
July 3, 2025
Hiring & recruitment
9
Vision & mission
6
Management
5
The COO who got you to $100M will likely fail at $1B.
Start with an activity inventory of everything you avoid or suck at.
Knowing how to do something is not the same as having done it.
How 1-800-GOT-JUNK scaled from $2M to $106M in six years
Cameron Herold
July 1, 2025
Case studies
9
Culture building
7
Pricing strategy
6
Raising prices 40% in month one unlocked profitability for everyone.
Two A-players consistently outperform six average hires.
5,200 media placements with zero ad spend — free press as growth engine.
Teaching employees basic investing is a leadership edge
Cameron Herold
June 28, 2025
Culture building
8
Retention & loyalty
5
Starting at 20 beats starting at 30 — even investing 3x less
Guarantee employee principal back to eliminate the fear of investing
Caring about employees' financial futures builds loyalty no perk can match
Focus on the highest-impact tasks and delegate everything else
Cameron Herold
June 23, 2025
Delegation
8
Productivity & habits
7
Blocking A-priorities in your calendar beats any to-do list
No one to delegate to? Grow someone until they can handle it
Your real job is growing people's capacity, not completing tasks