How COOs can avoid burnout through delegation and boundaries
Cameron Herold
January 1, 2024
Delegation
9
Work-life balance
7
- You will never finish your to-do list — stop trying.
- Delegate everything except genius to grow your team.
- Hard cap at 50 hours; no nights, no weekends.
Identity & self-belief
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How to secure your COO role and stay confident
Cameron Herold
December 31, 2023
Identity & self-belief
9
Management
6
- You're the only person the CEO truly trusts to say no.
- Peer groups dissolve imposter syndrome — everyone feels like the outsider.
- Your skills must grow as fast as the company or you're at risk.
Company culture survives remote work — physical offices were never the point
Cameron Herold
December 27, 2023
Culture building
9
Vision & mission
6
- The physical office accounts for just 5–15% of company culture.
- Core values only count if you're willing to fire people who break them.
- A BHAG, vivid vision, and core purpose lock culture in place remotely.
Compliance & regulation
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Key HR dates and tax deadlines for January
HR Party of One
December 26, 2023
Compliance & regulation
8
- Five IRS forms all share the same January 31st deadline.
- Form 940 is only due January 31st if FUTA wasn't paid quarterly.
- Data Privacy Day on January 28th is compliance-awareness, not a holiday.
Read the room: give your team what they need in each session
EOS Worldwide
December 23, 2023
- A 90-minute check-in isn't failure — it's good facilitation.
- Team health enabled 7/10 rocks despite a brutal personal quarter.
- Format flexibility is a skill earned, not a default setting.
Business operating systems
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How Cabral Co. used EOS to bring order, accountability, and growth
EOS Worldwide
December 23, 2023
Business operating systems
10
Management
5
- Outgrowing your own goals is a sign you need a system
- The visionary-integrator split is what makes EOS work
- An EOS implementer is critical when the business is stretched
Hubert Joly on loving people and leading with purpose at Best Buy
Bill Gallagher
December 21, 2023
Management
8
Founder interviews
6
- Love for people is the foundation of great leadership.
- Managing and leading are not the same thing.
- Strategy only works when it has a clear, communicable name.
Business operating systems
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Leadership presence and intentional communication in EOS
EOS Worldwide
December 21, 2023
Business operating systems
9
Communication
7
- Communication directs human energy toward one shared direction
- EOS is powerful, but your leadership gift fine-tunes it
- Your legacy and North Star should guide every leadership decision
Why year-end bonuses are the wrong way to reward employees
Cameron Herold
December 20, 2023
Management
9
Unit economics
5
- Bonuses reward expected performance — that's what salaries are for.
- Index every employee's base pay to inflation, every year.
- Bigger raises signal more responsibility and autonomy, not gratitude.
Hiring & recruitment
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How to cut sales team attrition with better hiring and onboarding
Cameron Herold
December 13, 2023
Hiring & recruitment
9
Processes & SOPs
7
- High sales attrition is caused by poor interviewing, not poor salespeople
- Two weeks of structured onboarding beats throwing people into the fire
- A 10-obstacle brainstorm turns a 20% failure-rate goal into a 20-point plan
Hiring & recruitment
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What a probationary period is and how to structure one
HR Party of One
December 12, 2023
- Both employer and employee can exit with little or no notice
- Goals must target learning, independence, and team assimilation
- Missing goals ends in termination; hitting them unlocks a permanent role
Five business mistakes that slow growth and how to avoid them
KeyPersonOfInfluence
December 10, 2023
Business models
8
Pricing strategy
7
Niche selection
6
- Passive income is a trap — build assets you're passionate about instead.
- Low prices attract the wrong customers; target people who pay to save time.
- Referrals alone are too slow — control at least five acquisition channels.
Business operating systems
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Balance your issues list: scale what's working, not just fix problems
EOS Worldwide
December 9, 2023
Business operating systems
7
Processes & SOPs
6
- Problem-only issues lists bury growth opportunities under endless fixes
- Obsessing over what's broken leaves no bandwidth to scale what works
- Rebalancing toward growth opportunities is what separates thriving companies
Business operating systems
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Why fractional integrators fall short of full-time impact
EOS Worldwide
December 8, 2023
Business operating systems
9
Management
6
Outsourcing & delegation
5
- Fractional Integrators work, but always deliver a lighter version of the role.
- Visionary can't truly delegate without the trust a full-time Integrator builds.
- Fractional is a temporary bridge — the goal is always full-time.
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The three leaders in an EOS-run company
EOS Worldwide
December 7, 2023
Business operating systems
10
Management
5
- Three non-overlapping roles replace one overloaded founder
- Integrators ground visionary ideas in present-day execution
- EOS Implementer is an outside coach, not a company employee