Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the C.O. Alliance and brought to

its founder Cameron Herald.

In the second-in-command podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies,

and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

And now here's your host, Cameron Harold.

Okay, so we have a special edition of the Second and Command Podcast.

I had a couple of people actually come to me over the last six months and ask me if I would do

an episode and they said, you know, you're recording all these great seconds in command

everywhere but you've been a CEO a few times yourself we'd love to hear from you so I

thought what I would do is a bit of an ask me anything so I went out on

Facebook and LinkedIn this week and asked some question, basically one question,

if you wanted to ask me a question about leadership or being a second in command, what would you ask me?

And I'm just going to go ahead and give a Q&A and I'll try to give everyone's name on these

as well.

So the first question we have is from Ian Wyatt, who's the president and publisher of Wyatt Investment

Research.

He said many smaller businesses below 10 million in revenues get along

without a COO. What are the signs that a company needs a CIO? And if you were consulting with an

entrepreneur, how would you know when to recommend that they get their first

hire? So I think it's a great question. First off what I've always said is if you

don't have an assistant you are one. It's a quote that I learned from a friend of

mine Jack Daly about 20 years ago and I've often said that that if you

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