Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the COO Alliance and brought to

you by 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.

When I first started this show,

I asked around to different folks in my network for other podcasts that they listen to about

operations and the work of people in operations. And to be honest, at the time there wasn't a lot out there, which is one of the reasons why we started this show in the first place.

But there was only one podcast that I kept hearing about from multiple people and multiple people telling me that I needed to check it out.

That podcast is called Second in Command and it focuses on exclusively interviewing chief operating officers

who are you guessed it

typically the second in command to the CEO. The host of that podcast and our

guest today is Cameron Herald. In addition to his podcast duties, Cameron is the founder of the

COO Alliance, the former COO of 1-800 got junk. He's a keynote speaker and author and

honestly one of the foremost thinkers and leaders on the work of

COOs and their relationship with CEOs. In short he's a pretty big deal and so I'm

really excited that we were able to get him to spend some time with us on our show.

In our conversation, Cameron and I talk about the eight core areas that a COO should be measured on.

We cover how operations teams can help to execute a company's vivid

vision and why his team's stand-up meetings were religiously scheduled from 1055 to 1102.

To start with all the different data points that Cameron has amassed

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