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Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Ep. 229 – Differentiating Between Company Culture & a Cult

Second in Command: The Chief Behind the Chief with Cameron Herold

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Entrepreneurship, Management, Business, Careers

4.9225 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, we feature a special appearance of Cameron Herold on the A Little Bit Culty Podcast with Sarah & Nippy. In today’s episode, Cameron discusses how a great company culture must be more than a business and a little less than a religion, leaning towards a cult. Also, what are the warning signs […]

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0:00.0

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

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you by its founder, Cameron Herald.

0:14.2

In the second-in-command podcast,

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we talked to top COOs who share the insights,

0:18.9

strategies and tactics that made them the chief behind the chief.

0:23.4

And now here's your host, Cameron Herald.

0:27.1

So our guest today, we met and have a kind of bizarre connection. I'll let him explain

0:36.2

because I think it's it's kind of funny. But Cameron Herald is I've actually never met him

0:41.0

in person even though he lives in Vancouver and I will blame the

0:43.7

pandemic on that one and his busy travel schedule he's always in various exotic places as a

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speaker he's actually known as the CEO Whisper. He's the founder of the

0:55.0

CEO Alliance, author of five business books including Vivid Vision, and the

0:59.4

founder of the Invest in Your Leaders course. He's been paid to speak in all seven continents

1:04.5

including Antarctica and is the former CEO of 1-800 got junk which was

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ranked the number two company to work for in all of Canada and twice ranked

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number one to work for in BC. It even became a case study at the Harvard Business

1:17.9

School. He's coached dozens of real companies globally and is known for creating world

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class company cultures.

1:24.2

The publisher of Forbes magazine, Forbes magazine, all comes full circle, said Cameron

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Herald is the best speaker I've ever heard.

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Cameron has likely said this quote on stages hundreds of times and now regrets it.

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Quote, to build an amazing company, it has to be a little bit more than a business and a little bit less than a religion. It has to be in the zone of a cult."

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