Ep. 256 – How Improving Your Manager’s Skills Is The Key To Business Growth

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

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Careers, Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.9 • 225 Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Today’s episode features an interview Cameron did as part of the Strategy and Leadership podcast with Anthony Taylor. During the discussion, Cameron explains the point where a business needs a second in command: Specifically, when a business grows to the point where it can’t handle the people and is missing opportunities. Many entrepreneurs make the […]

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0:00.0	COO's job is to make the CEO look good, right?
0:03.9	It was to make the CEO iconic.
0:06.4	My job was to make Brian look like the Shining Star
0:09.0	at 1ingender got junk.
0:10.6	So it was to take all the tough decisions off his plate, to take all the hard work off his plate, to allow him to be vision and culture.
0:18.0	And then Brian's job behind the scenes with the employees was to make sure that people still like me even though I had to be the hard
0:23.8	ass all the time.
0:24.8	Yeah.
0:25.8	Right.
0:26.8	So his job is kind of like mom had to make dad look good, dad had to make mom look good.
0:30.8	And then behind the scenes, mom and dad can argue and fight but not in front of the kids.
0:35.6	That's important for the CEO of as well. Welcome to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the COO Alliance and brought to
0:49.3	you by its founder Cameron Herald. In the Second in Command podcast we talked to top
0:54.6	coos who share the insights, strategies and tactics that made them the chief
0:59.6	behind the chief. And now here's your host, Cameron Herald.
1:08.0	Today I am so grateful to be joined by Cameron Herald.
1:12.0	Cameron, how are you today?
1:13.7	Hey Anthony, thanks for having me, appreciate it.
1:15.5	Oh man, fellow BC person living in BC.
1:18.3	So Cameron is the founder of the CEO Alliance.
1:21.3	He is the, he's authored five books, and I have read I think three of them.
1:25.8	Just a big foundational part of the Vancouver ecosystem was a long time
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