Ep. 260 – Building The Foundations And Growing Your Business Without Sacrificing Your Well-being

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

Second in Command with Cameron Herold

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Management, Business

4.9 • 225 Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Are you a CEO looking to take your business to the next level without burning out? In this episode, Cameron discusses his advice on growing your company without overworking yourself. Key to this is hiring the right personnel, starting with outsourcing to fractional employees before moving on to full-time hires, with an emphasis on revenue-producing […]

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0:00.0	The CEO or the entrepreneur is about vision, right?
0:02.1	You're the one who has to be the caretaker of vision and culture.
0:04.8	So I always say the entrepreneur can only ever have five direct reports
0:07.7	because you also have your board and legal and culture that you have to take care of.
0:10.8	I think the CEO's job is around growing people. I flipped the org chart upside down. The
0:15.3	CEO is at the bottom of the org chart, supporting the VPs, who support the managers, who support the employees, who support
0:20.6	the customers. So it's an inverted pyramid as your org chart. If you do it
0:23.8	right your job is to be able to support so my job is to direct you and make sure you're
0:27.8	working on the right stuff and give you the emotional support and the
0:30.2	technical support you might need through mentoring or situational leadership to help you. to the Second in Command Podcast, produced by the COO Alliance and brought to you by its founder, Cameron Harold.
0:48.0	In the Second in Command Podcast, we talked to top COOs who share the insights, strategies, and tactics that made them the chief behind
0:56.1	the chief.
0:57.3	And now here's your host, Cameron Herald. Are you getting burned out as a leader of your company? Are you frustrated trying to grow the business without destroying yourself?
1:10.0	In this episode you're going to hear my thoughts about both. We're going to cover who to hire and when to hire them.
1:16.0	I'll tell you about times that I burned out and was clinically redlining with stress and how I got through it.
1:21.0	I'm going to explain why you're doing it all wrong and that you should actually be at the bottom of the org chart, not at the top.
1:28.0	You're going to love this episode. If you're a one or two minutes, pull your hand up. Now keep them up if you work more than you'd like.
1:40.0	Okay, so for that amount of the room, working more than they want, but the one or two man shows,
1:46.4	the biggest transition that I have seen, like the biggest challenge has been for those individuals
1:50.6	to get the first hire right, or to start learning how to build the team.
1:55.0	The last year, there's several of our backroom members who were one in two man shows and now they have,
2:01.0	there's the first one that was really, really difficult.
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