When you're in a meeting, the last person to be speaking should be the CEO or the most senior person.

Because our job as leaders is to grow people, to grow their skills, and to grow their confidence.

If we're always speaking, they're not getting to share their ideas.

When we get them to share their ideas, we can go, that's amazing.

And then they feel good about themselves, and then they'll share more ideas. 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.

Do you think out loud as a CEO?

Have you ever really thought about all the business lessons you now know to be true?

Well years ago when I was the C.O. for 1-800-got junk,

I learned the dangers of thinking out loud,

especially when coupled with a large title like CEO or CEO.

In this episode I'll tell you what I learned.

I also spent three months journaling after leaving when it under got junk

and came up with roughly 60 lessons in

business that I wish I'd known when I was in the middle of building the

companies. I'm going to share some of those lessons with you today. I hope you love this episode as much as I did

creating it for you. The CEO is the chief energizing officer. We have to be very careful with everything we say

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