As a leader, when you get into these senior roles, at times you have to be very, very careful with the stuff that you get out.

I'm helping four clients right now sell their companies, and it's a real art to be able to continue running a company, continue managing a leadership team,

and only have one or two people on that team actually know that you're working for an exit,

because the rest of people would be panicked.

So you have to be very careful when you get into those situations.

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 hate being told about all the stuff that's going wrong in your business?

Is it hard for you to accept feedback or criticism?

I get it, me too.

In this episode, I'm going to tell you how I finally turned the corner on these issues.

I'll talk about why I used to get confrontational and why feedback was so hard for me.

I'm going to cover a bunch of lessons I really wish I'd known at a much younger age, but only because of years and decades of leading people have I really learned them.

These secrets will change you. I hope you love this episode as much as I did making it for you.

I get so confrontational.

I don't know why I get confrontational.

I used to take every somebody earlier said like feedback is

you know greater feedback is whatever

fucking feedback I hated feedback man because I was always working so hard I took feedback as like intense

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