Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Entrepreneurs Love Systems Until They Have to Follow Them

6 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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Cameron Herold explains why entrepreneurs resist the systems they claim to love: their rule-breaking nature and need to prove themselves. His Kolbe profile shows a high-speed mindset that floods teams with ideas and creates "train wrecks." He says the biggest obstacle is the entrepreneur themselves, and leaders must slow down and actually use the systems they expect their teams to follow.

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One thing about entrepreneurs that is so true is that we really want systems inside of our company, but I'll tell you something, we don't use them. So the reason entrepreneurs don't like to follow systems is most of us are rule breakers. Most of us are trying to prove to the system that we're smart. We're still trying to get that kind of feeling of acceptance. My Kolbe profile, as an example, is 4-3-9-3. And on my DiSC profile, I'm a 98-I, which means I'm basically running 100 miles an hour, but I can only see 50 miles in front of me. So because we're quick starts and that kind of manic energy generates lots of ideas, our brain is full. So what we need to do is start things in the absence of giving them to someone to hold onto them for us. So we just kind of often create train wrecks. It's why a lot of entrepreneurs practice what I call seagull management. They swoop in, they shit all over everybody, and then they fly away. So the biggest problem Entrepreneurs have inside of the company is often themselves. And the biggest gift you can give to your employees is to slow down and force yourself into the systems that you want them to use as well. My example, let my team post on social media instead of me posting. So this video is something I have to send to my team instead of me posting it right now for myself.