Overwhelmed CEOs: Hire the Wrong #2 and Watch Your Company Crash

18 Sept 2025 · 1 min
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A German-language excerpt from a Cameron Herold YouTube video advising CEOs against hastily hiring a second-in-command. It warns that COO roles vary widely and stresses that the hiring process should start by assessing the CEO’s personality and needs to find a complementary COO, rather than searching for a generic ‘hardcore COO.’

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