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

The Costly Mistake Every Rookie Manager Makes

27 May 2026 · 0 min

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Cameron Herold says rookie managers hire their way out of problems instead of fixing them. The better move: automate what you have, optimize workflows, and pause new projects before you add people.

I'm frustrated for a lot of companies that their management team doesn't have the skills to manage leaders. I started a course called Invest in Your Leaders just to give people the core skills they need to actually grow and lead people. And one of those skills is around hiring. It feels like every early-stage manager's solution to every problem is hire more people. That's really never the solution, right? The solution is often saying no, stopping what we're doing, and then kind of automating and optimizing the workflows.