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

Understanding The Interdependence System #interdependence #business

2 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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A short spoken segment (YouTube) by Cameron Herold describing the hiring trait he calls "interdependence" for franchisees: candidates should be willing to follow existing systems but also able to improvise when systems are missing. He argues against hiring pure entrepreneurs who ignore established best practices and emphasizes training franchise partners to quickly operate at the next stage of the business.

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When I started to build 1,800ga junk, I looked for franchisees and I taught the company to hire and find franchisees who had what we called interdependence. They were dependent enough to follow the system if it existed. But if there was no system in place, they could be independent enough to make it up on their own. But we didn't want pure entrepreneurs. We didn't want people who would figure out all the systems on their own because they would ignore the best practices inside of that system. So what we were trying to do is leapfrog over all of the stages to get really good franchisees or really good partners who could right away get into that we stage of the business. Any of the stuff that kind of grates on you, or anytime you think you're smarter than the system to try to put that aside and remember that you're either in the terrible two stage or you're in the teenager stage, or you're in the adolescent stage. But at some point you're going to have kids on your own and you're going to remember that mom and dad were really trying to do the absolute best they could for you.