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

What Got You Here Won’t Keep You Here

11 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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A short transcript excerpt from a conversation about early challenges in a new leadership role: the speaker describes two major business disruptions within their first 180 days that forced production stoppages and required shifting plans; the other speaker admits they initially handled the emotional impact poorly. The exchange centers on operational interruptions and emotional responses to stopping production.

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We had a major business disruption in my first 90 days. We actually had two major business disruptions in my first 180 days. I started and thought, like, okay, I'm going to do some fork structure stuff and we're going to get people in the right positions. And then the first thing happened in November and it's like, oh, crap, we got to adjust now. We have to address this issue with stock traffic production for a little bit. And then we came out of that. And then, like early January, we had another huge disruption with our largest customer who went through some government reorg. And it meant that production had to stop again. So it did require me to shift a little bit.
And I'll be honest, I didn't handle it very well in the beginning because there is a lot of emotion around stopping production.
David and I had a really good.
Conversation about how I didn't handle things.
Well because it was very, very emotional for me.
And I tend to step back and like problem solve alone. And that created some challenges, right? Because then she's not really knowing what I'm doing and I'm not really sharing. So it was a really good lesson and kind of like a reset for me. Everyone wants the seat at the table or they want to be in these two positions, but you don't really know until you get in it how you need to shift and change. And I kept thinking to myself, what got you here won't keep you. There is a saying that you hear a lot, and it's so true.