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

Why Today's Leaders Need to Think Like Parents

10 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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This is a short spoken excerpt from a January 10, 2025 YouTube video by Cameron Herold arguing that leaders' core job is to grow people — developing their skills, confidence, and connections — and that leaders should think like parents by actively teaching practical skills and fostering independence.

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Leaders core job is to grow people, right? So if you're a CEO and you've got five people working for you, if you're an entrepreneurial company, you got 30 people for you, Whatever it is, our job as leaders, whether we're managers, directors, VPs, or C level, is to grow people, to grow their skills, to grow their confidence, to grow their connections. Very similar to being a parent. Our job as a parent, yes, it's to show love to our kids, yes, it's to be there for them, but it's to give them the skills, the confidence so that they can do all the shit that they need, so they can move out of the house one day and become adults, right? And if you don't teach them how to do laundry and do cooking and do some painting and do some basic car repairs, they're not gonna have the confidence to get out of the house. At 19 and 20. Our great grandparents were running companies at 14 years old because they had the confidence and the skill set. So our job is to grow the skills and confidence and connections of our people.