Cameron Herold's second-in-command Tressa peppered him with questions about a new idea, which he mistook for pushback. She had six minutes to understand what he'd been thinking about for weeks. Different leadership styles need different things: some need facts first, others need systems, others need to start and figure it out.
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When I was scaling up 1-800-God junk. My second in command, her name was Tressa. I was rolling out this idea to her one day and she started asking me all these questions. I'm like, why are you debating me about this? And she goes, I'm not. I'm just trying to understand it. You keep asking me all these questions like you don't like it. She goes, cameron, you've been thinking about this idea for the last six days to six weeks. I've had six minutes to understand it. I need to ask you a bunch of questions so I don't need to bug you again. And I'm like, oh, I thought you were just arguing with me. She goes, I think this is one of the best ideas you've had recently. But she's a high fact finder, so her first number of the four was very high. She was like a nine fact finder, meaning for her to start or initiate a project, she would ask a lot of questions. If she had a high second number, it meant for her to start or initiate a project, she had to put a system or a playbook in place. If you have a high third number, you just start and you plan later.