E61: Paint a picture of your ideal future with Cameron Herold

Show Notes:

Cameron Herold is the mastermind behind hundreds of companies’ exponential growth. He has been an entrepreneur since he was a teen, with 14 employees by the time he was 21. He also helped build two $100M+ business by the time he was 35. By 42, had brought 1-800-GOT-JUNK from $2 million to $106 million in only six years. He has four acclaimed books and is a renowned speaker.

Episode highlights:

• The truth about whether most entrepreneurs could be diagnosed with a variety of mental disorders. (Spoiler alert: Yes they could.)
• How Cameron was “groomed” to be an entrepreneur.
• What should be done to better nurture young, growing entrepreneurs.
• How to create a “Vivid Vision” to thrive in your business.
• The best way to combat “shiny object syndrome”.
• Best advice he’s ever received: take other companies’ great ideas and figure out how to put them in place
• Habit that contributes to success: focus and networking
• Recommended book:
  • Traction: Get a Grip on your Business by Gino Wickman
  • The 1-Minute Manager by Kenneth Blanchard PhD and Spencer Johnson, MD
  • Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm and Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It…and Why the Rest Don’t (Rockefeller Habits 2.0) by Verne Harnish.

Tip: narrow down your reading list to whatever you’re focused on for the next quarter, rather than reading random books.

• Recommended tools: Focus Time

Links:

• Double Double: How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years or Less by Cameron Herold
• Meetings Suck: Turning One of The Most Loathed Elements of Business into One of the Most Valuable by Cameron Herold
• The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs: Elevate Your SELF to Elevate Your BUSINESS by Cameron Herold
• Vivid Vision: A Remarkable Tool For Aligning Your Business Around a Shared Vision of the Future by Cameron Herold
• CameronHerold.com
• TheCOOalliance.com
• Cameron’s vivid vision for COO Alliance
• Commit to three app
• Genius network
• Baby bathwater
• Maverick
• Cameron’s Ted Talk
• Focus Time

Quotes:

• “We would not only run these businesses, we would learn from them.”
• “Entrepreneurship has finally become cool.”
• “The more I share my vivid vision with other people, the more they can figure out how to help grow my business.”

Takeaways:

• Follow Cameron’s guidelines to create a Vivid Vision, describing details from media and marketing to employees. Consider the four corners of your puzzle: the plan, the BHAG, the core values, and the core purpose.