In episode three of the Second in Command Podcast Cameron sat down with Harley Finkelstein, COO of Shopify. Harley’s Background Harley Finkelstein is a Canadian businessman, entrepreneur, and public speaker. He’s also best known as the Chief Operating...
In episode two of the Second in Command Podcast Cameron sat down with Tony Cappaert, COO of Contactually. Tony’s Background Tony started his career in more of a technical role, as Product Manager at Microsoft where he built and designed features, as well as an...
Several years ago, I was mentoring Jason Lew, one of my clients who lived in Boston and was growing chain of bilingual preschools called Pine Village Preschool. He needed to hire twelve new teachers by the end of August. In our discussion I asked these questions about...
If you’ve been following along on our blog, you’ll remember my last post, where I talked about step one of onboarding a new COO. As I said in Part 1 – Resist The Urge To Let Them Do Their Job, it is essential that you immerse your new COO in the...
We all know that recruiting and hiring the perfect COO for your company is not an easy task. It takes a lot of hard work, research, planning, and time. But once all of that is done, and you’ve hired the perfect person – then what? One of the things that I...
What questions do you ask in interviews? “What’s your biggest fault?” “Tell me about a time you disagreed with a supervisor.” Please. With all due respect to the highly trained HR insiders out there, I think traditional, wishy-washy...
