Level 10 Leaders

This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is from Megan Long of Second First, on why integrators need a clear end goal before they can build the plan.

Megan’s point is that the number one frustration for integrators in the second in command seat is not knowing what they’re working towards. The fix is to start with the exit: selling, an ESOP, or handing the business to the next generation. Even without an exit in view, a target valuation at five or ten years gives the integrator something to work backwards from.

Useful links:

Connect with Megan Long on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganclong/
Second First: https://www.secondfirst.com/
The Right Hand Roadmap podcast: https://www.secondfirst.com/podcast
Second First on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@yoursecondfirst

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Ryan Castle sits down with Darryl “DJ” Heffline, a manufacturing leader with 40 years of experience and author of “Shifting Gears in the Crossroads.” DJ’s first leadership role failed. His team hated working for him. The turnaround became his four pillars of trustworthy leadership: vulnerable, approachable, patient and caring.

DJ also explains the three questions everyone you do business with is silently asking about you, and why he answers them in reverse order. Plus his five essential steps for building a compelling case for change when you reach a crossroads.

Useful links:
Connect with Darryl Heffline on LinkedIn
https://darrylheffline.com

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This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is from Rachel Downey of Guide Studio, on the quiet inner voice most leaders talk themselves out of listening to. Rachel spent 18 months crying on her drive to work at a business she loved, and could not explain why. Her point is that the quiet voice usually knows before you do, and the noise around you is what stops you hearing it. Acting on hers meant building the next generation of leaders who could run the business without her.

Useful links:

Connect with Rachel Downey on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/racheldowney/
https://www.rachelbizguide.com/

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Ryan Castle sits down with Sam Yankelevitch, LinkedIn Learning instructor and author of five books, whose courses have reached more than a million learners globally. Sam trained as an industrial engineer, and his conclusion after decades in manufacturing is blunt: the standard you pass by is the standard you set.

Sam also walks through the five step commitment framework, who, what, by when, plus what if and what's next, and explains why the what if clause predicts reliability better than anything else. Plus what accountability without intimidation looks like day to day.

Useful links:
Connect with Sam Yankelevitch on LinkedIn
samyankelevitch.com

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This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is from Scott Anderson, former US Army Major and former UN humanitarian leader, now COO at Real Property Management Express, on why the way you receive bad news determines whether anyone brings it to you. Scott's point is that consistency shows in the hard moments, not the easy ones. Anyone can take good news well. Staying calm when the news is bad is what makes people feel safe enough to come to you early. He carries a line from his grandfather: in an argument, the first person to start yelling loses.

Useful links:

Connect with Scott Anderson on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottanderson1967/

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Ryan Castle sits down with Liane Davey, team effectiveness adviser and author of Thoughtload. Liane's argument is that leaders keep solving the wrong problem. They strip back the workload and nothing moves, because what is flattening people is thought load, the invisible overload nobody else can see.

Liane also explains conflict debt, why avoided conflict compounds until it erupts, and why conflict should feel like flossing rather than root canal. Plus the wicked, wounded and witness behaviours that let anyone change a team from any seat at the table.

Useful links:
Connect with Liane Davey on LinkedIn
lianedavey.com

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This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is from Jen Hamilton of Hamilton COOs, on how to win back someone's trust after you have got it wrong. Jen's sequence has five parts: let them vent without cutting in, validate what they felt without necessarily agreeing, own the specific thing you did, apologise in a way that shows you understand the harm, then make a promise for something new. The step most people skip is the last one, deliberately checking back in so the other person can see the promise being kept.

Useful links:

Connect with Jen Hamilton on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferdawnhamilton/
www.HamiltonCOOs.com 

Sign up for free monthly roundtables with peers: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hamilton-coos/events

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Ryan Castle sits down with Kyle McDowell, author of the bestselling "Begin With WE" and a thirty year veteran of corporate America. Kyle led teams of 15,000 people and hated what he had become. His inner circle eventually told him the truth: they feared him more than they respected him.

Kyle also explains the ten WEs, the observable behavioural standards he wrote the night before addressing 50 of his leaders, and why they succeed where corporate values fail. Plus the three part discipline that makes them stick: set the standard, model the standard, hold the standard.

Useful links:
Connect with Kyle McDowell on LinkedIn
kylemcdowellinc.com

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This Level 10 Leaders Power Tip is from Gretchen Heinen, Founder and CEO of Authsnap Inc, drawn from her full episode, on getting the structure of a business right from day one. Gretchen's advice is to spend a couple of hours with a lawyer or a CPA before you build anything. A good attorney set up her cap table for the structure she would need five years out, so she could build from there. Founders go wrong, she says, by skipping that piece of the house.

Useful links:
Connect with Gretchen Heinen on LinkedIn
https://authsnap.ai/
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Ryan Castle sits down with Mike Ashby, founder of The Breakthrough Co and Level 10 Leaders, on his latest Forbes piece about why AI coaching fails without human intelligence. Mike's argument is simple: AI coaches are a supplement, not a replacement. Content is only 10% of what changes behaviour.

Mike also walks through the 10/20/70 model and why generic AI gets stuck in the 10, what the great training robbery costs organisations, and how they built Dr Mike AI to sit inside a human system rather than replace one. Plus what happens when a leader coach disengages.

Useful links:
Connect with Dr Mike Ashby on LinkedIn
AI Coaching Fails Without Human Intelligence, Forbes

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