1108: How to Think, Act, and Achieve Like an “A-Player” with Rob Monson

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🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Rob Monson reveals how professionals can become A-players—and what leaders can do to retain them.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The hard truth many leaders don’t want to accept

2) What A-players do differently from the rest

3) The simple trick to get a day back every week

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— ABOUT ROB —

Rob Monson, founder of Tenfold Advisors, is Utah’s leading business growth coach. A Scaling Up and Metronomics coach, he helps mid-market CEOs install disciplined systems that transform people, strategy, execution, and cash. His clients have driven Utah’s most founder exits at a 7X EBITDA multiple, 10X profit gains, Inc. 5000 honors, and award-winning cultures. Formerly with Golf Channel and 1-800 Contacts, Rob now shares practical scaling insights as Tenfold Biz Coach on TikTok.

• Tiktok: @rmonson12

• Website: TenfoldAdvisors.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Tool: Liz Wisemen Multipliers Assessment

• Website: The Systems Thinker

• Book: Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People, Revised and Updated Edition by Bradford Smart

• Book: Who by Geoff Smart

• Book: Mastering the Rockefeller Habits: What You Must Do to Increase the Value of Your Growing Firm by Vern Harnish

• Book: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, 20th Anniversary Edition by Patrick Lencioni

• Book: The Captain Class: The Hidden Force That Creates the World's Greatest Teams by Sam Walker

• Past episode: 030: Optimal Practices for Prioritizing, Hiring, and Relating with ghSMART’s Randy Street

• Past episode: 552: The Foundational Principle that Separates Good Leaders from Bad Ones with Pat Lencioni

• Past episode: 719: Liz Wiseman Reveals the Five Practices of Indispensable, High-Impact Players

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0:00.0	I ask everyone in my leadership teams to say, tell me the top five things that waste your time.
0:13.6	And they write them down.
0:15.0	And then I say, okay, how much of that could you automate, eliminate, delegate, or simplify it?
0:19.9	Most will come back with half a day to a full day of time savings, that they can redeploy.
0:36.1	That's Rob Munson.
0:37.3	He's the founder of 10-fold advisors where he helps mid-market CEOs rapidly scale their businesses and become more focused leaders.
0:43.3	Rob's also gained a huge following on TikTok, of all places, where he's known as Tenfold Biz Coach for sharing direct and actionable insights that anyone can use to become eight players. So you'll learn one, the hard truth many leaders don't want to accept. Two, what eight players do differently from the rest. And three, the simple trick to get a day back every week. And if you want a quick summary write-up of the actionable takeaways that Rob shared, and recommend you sign up up for the free Gold Nugget email newsletter found at
1:10.8	Awesome at Your Job.com. I'm Pete McItis. This is How to Be Awesome at Your Job. And now here's Rob.
1:21.3	Rob, welcome. Hi. Thank you, Pete. Thank you for having me. Well, I am so excited to hear your
1:26.5	wisdom. You are privy to a lot of
1:29.8	deep, high stakes, personal conversations, coaching executives and business owners. Can you give us a little bit
1:37.6	of context for those conversations? Yes. So I've been a business coach for eight years this month,
1:42.2	as a matter of fact. And what I do in my role is I coach CEOs and their leadership teams to help grow and scale their companies.
1:47.6	And I do that through helping them install systems and routines and behaviors that help them eliminate drama and focus on the right things.
1:55.1	Well, that sounds fantastic.
1:56.4	Eliminating drama and focusing on the right things are themes and powerful levers, it seems,
2:01.8	in terms of accelerating careers and results.
2:04.9	Yes, absolutely.
2:05.9	And one of the big things we focus on is initially, do you have 100% A player leadership
2:09.7	team and how do you get to what we call an A player leadership team?
2:13.7	And how do you make sure and can identify whether you have non-A players in your team?
2:17.7	And what does that look like? Well, I was watching your TikTok, and it's amazing. You have a tremendous
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