{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Standard","title":"Michael Montelongo on the H.A.V.E. Leader & Geopolitical Risk","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":3310,"description":"Raymond Hall interviews Michael Montelongo about forging an elite standard through service, West Point, and military experience, and about developing a “North Star” leadership orientation in which “good enough” is unacceptable because decisions affect lives, careers, and families. Montelongo outlines his leadership philosophy—learn, grow, serve, contribute—and explains that performance is driven by TLC (talent, leadership, culture) led by a HAVE leader (humility, authenticity, vulnerability, empathy), emphasizing vulnerability as the hardest trait because it is often misconstrued as weakness. He describes how trust is built through character, transparency, honesty, and integrity, and offers tactics like listening first, clarifying expectations, and creating psychological safety. He shares integrity guardrails (mirror, headline, mentor, legacy, role-model tests), warns of rationalization and the loss of truth-tellers as tripwires, discusses grounding routines, including gratitude, and argues that leaders must integrate geopolitical risk into strategy as globalization’s assumptions fade and economics becomes a battlefield.00:00 Welcome and Guest Intro01:15 Forging an Elite Standard05:25 North Star Under Pressure09:17 HAVE Framework Explained17:48 Vulnerability and Self Awareness22:43 Building Trust Fast29:46 Integrity Guardrails Tests34:58 Tripwires and Truth Tellers40:16 Personal Resilience Routine44:07 Geopolitical Risk Playbook50:12 Defining The Standard53:52 Final Thanks and Sign Off","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/2ylN3ZsFzHTjtBZ3grABx6wx9AjF4gH2WSXbgnDCwtY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85MDUx/NWI0NjIwYmQ0YjU5/MzNmYWYzNTQwYzUw/YjdlZi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}