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Moment #95 Epic Fails - All Care, No Responsibility Nov 17, 2024

Moment #95 // Working successfully in complex organizations requires collaboration. But you shouldn’t sacrifice strong accountabilities for the sake of collaboration.

When you don’t structure your team’s work program around single-point accountability, it’s hard to know who’s doing what.

Accountabilities become opaque, confused, and misunderstood… and performance suffers accordingly.

Most of the epic fails I witnessed in my corporate career were the consequence of shared or unclear accountabilities.

If you want to go deeper on this critical leadership capability, have a listen to Ep.230: Too Many Cooks.

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Live Q&A on Your Biggest Challenges: 30 minutes you can’t miss Nov 12, 2024

Episode #324 // Welcome to a special episode from our recent No Bullsh!t Leadership Live event in Sydney! Marty dives into the real, pressing issues leaders are facing today with his no-nonsense insights.

In this episode, he tackles questions on:

Managing a “Nike Boss”: How do you handle a boss who ignores resource limitations and expects you to “just do it”?
Effective Downward Communication: How can you ensure that strategic messages reach all levels and don’t get lost as they filter through the organization?
High Performers and Perfectionism: For leaders with team members who are incredibly driven but struggle with perfectionism, Marty shares strategies for guiding them towards consistent performance without compromising their standards.
Keeping Leaders Energized: Leadership is relentless. Marty discusses his personal approaches to maintaining energy and resilience without burnout.
Setting Minimum Standards in Challenging Cultures: How do you establish minimum acceptable standards in organizations where accountability is weak?
Preventing Complacency Among High Achievers: When setting a baseline, how do you stop high performers from becoming complacent?
Aligning Executive Teams and Boards on Risk Appetite: Boards and executive teams often differ on risk tolerance. Marty explores how to bridge this gap and foster alignment.
Motivating Teams with Purpose and Execution: How do you inspire and motivate teams by connecting them to purpose and focusing on brilliant execution?

There is genuinely something in here for leaders at every level!

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Moment #94 How To Really Make Delegation Stick Nov 10, 2024

Moment #94 // During my corporate executive career, not working at the right level was probably the most common problem that I saw holding leaders back, and it happens at every level – from front-line supervisors to CEOs of major companies.

Most leaders say they want to delegate more… to give their people more responsibility, and not have to do so much themselves… but even before those words have passed their lips, they manage to shoot themselves in the foot.

In this Moment, I give you my top tips for making delegation stick.

If you want to go deeper on this critical leadership capability, have a listen to Ep.211: Successful Delegation.

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How To Stop Missing Targets: Finding the hidden bottlenecks Nov 05, 2024

Episode #323 // Last week, we launched our No Bullsh!t Leadership Hub community, and it’s already firing on all cylinders.

For those of you who have joined, you may have answered the initial survey questions, some of which highlight the common problems that every leader faces.

One comment in particular, which was articulated beautifully by Sarah, really hit home. She said, “I think a big leadership challenge right now is capturing and communicating the nuances of what is slowing down progress, as well as utilizing data to set realistic goals.”

This is a great observation, and one that I see many leaders struggling with right now. So today, I pull it apart a little. This super practical episode is loaded with specific advice that you’ll want to bookmark and keep coming back to, including:

10 common root causes of slow progress, unexpected delays, and missed targets;
6 techniques for uncovering hidden bottlenecks; and
My foolproof 4-step process for understanding and communicating delays, and resetting expectations with your stakeholders.

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Moment #93 Rising Above the Concrete Layer Nov 03, 2024

Moment #93 // Middle management jobs are the toughest jobs in any organization. You’re effectively the meat in the sandwich, and the senior leadership might see you as just another person in the concrete layer.

You get pressure from above, and resistance from below, creating incredible dissonance. This can increase your stress levels to the point where you’re downright miserable.

How do you rise above the concrete layer? How do you make your objectives clearer? How do you stop the never-ending tug-of-war between the allegiance you have to your boss, and the support you want to give to your people?

If you want to learn how to remove the dissonance-induced stress from your middle management role, have a listen to Ep.74: The Curse Of the Middle Manager

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The FREE Leadership Hub That Will Transform Your Leadership Game Oct 29, 2024

Episode #322 // This week, I’m announcing something big: The No Bullsh!t Leadership Hub, our brand-new free community built for leaders who are serious about cutting through the noise and creating real impact. Em and I have been doing this podcast for over six years, and it’s time to take it to the next level by giving you a place to connect with like-minded leaders.

In this episode, I share why community is a game-changer for growth, how our Member-Led Podcast Club will help you bring NBL principles straight to your teams, and the powerful ways you can use this new hub to push your leadership to new heights.

You’ll also hear how to access exclusive resources, leadership challenges, and even VIP perks.

This is your space to take action, have the conversations that matter, and build a network of leaders who ‘get it’.

So, if you’re ready to elevate your game, hit play and find out how to join us in The No Bullsh!t Leadership Hub.

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Moment #92 Getting Your Boss To Agree To Your Plan Oct 27, 2024

Moment #92 // Whenever you need approval to allocate resources, you’ll most likely need to convince your boss that it’s a good idea.

All organizations have scarce resources, and have to allocate these resources carefully.

The only thing I know for sure about your business is that you will never have enough time, money, and people to do everything that you’d ideally like to do.

So, you have to do the things that give you the biggest bang for buck.

If you want to learn how to wow your boss with a watertight business case, have a listen to Ep.126: Selling Your Proposal

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Friends, Family, and Favoritism with Pat Lencioni Oct 22, 2024

Episode #321 // In the final part of my conversation with leadership expert Pat Lencioni, we take a quick dive into the complex dynamics of working with family and close friends in a business setting. Whether you're leading a family-owned company or managing close-knit teams, this episode is packed with insights on how to set the right boundaries while nurturing important relationships.

Here’s what you’ll take away from this episode:

Balancing Standards for Family: Learn how to navigate the fine line between holding family members to higher or lower standards than other employees, and how to set clear expectations.
Favoritism vs. Fairness: Pat shares actionable insights on how to deal with perceptions of favoritism without compromising your values or relationships.
Friendly, Not Friends: Discover the importance of maintaining professional boundaries while building connected, caring relationships at work.
Avoiding Nepotism: Understand how to avoid the common pitfalls of nepotism while still holding your family members accountable, and why openness and vulnerability are key to making it work.
Managing Workplace Relationships: We also explore the complications of romantic relationships in the workplace, how to manage the grey areas, and why setting clear boundaries is essential for leadership success.

If you're dealing with family in your business or just want to avoid the pitfalls of overly close work relationships, this episode will give you some practical tools you need to navigate these tricky waters.

Tune in as we wrap up this enlightening three-part series with Pat Lencioni, filled with candid advice and leadership gold!

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Moment #91 What Does Engagement Really Tell Us? Oct 20, 2024

Moment #91 // You’ve no doubt heard the expression, Employee Engagement. It’s roughly equivalent to the age-old concept of job satisfaction, or JSAT. The big question is, does increased employee engagement improve performance?

It sounds like it should be true – as long as you believe that happy workers are productive workers. Unfortunately, I don’t! Most often, happy workers are just… happy!

If you want to find out more about the reality of leading employees to be happy, and to perform at their peak, have a listen to Ep.199: Employee Engagement

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Is Data Illiteracy Holding You Back? How to make better decisions Oct 15, 2024

Episode #320 // Was Lucy Letby wrongly convicted in her healthcare murder trial? We may never know… but what we do know is that her trial was plagued by serious flaws in the statistical evidence presented by the prosecution.

I find it just a little disturbing that the judge, lawyers, and jury were so innumerate, that they accepted the bogus statistics on face value.

This lack of numeracy is probably just as endemic in business! But everyone talks a good game, and it’s often difficult to see the glaring holes that lie just below the surface.

During my corporate career, I worked with a bunch of board directors, career politicians, and senior executives who exhibited a stunning lack of basic numeracy.

In today's episode, I review the cautionary tale of the Lucy Letby trial; I take a look at how to build a robust process for decision-making; and I finish with eight ways to overcome the scourge of data illiteracy.

Trigger Warning: Sensitive Content

This episode includes a discussion about the trial of Lucy Letby, which touches on distressing topics such as infant deaths and the handling of evidence in serious criminal cases. These subjects may be particularly difficult for listeners who have been affected by the loss of a child or cases involving medical or legal malpractice. Please proceed with caution and take care while listening. If needed, feel free to skip this episode.

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Moment #90 Can You Still Be Happy If You Don't Have a Purpose? Oct 13, 2024

Moment #90 // There’s a lot of talk these days about purpose… we’re indoctrinated with the notion that, if you don’t pursue your purpose, what you choose to do has no meaning or value.

I’m calling bullsh!t…

I didn’t find my true purpose until I was in my mid-50s – but in the years prior to that, I loved my life, and made a hell of an impact.

If you want to find out more about the reality of pursuing your purpose, have a listen to Ep.201: Finding Your Purpose

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5 Rules for Leading Through Change Without Losing Your Team Oct 08, 2024

Episode #319 // We are constantly inundated with media reports, LinkedIn blogs, and conversations around the water cooler about the amount of stress we face in today’s work environment.

What’s changed since I was a young leader at the dawn of my career?

The ability to disseminate information has far outstripped our ability to absorb it and make sense of it;
We are “on” for a much greater percentage of our day than we ever have been; and
At the same time, we’re dealing with major social and economic shifts, which make it even more difficult to know our boundaries, reducing our level of comfort, security, and confidence.

In this episode, I look specifically at how to lead your people through the never-ending waves of transformational change, so that you can keep them focused, and keep yourself sane!

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Moment #89: My #1 Hack for Overcoming Self-Interest Oct 06, 2024

Moment #89 // You can tell the character of a leader by watching what they do under pressure. Some choose to do what’s in the best interests of their team and their company. Others just let gravity take over, and head down the slippery slope of self-interest.

If you want to be a strong leader – a person of character – you need to work out how to overcome your self-interest.

I stumbled across an awesome hack many years ago that was pivotal for me in learning to put my own self-interest aside. In this Moment, I share that technique with you.

If you want to explore ways to tame your most fundamental behavioral driver, have a listen to Ep.125: Can You Coach Character?

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5 Reasons Why Your Strategy is Failing and What to Do About It Oct 01, 2024

Episode #318 // Peter Drucker, one of the founding fathers of modern management theory said, “There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

This highlights just how much of what our people do, doesn’t add any real value to the company’s performance.

You’ve no doubt heard me talk about value in the past — it’s the centerpiece of the No Bullsh!t Leadership framework, and it should be front of mind for every leader, every single day.

But this is a lot harder in practice than it might seem… and it starts way back at the strategic planning process.

Illogical leaps between planning steps, emotional attachment to the status quo, and misaligned incentives are a recipe for value destruction – and virtually every organization on the planet suffers from these ailments to some degree.

In this episode, I give you 5 surefire ways to get control back, and make sure your people don’t spin their wheels by working on things that ultimately don’t deliver value.

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Moment #88 Why Doesn’t My Boss Give Me More Direction? Sep 29, 2024

Moment #88 // When you get promoted, you may expect your boss to spend time with you to induct you, to explain what’s important in your new role, and to walk you through the nuances of the transition.

This rarely happens, if ever. But, once you understand the reasons why your boss doesn’t give you sufficient attention when you need it, you may be a little more forgiving.

You need to take control of the transition to the next level, if you want to ensure predictable success in your new role.

If you want to explore ways to take control when your boss isn’t supporting you as much as you’d like, have a listen to Ep.15: Stranded By the Boss.

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Leadership Confidence Is Crumbling… Here’s What’s Really Happening Sep 24, 2024

Episode #317 // Research from top executive search firm, Russell Reynolds, recently found that leaders’ confidence in their executive leadership teams (ELT) is falling: and this 3-year trend shows no signs of being reversed.

What drives this erosion of confidence in the people in charge? What are leaders seeing in their ELTs that makes them question whether they know what they’re doing?

We’re all aware of how rapidly the world is changing – generative AI is still in its infancy; global instability is increasing; and social change is happening faster than at any other time in human evolution.

If you’re already in a CEO or senior executive role, you’re no doubt struggling to cope with the rate and complexity of the change.

If you’re not, and you have aspirations to join the C-Suite, then you’d better start preparing, because it’s not looking like it’ll get any easier in the years ahead!

This episode explores some of the root causes of the decline in confidence in our executive teams, and offers some suggestions to combat this decline.

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Moment #87 When Overruling Your Team Is the Right Move Sep 22, 2024

Moment #87 // A “captain’s call” is a decision made unilaterally by a team leader without consulting colleagues, often resulting in a massive clusterf*#k.

In the majority of cases, captain’s calls are seen by their team members as being out of touch, nonsensical, and driven by self interest.

This begs the question: are there any situations where making a captain’s call is appropriate and, if so, what might those be?

If you want to work out when it might make sense to overrule a team member, or if you should cut your boss some slack when she decides to make a captain’s call, have a listen to Ep.49: When the Boss Overrules.

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The Secret to Aligning Talent with High-Impact Work with Patrick Lencioni Sep 17, 2024

Episode #316 // I'm releasing Part 2 of my interview with Patrick Lencioni today, where we're going to dive straight into how you can use his Working Genius assessment to unlock the full potential of your team!

If you’ve ever struggled with team members not being in the right roles, or felt frustration when your own work drains your energy, this tool is definitely worth checking out.

Here’s what you’ll get from this episode:

Learn how to leverage the six types of Working Genius to align your team members with tasks that suit their natural strengths.
Understand why focusing on each person’s “genius zone” can massively boost productivity and team morale.
Hear real-life examples of how leaders transformed their teams by shifting roles to match individual geniuses—and why doing this prevents burnout and job dissatisfaction.
Explore how to reorganize your team's work dynamically, so that everyone operates in a way that brings the most value to the organization.
Find out why it’s critical to stop expecting people to excel in areas that don't align with their strengths—and how to make smarter hiring and role-design decision

It's packed with practical insights that will help you and your team work smarter, not harder (and not in the cliché way!).

Join me, as Pat once again shares his insight and wisdom!

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Moment #86 The Truth About Performance Reviews Sep 15, 2024

Performance reviews seem to have fallen out of fashion in many companies, particularly those companies that focus purely on people’s short-term needs and wants.

This does your people a huge disservice, because they never gain real clarity on what’s expected of them, and whether their performance is in line with those expectations.

No performance review process is perfect and, like any tool, it can be incredibly valuable in the right leader’s hands, and incredibly destructive in the wrong leader’s hands.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can give people real clarity on their performance, have a listen to Ep.96: Performance Reviews.

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How to Find and Keep Rare Talent That Drives 800% More Value Sep 10, 2024

Episode #315 // I frequently mention high performers in passing, but I don’t often talk about how to find them, how to keep them, and how to get the most out of them.

Many teams never get to experience the joy of having a star performer in their midst. And the thought of leading a real superstar can be daunting… especially if you aren’t confident in your leadership ability, or if you don’t have the appetite to stretch every individual in your team.

Let’s face it, genuine high performers provide a stark contrast to some of your other team members, and many leaders aren’t prepared to face into the reality of that massive performance differential, let alone do something about it!

In this episode, I take a closer look at how to attract high-end talent, and how to liberate their rare capability and impact to create massive value.

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Moment #85 Achieve More with the Power of Layered Excellence Sep 08, 2024

Moment #85 // Enabling perfectionism creates all sorts of problems. Even though the quest for perfection sounds noble, in reality, it's mostly driven by fear of failure! It adds an enormous amount of time, cost, stress, and complexity to any piece of work, without any material improvement in the outcome.

A quest for excellence is infinitely more useful: be smart, make good decisions, and keep moving. This is why, instead of perfectionism, you should think about deploying layers of excellence – it will increase your likelihood of getting a near-perfect result.

If you want to take a deeper dive into overcoming the negative impacts of perfectionism, have a listen to Ep.285: When Profits Create Problems.

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The Silent Career Killer: Navigating the Dark Side of Office Politics Sep 03, 2024

Episode #314 // Politics exists in every organization. Some companies tolerate it more than others, and it’s not uncommon for ego-driven leaders to encourage poor behavior from their most ambitious people.

Leaders who tolerate or encourage political maneuvering will find that it has a direct impact on team culture, cohesion, and performance. But politics is so ingrained in human nature that it can be really hard to identify and neutralize.

Politics is the path that many leaders choose when they can’t deliver results… What they lack in ability, they make up for in ambition, so they find another way to climb the ladder… and that’s often by using politics to climb over the top of their unsuspecting peers.

This is just a fact of life, and the rough and tumble of office politics becomes more intense with every layer you move up.

The $64,000 question is, “How do you lead at your peak, and focus on the things that truly matter, without being blindsided by office politics?”

I begin the episode by defining clearly what a political player looks like, so that you can spot them more easily. I discuss how political slurs, no matter how outlandish, can outweigh objective reality. And I finish with some tips for building bullet-proof networks as a primary defense against political attacks.

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Moment #84: Can You Teach an Old Dog New Tricks? Sep 01, 2024

Moment #84 // At some stage during your career, you’ll no doubt find yourself in the position where you need to drive a turnaround in your team’s culture and performance.

When you’re faced with that proposition, it’s really important to recognize that you can’t expect the same people to do things in a radically different way.

If you want a culture change to be successful, the trick is to blend the best of the existing capability and culture with new ways of thinking, behaving, and performing.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how to handle your people’s personal issues, have a listen to Ep.46: The People Who Built the House Can’t Renovate It.

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You’re Not Behind: 4 Steps for Getting Out of Career Stagnation Aug 27, 2024

Episode #313 // We’ve all heard the stories about the people who started entrepreneurial ventures quite late in life, and found success at a mature age. If nothing else, this serves as a reminder that, no matter how many opportunities you think you may have missed, there will always be more in the pipeline… if you’re open to them.

There’s a lot we can learn from those who’ve gone before us, if we choose to pay attention and apply the principles to our own career growth and personal progression.

In this episode, I take a look at the mid-career stagnation problem. I’ve seen it hit many leaders in my time, and many of them haven’t got the faintest notion about how to get out of that rut.

I begin by looking at some examples of people who achieved real success quite late in life. I examine some of the advantages that more mature leaders have, as well as some of the unique anchors that hold them back. And I finish with four areas that you can focus on, in order to break the pattern of stagnation.

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Moment #83 When Personal Problems Spill Over Into Work (And How to Handle It) Aug 25, 2024

Moment #83 // Over the last several years, we’ve seen greater integration of our work and personal lives than ever before… some would even go so far as to say it’s unprecedented.

In the past, it was considered unacceptable to bring personal issues into the workplace. These days, though, we’re encouraged to bring our whole selves to work.

This has made the job of a leader much more complicated, and you need to be able to handle these issues confidently when they arise.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how to handle your people’s personal issues, have a listen to Ep.185: The Mental Health Minefield.

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Your 5 Hardest Conversations and How to Nail Them! Aug 20, 2024

Episode #312 // Last week I leaned into the more philosophical side of my content with my 12 hard leadership truths. This week, we’re back at the coal face with a very practical episode to help you nail the 5 hardest conversations you’re likely to face as leader.

This episode is super-practical… I go beyond my more general guidance on handling conflict to give you some nuanced tips for nailing each of the 5 different types of hard conversation that you’re inevitably going to be faced with as a leader.

I start with some overarching principles, just to make sure we’re all on the same page, particularly if you’re fairly new to my content.

Then, I dive right into the 5 hardest conversations. All of them are slightly different, so this could well be one of the most practically valuable episodes I’ve ever recorded.

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Moment #82 The 3 Keys to Real Transformation (And Why Most Fall Short) Aug 18, 2024

Moment #82 // Cutting through change-resistant behavior in any team is incredibly difficult, because the people who are supposed to be driving the change – the leaders below you – are the very ones who are most resistant to the change. Let’s face it, they have the most to lose.

This is why the number one predictor of successful transformation is your ability to shift the culture. The only way to do this is to set incredibly high expectations for the leaders below you – and that requires a superhuman level of energy, commitment, and resolve.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how to nail your next big change, have a listen to Ep.189: Successful Transformation.

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12 Hard Leadership Truths That Every Leader Needs To Hear Aug 13, 2024

Episode #311 // In this episode I cover 12 things that you’ll instinctively resist on your leadership journey. Not all of you will resist all of them, obviously. But I suspect that you’ll instinctively try to avoid or ignore at least a few of these principles.

There’s no doubt in my mind that these principles are rock solid. They’re like gravity… they operate the same way on all of us, whether we believe in them or not! And they will ultimately have a huge bearing on how successful you are, as a leader.

The episode is pretty simple… I outline each of the 12 hard leadership truths, one-by-one. I’ve also created a free PDF downloadable, so that you can keep a cheat sheet handy.

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Moment #81 How Can You Manage What You Can't See? Aug 11, 2024

Moment #81 // During the pandemic, work became performance art for many, as they pursued the goal of looking busy, rather than actually delivering real, value-adding work.

This wasn’t a particularly new innovation: there’s always been a fair share of people in the office who did exactly this—appearing to be busy while achieving little.

For leaders, it has definitely become trickier to identify and deal with these people than it was in the past.

How can you tell when someone is substituting the demonstration of their own busyness for real work that produces real value?

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you get greater visibility over your talent, have a listen to Ep.178: Visibility in a Remote World.

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3 Proven Strategies to Elevate Your Leadership Presence Aug 06, 2024

Episode #310 // Join the free bootcamp here! Over the last several months, a lot of leaders have told us that their companies are hunkering down, in a virtual promotion freeze… so, we poked around to see if there was any data to support these anecdotal observations, and came across an interesting statistic.

According to Bloomberg, of the 68 million white collar workers in the US, only 1.3% were promoted in the first quarter of 2024 — the lowest percentage in 5 years.

At times like these, it’s even tougher to stand out, which is why we decided to run a free 3-day bootcamp, 10x-ing Your Promotability, where I outlined my three fail proof strategies to deal with an ultra-competitive labor market.

In this episode, we replay Day 1 of the Bootcamp, which covers the first strategy — Elevate Your Leadership Presence.

Apart from a few interesting stories from my own career, I covered why your leadership brand is so important… and I gave you a practical tool to help you clarify and communicate that brand to the people around you.

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Moment #80 Why Most Leaders Fail at Hiring Aug 04, 2024

Moment #80 // Hiring really good people has always been hard. There’s serious competition for talent in many industries, and limitations in your potential candidate pools that arise from your geographical footprint, your industry, and the public perception of your brand.

But, even when you do get the right people to turn up at your front door, there are factors at play that may prevent you from achieving the best hiring outcome.

How do you ensure that you’re getting access to the best talent, and working out who’s the best fit for your team?

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can manage these complex issues, have a listen to Ep.237: Hiring Better People.

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Patrick Lencioni on Leadership Courage and the Future of Hybrid Work Jul 30, 2024

Episode #309 // We rarely do interviews on No Bullsh!t Leadership. But when Patrick Lencioni’s team reached out to us earlier this year, we jumped at the opportunity to have him join us on the podcast.

Patrick Lencioni is a global thought leader, who has established himself as one of the preeminent thinkers of our generation in the field of leadership and organizational behavior.

Pat has written more than a dozen books, which are incredibly easy to absorb and apply – some of the most practical content you’ll find. His seminal work, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, has sold over 3 million copies, making it one of the highest-selling business books ever written.

With such an impressive body of work, which he adds to every week with his two podcasts, At the Table and Working Genius, it was hard to know where to start. I decided to have an open conversation with Pat about some of the key issues that are facing leaders in 2024 and beyond.

Our conversation went for well over an hour, so this episode is the first part of the interview, where we discuss hybrid work and courage in leadership.

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Moment #79: Something Just Doesn’t Seem Right Jul 28, 2024

Moment #79 // Over the course of your leadership career, you’ll deal with people from all walks of life, many different cultures, and a range of socio-economic backgrounds… and you’ll see just about every dimension of human frailty.

As part of this melting pot,you’ll lead many people who have substance abuse and mental health issues. Learning to recognize and deal with these (without crossing a line) is often incredibly difficult.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can manage these complex issues, have a listen to Ep.97: Addiction in the Workplace.

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Responding In Pivotal Moments: The principles of mastery Jul 23, 2024

Episode #308 // It’s pretty rare that you’re faced with a decision that’s final or irreversible. And when one comes along, it’s normally pretty easy to recognize — you can sense the gravity of the moment, and the potential consequences that lie ahead.

But, as I look back on my experiences, some of the most significant decisions I’ve ever made, in terms of my life direction, didn’t seem to be that big a deal at the time. I made them using a liberal dose of gut feel, not suspecting for a moment how consequential they would ultimately turn out to be.

I recently had occasion to think about one of the most pivotal moments in Emma’s life, which also had a profound effect on mine. For those of you who don’t know, Em is my daughter. She’s also the producer of the No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast, and CEO of our business, Your CEO Mentor.

I was reflecting on the path that led us to where we are now, and it took me back to a brief but pivotal moment which, to tell you the truth, could have gone either way.

This episode is packed with examples, including Em’s story. I hope that it helps you to recognize these unexpected moments when they arrive in your career, and to respond accordingly.

You can never know, at the time, how critical these decisions will be… which is why you have to be prepared for every moment!

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Moment #78: Don't Fall In Love With Family Culture Jul 21, 2024

Moment #78 // Most successful founders face a problem as their business grows: the attributes that made them successful in the first place (e.g. innovation, hard work, tenacity, sales skills etc.) become obstacles to future performance.

Many unintentionally create a family culture. This might feel really nice, but it’s often mutually exclusive with the disciplined, constructive culture that ultimately underpins exceptional performance.

Whether you’re a business owner, or just trying to work out how to improve your team’s performance, don’t let a family culture impede your success.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can avoid the performance pitfalls of a family culture, have a listen to Ep.76: The Family Affair and Ep.180: The Family Culture.

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How to Build Confidence Quickly...for you AND your people! Jul 16, 2024

Episode #307 // There’s a lot to be said for having confidence. It’s an essential ingredient for any leader who aspires to lift their people to greater heights.

Without confidence, it’s difficult to effectively execute on even the most fundamental tasks that competent leadership requires.

Confidence is incredibly valuable… and you can’t fake it!

But, I feel as though it’s been getting a bad rap lately — confidence comes with a range of negative connotations, and those who are less confident often mistake it for insincerity, bluster, or even the inappropriate use of power.

My observation, made over many years operating at the highest levels, is that confidence is an essential ingredient of high performance leadership.

This is why it’s so important to focus on your own level of confidence, to understand what you need to do to increase it, and to know how to keep the dark side of confidence at bay.

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Moment #77: Don't Let Unconscious Biases Rule You Jul 14, 2024

Moment #77 // We’re all driven, to a greater or lesser extent, by unconscious biases. These invisible forces hijack our cognitive processes, and impair our decision-making capacity.

The only way to break free from the bonds of unconscious bias is to develop an acute awareness of the ones that affect you… especially when the pressure is on!

In this Moment, I look at five of the most common biases that I see play out, even in the most intelligent, capable, experienced executives I work with.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can avoid the fallacy of subconscious bias, have a listen to Ep.192: Avoiding Common Biases.

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The DNA of Peak Performance: Learning from the best Jul 09, 2024

Episode #306 // I’ve always been fascinated by people who transcend the limits of human performance, in any field. They lead the way, expanding our perspective on what’s possible and giving us something to aspire to.

When we look at the microcosm of our own team’s performance, we are the ones who get to choose the standard, so it’s useful to reflect on what each of us perceives to be exceptional performance.

Unfortunately, so many leaders bandy around the term “high performance” that it’s at risk of becoming a meaningless cliché.

How do we give ourselves a reality check? What do we use as a benchmark? How do we calibrate our efforts and set our own sights on what we might consider to be superior performance?

Stopping every so often to take a few deep breaths and look at what the best of the best are doing in their quest to achieve world class performance helps us to calibrate our own standards.

In this episode, I take a closer look at some of the truly exceptional performers who have redefined what’s possible — and I give you some step-by-step, practical guidance that you can action immediately, in order to move just that little bit closer to true leadership performance.

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Moment #76: Building a Team that Outlasts Others Jul 07, 2024

Moment #76 // If you want to build a team that outlasts others, you need each and every individual to be comfortable under pressure. And this starts with you. You set the tone for what happens in times of stress, pressure, and crisis.

It’s important to show your people the way, leading by example… but the prescription for them is exactly the same as it is for you. The golden rule is - Don’t let your people avoid adversity – build it into their day!

In this Moment, I give you 5 key tips to build the resilience that will enable your team to perform consistently, even under extreme pressure.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can build a team that will outlast others, have a listen to Ep.77: Can Your Team Handle the Pressure?.

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Should Leaders Buy Into Social Issues? Dodging the landmines Jul 02, 2024

Episode #305 // Over the last decade, there’s been a creeping trend for CEOs to weigh in on social issues, making their private stance very public.

This has now almost become an expectation of high-profile corporate leadership roles. But when CEOs air their personal views on social issues, it also anchors their company, brand, and every stakeholder associated with it, to that position.

Some of these are laudable, timely, commercially effective, and entirely consistent with the brand. Others range from the mildly inappropriate to the quantifiably disastrous.

When putting this episode together, I realized that even I’m a little conflicted on what the right approach might be in different situations. My intent is to take you on a journey through some of the complexities that leaders face when they choose to weigh in on social issues.

I start with a foundational concept — when a leader buys into a social issue, they buy in on behalf of all their stakeholders. I talk about the fact that not all issues are equal and, because motivation is such a critical ingredient, why not all motivations are equal.

I also promise that, if you stay to the end of this slightly longer episode, I’ll tell you a couple of great stories — stories of both stunning success and abject failure in the quest to tie the fate of a company to a stand on a hot-button social issue.

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Moment #75: My Failproof Formula For Speaking Confidently Jun 30, 2024

Moment #75 // Many people rate public speaking as one of their top fears. And even though they may learn to push through and suck it up, it’s only a rare few who actually manage to reach the point of mastery, where they completely transcend their fear.

In my experience, the primary skill you need to develop is not public speaking - it’s your ability to think on your feet.

In this Moment, I give you my fail proof exercise to build your confidence and competence in presenting – whether it’s just your own direct reports, or an audience of thousands.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can completely conquer your fear of presenting in public, have a listen to Ep.124 Overcoming Stage Fright.

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Hard Work Can’t Outpace Bad Strategy: Q&A with Marty and Em Jun 25, 2024

Episode #304 // There are many things that can go wrong between when we utter the words, “Let’s develop our corporate strategy” and the words, “How did we perform last year?”

I get a lot of questions about the strategy process, and one thing has become really obvious to me — very few people realize how many moving parts there are… not just in developing a sound strategy, but also in setting up the environment for successful execution of that strategy.

One of the biggest problems with strategy is that we tend to see it as a process — an annual ritual to be conducted, rather than a culture and mindset that requires senior leadership focus, 24 x 7 x 365.

Without this continuing focus, leadership teams can easily fall into the more obvious traps for young players… like investing to grow a product that doesn’t earn sufficient returns to cover its cost of capital.

But there are many more potential problems that conspire to derail your strategy well after the board has signed off on it. Problems like:

Not using a zero base to develop your work program;
Not truly understanding the drivers that deliver the greatest value; and
Allowing people to simply continue the activity that they’re most comfortable with.

In this episode, I explain why — as important as it is to understand — the theory of strategy is necessary, but not sufficient. As a bonus, I also reveal a new concept that I haven’t spoken about before: the productivity v efficiency multiplier!

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Moment #74: Conveying Key Messages With Clarity Jun 23, 2024

Moment #74 // Communication is an incredibly important element of leadership. How you talk to your team, how you deliver a presentation when you’re in a room full of important people, and how well you connect one-on-one with your direct reports can all have a huge bearing on your performance, and your personal credibility.

Knowing how to convey complex information in a manner that’s tailored for your audience is critical. In this Moment, I give you my 7 hot tips for communicating in a way that’s bound to make your message land!

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can reach your people with better communication, have a listen to Ep.195: Understanding Fuels Communication

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Navigating Wicked Problems: Compartmentalization is key Jun 18, 2024

Episode #303 // We know that problem solving is a critical part of leadership life — we spend a lot of time on any given day solving our own problems, and helping our people to solve theirs.

As you’ve no doubt learned, though, there are problems and there are… problems. It’s important to know how to leverage good problem solving techniques. But it’s equally important to manage your head space so that your biggest leadership problems don’t take over your whole life.

Wicked problems don’t come along every day but, when they do, they can totally dominate your emotional and psychological reactions to virtually everything.

Being able to compartmentalize will help you to keep things in perspective. You can’t let your biggest leadership problems consume you to the point where they detract from your ability to function properly, and enjoy the other aspects of your life.

In this episode, I explore the concept of wicked problems. I give a detailed example of the most wicked problem I faced as a CEO, and I finish with an extensive range of advice for compartmentalizing, so that you can cope with whatever problems come your way.

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Moment #73: Leading People To Do the Sh!t Work Jun 16, 2024

Moment #73 // I talk a lot about high performance. But what about the people who find themselves doing relatively mundane, repetitive, or low-skilled jobs?

We tend to imagine occupations like cleaners, fruit pickers, and production line workers when we think about mundane jobs. But many people in your team could also be doing some mind-numbing work, to fulfill the less-glamorous requirements of their role.

In this Moment, I give you my six hot tips for leading people to do the sh!t jobs.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can motivate your people to excel in the mundane and uninteresting, have a listen to Ep.151: Motivating Process Workers.

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7 Big Culture Killers: Don’t let mediocrity destroy performance Jun 11, 2024

Episode #302 // One of our dedicated listeners, Jonathan, observed that a number of culture killers can be described by words that end with the suffix, “-ism”. He rattled off a couple to get me started — nepotism, narcissism, and favoritism.

He suggested that I should create a podcast episode based on these, and other “-isms” that negatively impact team culture and productivity, so I’ve come up with my list of seven big culture killers.

This episode’s pretty straightforward — I explain each term, and the nuances of the impact it has on team culture, which is antithetical to high performance.

Any conscious effort you put into creating a constructive, high-performance culture will be silently undermined by these seven deadly sins. This can leave you feeling frustrated, wondering why your best efforts aren’t getting any traction.

But it’s incredibly easy to turn a blind eye to these culture killers, especially if they were existing cultural norms when you took over the team in the first place.

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Moment #72: Leading In Organization-Induced Chaos Jun 09, 2024

Moment #72 // It is common in most larger organizations to restructure from time to time, even though these restructures are often ill-conceived. Any value they might yield is dwarfed by the disruption, cost, and uncertainty they create.

Regardless, you may well be in a position where you have to execute on management intent, which means telling a bunch of people that their roles have been made redundant. In this Moment, I give you my 9 top tips for getting this right.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can navigate the toughest of all execution imperatives, have a listen to Ep.64: Restructures and Redundancies

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Bouncing Back From Major Failures: Not all mistakes are equal Jun 04, 2024

Episode 301 // A lot has been written and said over the years about the necessary role that failure plays in our quest for success. Anyone who has ever been successful, first had to endure (and bounce back from) failure!

It’s easy to reduce this process to a few pithy sayings:

“Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly!” (John F Kennedy)
“Failure is another stepping stone to greatness” (Oprah Winfrey)
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

These are all true… and, let’s face it, I’m a big fan of a good mantra to help me keep my head in the right space.

Then again, there are failures, and there are… failures! Making the little daily mistakes, learning from them, and correcting them is a part and parcel of your growth and development, in any walk of life.

If you’re a regular No Bullsh!t Leadership listener, you’ve probably already got a pretty good handle on this process.

But there are two situations where this doesn’t necessarily hold true:

When you keep making the same mistake repeatedly; or
When the failure is so big that it has a deeper effect on your psyche

Both scenarios can cause you to lose a tremendous amount of confidence, so working out how to come back from these failures is much harder… and much more important!

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Moment #71: How To Make YOUR Project Fail Proof Jun 02, 2024

Episode #71 // How often do we hear leaders claim that their project was delivered “on time, and on budget”. This is often wildly misleading, because it depends on your reference point.

They often neglect to mention how many project delays and budget blowouts occurred before the final targets were set… and they rarely talk about all the features that had to be removed as the project scope shrunk to fit the envelope of available money and time.

This Moment gives you an overview of the 7 things you need to do to make your projects fail proof.

If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can achieve predictable success with your next big project, have a listen to Ep.89: Are ALL Projects Doomed?

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Ep.145: Humor is Underrated

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Humor is ESSENTIAL: How to keep it light! May 28, 2024

Episode #300 // “If you can look on the light side of any crisis, remain positive and optimistic, and crack a joke or two, you'll be in a much better place to deal with whatever comes your way.”

Looking back on 300 episodes of No Bullsh!t Leadership, I’m incredibly proud of the body of knowledge that Em and I have created to help leaders all over the world to become better.

I’m also humbled that each of you tune in, week after week, putting in the hard yards to improve your leadership capability and confidence…using the tools and strategies to improve the way you lead.

The impact you’re having on the world by leveraging our content is incalculable.

I thought pretty carefully about what topic I would choose to mark this milestone, and decided it was time to revisit an important piece of the leadership puzzle, which is often overlooked.

About 3 years ago, I released Ep.145: Humor is Underrated. In today’s episode, I upgrade that assessment… I think that, these days, humor has become essential.

Even in the last 3 years, our collective senses of humor seem to have been further stifled, and we’re in imminent danger of completely losing the value of humor in the workplace.

Today, I give you five compelling reasons why you need to fight to keep the arrow of humor in your own leadership quiver! The culture and performance of your team depend on it more than you could imagine!

Source Material:

No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast:

Ep.197: Why Can't We Be Friends?

Ep.257: Your Leadership User Manual

Ep.229: Confidence, Arrogance, and Self-Doubt

McKinsey article:

Laugh More, Lead Better

Amazon book links:

The Humor Code

The Leadership Pipeline

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Moment #70: What Can Hindsight Teach Us? May 26, 2024

Moment #70 // There are any number of life lessons that I could absolutely have used earlier on, and lots of stuff that would have made me a better leader way sooner.

But, then again, with the benefit of hindsight and wisdom, I’ve come to realize that the depth and value of any lesson comes from the very fact that it’s hard fought and won.

If you learn by starting in the right place, going through the trial and error, (and, yes, a little of the essential pain), the lessons you learn stay learned... they are indelibly imprinted on your psyche.

If you want to hear my 7 life lessons, as well as the 2 critical leadership skills I developed later than I should have, listen to Ep.259: Things I Wish I’d Learned Earlier.

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Setting a Higher Standard: How everyone benefits! May 21, 2024

Episode 299 // “When you try to protect your people by setting a lower standard, you effectively rob them of their opportunity to improve, to thrive, and to build their confidence and self-esteem.”

Occasionally, I throw in a myth busting episode to challenge conventional leadership wisdom. This is my way of helping you to adopt the essential mindset of a truly successful leader.

One of the broadly accepted leadership myths is that any focus on individual performance detracts from the needs, wants, and (dare I say it) entitlements of your people. This is complete bullsh!t…

Conventional wisdom encourages us to let people work to their own capability and capacity, and not put any performance pressure on them… but this is a recipe for disaster, in so many ways!

Not only is it bad for the team and the organization — it’s also bad for the individuals who are struggling to perform!

In this episode, I put forward the case for setting a higher standard — not just to achieve better results, but also to do the very best you can to help the people who work for you! I look at some unlikely examples, from the decline in educational standards in the US, to the fall of communist Russia.

Everyone benefits from higher standards!

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Moment #69: Are You a Transformational Leader? May 19, 2024

Moment #69 // Virtually every senior leader finds themself executing a major change or transformation program at some point in their career.

It’s easy to get caught up in the hype – expensive consultants telling you what needs to be done… teams drowning in PowerPoint decks that explain the change… and a whole bunch of traffic light reports to convince you that what you’re doing is working.

I’m a simple man, and I like simple metrics. My favorite change barometer is, “How much push back am I getting from the old guard? Because they’re the people who want the world to stay exactly the way it was before I turned up?”

If it’s too quiet, then I know that nothing is really changing.

If you want to take a deeper dive into what it means to drive real change, have a listen to Ep.66: No Noise = No Change.

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Leading Through Resistance and Inertia: Q&A with Marty & Em May 14, 2024

Episode #289 // "Build an island of excellence within your team, even if the organizational culture resists change. Your leadership can thrive despite the barriers."

It’s often the case that the biggest impediments to improving your leadership performance are the organizational barriers that frustrate your efforts to be a strong leader. For example:

A boss who doesn’t want to change the way things are being done;
Irrational policies in critical areas like HR and finance;
Cultural barriers that provide resistance to any change; or
A lack of commitment to excellence and continuous improvement.

How do you lead through this, when it feels as though the people around you don’t necessarily want you to make things better? How do you improve your team’s performance, despite the barriers that exist in the organization’s DNA?

Your goal is to build an island of excellence in your team. This will free you from the constraints that seem to hold everyone else back. Even with a bad boss and a poor culture, there’s no reason why you can’t improve the way your team performs — control the controllables!

In this episode, Em helps me explore the issues of accountability, staff attrition, and peer resistance. We also talk about the constraints of your job… every role, every team, and every organization has them. The question is, can you live with them, or not?

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Moment #68: When You Lack Control, Use Influence May 12, 2024

Moment #68 // There are many ways to get your team to do things, and the type of power you use to get results is all-important. But, we rarely think about it.

Some types of power are more sustainable than others, so be careful to wield your leadership power deliberately, not just let it flow subconsciously, based on your mood of the day!

Being aware of power dynamics opens the door for you to wield real influence. You can’t be successful at senior levels unless you have the ability to influence your peers, and persuade them to unite with you to meet the company’s strategic objectives.

If you want to take a deep dive into my key principles for influencing your peers to help you get sh!t done, have a listen to Ep.39: Getting Results Without Control.

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The Big Work Lie: Being Indispensable WIll Save Your Job

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Making Yourself Indispensable: Will it protect your job? May 07, 2024

Episode #297 // “If you ever find yourself thinking, "How could the company possibly do without me?" Well, trust me, they'll work it out!”

For as long as I can remember, the business media has been awash with stories about the job market… how to get a job, how to keep a job, how to juggle your job with other demands, and how to climb the corporate ladder.

Since the Covid pandemic, it seems as though the volume of this advice has grown exponentially.

The most recent article to catch my eye, from the Wall Street Journal, discusses the concept of indispensability… it exposes the startling revelation that being indispensable might not necessarily provide you with the bulletproof job security that you thought it would.

For leaders, the indispensability landscape is very different. How should you approach this conundrum? What does it mean for you and your team?

In this episode, I take a look at the WSJ article, bringing some practical balance and perspective, and then I give you my 3 hot tips for making yourself invaluable, without trying to be indispensable.

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Moment #67: Life Principles That Guarantee Success May 05, 2024

Moment #67 // You’ll often hear people explain away someone else’s success by saying, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know!”

It’s easy to discount another person’s achievement by putting it down to their position of privilege… to believe that the only reason they made it was because they received a leg-up, or a head start… to succumb to the dangerous thinking that says, “they have something that I don’t”.

Don’t lull yourself into surrender. Don’t wait until you’re in a rocking chair, saying “I could have been a contender”… it’s never too late to work on building your success ecosystem!

If you want to take a deep dive into my 10 key principles of career success, have a listen to Ep.138: It's Not What You Know.

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Ep.74: The Curse of the Middle Manager

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The Comeback of the Middle Manager: A welcome trend! Apr 30, 2024

Episode #296 // "Middle management is the engine room of performance. This is where you are closest to the work, and you can make some real inroads into performance improvement."

I produced a podcast episode over 4 years ago, titled “The Curse of the Middle Manager”. So, when I recently came across an HBR article that signaled a resurgence in middle management roles, I figured it was time to take another look!

In many businesses, the role of the middle manager is by far the toughest. If you’re in that position now, you’ll know exactly what I mean.

You’re effectively the meat in the sandwich — the punching bag for both your team (who often don’t want to change the way they do things), and the senior leaders above you (who sometimes just want you to do as you’re told, without discussion).

Middle managers are often the most unloved (and unrewarded) people in an organization. But here’s the essential lens you need to look through: middle management is the petri dish in which senior leaders are identified, developed, and hatched.

I’m dedicating today’s episode to the middle manager, so that you can not just learn how to survive the cauldron, but to grow, thrive, and move onto bigger and better things!

No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast:

Ep.267: Management vs Leadership

Ep.53: Don’t Overdo Collaboration

HBR Working Knowledge article:

The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

Clay Christensen books:

The Innovator’s Dilemma

The Innovator’s Solution

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Moment #66: Preparing For the Next Level Apr 28, 2024

Moment #66 // Leaders who have been passed over for promotion are often told, “You need to be more strategic”... whatever that means!

There could be a number of possible explanations for this… but you can’t always rely on your boss to explain exactly what she means!

In this Moment, I give you a few suggestions for how you might be able to interpret this feedback, and use it to work on the things that will better prepare you for the next level.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.134: Being More Strategic.

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My Biggest Executive-Level Mistakes: And how I turned them into strengths Apr 23, 2024

Episode #295 // “We make mistakes, at each new level that we move to – it's an essential part of our growth and development. But the higher up you go, the bigger the impact that those mistakes have.”

One of my recent social media posts went viral (this one - 2.7mill views as of writing this), as I outlined the three biggest mistakes I made when I was finding my feet in my first few senior leadership roles.

The good news is that, once I was aware of them, I was able to put some strategies in place to fill the holes. This had the surprising outcome of turning some of my biggest mistakes into genuine strengths.

They became part of the rock solid foundations of my leadership repertoire and, for at least one of these weaknesses, it became an unqualified strength, which gave me a competitive edge over my peers.

In this episode, I take a closer look at the three biggest mistakes I was still making when I stepped into senior leadership roles, and how I managed to turn these around.

I’d love you to be able to do the same, without having to get quite as many scars as I did!

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Moment #65: Modifying Your Style to Reach Your People Apr 21, 2024

Moment #65 // If you want to be a great leader, you have to learn to read the play – to know when it’s appropriate to push one of your people harder, when it’s appropriate to work more closely with them, and when it’s appropriate to stand back and let them get on with it.

In this Moment, I take a look at Situational Leadership Theory (SLT). This model gives us guidance for how to adapt our style so that we have the best chance of getting through to our people, and enabling them to be successful.

Of course, the world isn’t clear cut… there’s 1,000 shades of gray, and every individual is different. Your style will never be as definitive as the SLT model might suggest. But it’s a really good mental frame to remind us to adapt our style for the individual, rather than pursuing a one-size-fits-all strategy.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.63: Reading the Play.

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Why Bosses Should Tell Employees to Slow Down More Often

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Is Faster Always Better? Apr 16, 2024

Episode #294 // “If you can create a culture that values momentum, you will almost always outperform teams that don't!”

I often talk about the need for speed. As a leader, placing a premium on forward progress is one of the most reliable tools you have to achieve execution excellence in your team.

If you can create a culture that values momentum, you will almost always outperform teams that don’t.

Teams that don’t value speed just seem to stagnate. I’ve seen lots of them over the years, and whenever that level of stagnation is present, it’s generally accompanied by other undesirable characteristics, like:

A high level of conservatism
A perfectionistic culture
Low productivity
Lack of challenge between team members
Knowledge hoarding
Lack of initiative and innovation
Decision-making by consensus
Over-indexing on process, and under-indexing on results

That’s why I was interested to read an article a little while back in the Wall Street Journal, which was titled, Why Bosses Should Tell Employees to Slow Down More Often.

It led me to wonder if there’s a case for deliberately slowing the tempo of the team, and under what circumstances that might make sense?

In this episode, I share some of my experiences on the virtues of speed, momentum, and forward progress. I take a good look at the findings of the WSJ article. And I offer my suggestions for the areas where I think speed is essential, and where it might be better to tell your team to back off and cool their jets.

Source Material:

Wall Street Journal article:

The Guardian article:

Sacking, revolt, return: how crisis at OpenAI over Sam Altman unfolded

Asana article:

What is Agile Methodology?

London Business School study:

The motivation of mission statements: How regulatory mode influences workplace discrimination

No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast:

Ep.266: What the Best CEOs Do

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Moment #64: Does Your CEO Have the Stomach for Change? Apr 14, 2024

Moment #64 // Many CEOs and senior executives talk a good game when it comes to culture change and transformation… it’s almost expected. But, even though they might make the right noises, it doesn’t necessarily mean they have the commitment to set a higher standard, or generate the level of momentum it would take to lead the change successfully.

Pretty much every senior leader says they want a constructive, high performance culture. But very few can clearly articulate what this means… and even fewer are prepared to do what it takes to affect any lasting change.

It doesn’t mean they’re bad people, or even that they’re ineffective leaders… What it does mean is that many senior leaders are only prepared to go so far in the quest for culture change. It’s the elephant in the room that no one really talks about.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.37: The CEO Wants Culture Change… or does he?.

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Ep.231: Talent Management

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Leading High Performers: It’s harder than it looks! Apr 09, 2024

Episode #293 // “I look at my high performers with one thought in mind: What will it take for them to get to the next level?”

When you focus on setting a high standard for performance, it’s easy to fall into the habit of managing the exceptions — to focus on the people who fall behind, or don’t meet the minimum standard you’re trying to preserve.

The old saying that the squeakiest wheel gets the oil is as true in the leadership context as it is in every other aspect of life!

When people don’t perform to the required level, it’s only natural to want to help them… to coach, guide, and motivate them, so that they can perform successfully. So you can spend a hell of a lot of time and energy focusing on people who, quite often, have absolutely no interest in lifting their performance to meet your expectations.

And, while you’re busy focusing on the under-performers, it’s easy to forget about the people in the team who are self-sufficient… the ones who just get the job done… the ones who don’t suck your time and energy, because they consistently do things the way you expect them to.

We’re quietly grateful for the ones who don’t constantly demand our attention, but this often leads to an unintended consequence: a few of these reliable people are genuine high performers, and neglecting them costs you way more than any of your under-performers ever could!

In this episode, I start with the critical question, “Do you know who your high performers are… really?!”; I then give you some surefire ways to lead your team so that you get the most from your best; and, of course, I give you a few traps for young players that you should try to avoid.

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Source Material:

No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast:

Ep.240: The Talented Jerk

Amazon book link:

The Halo Effect

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Moment #63: Playing the Long Game With Suppliers Apr 07, 2024

Moment #63 // Times are tough and, when the pressure is on, it doesn’t take long before companies start to squeeze their suppliers in an attempt to find cost savings.

Unfortunately, your suppliers are facing exactly the same pressures you are. Their costs are rising too, and they’re experiencing the same difficulty in finding and keeping their best people.

Knowing how to manage your suppliers for optimum long-term benefit is critical, especially as you seek to outsource more and more of the company’s non-core work. If you squeeze your suppliers too tight, they’ll end up cutting corners. Remember, you can outsource the activity, but you can’t outsource the risk!

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.221: Managing Supplier Relationships.

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Ep.186: Your Personal Leadership Audit

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Crafting Your Leadership Identity: Q&A with Marty and Em Apr 02, 2024

Episode #292 // “In team sports, “leading from the front” means a completely different thing than it does in business.”

There are a number of elements that contribute to your leadership identity. Many leaders let their identity form organically, without much conscious thought or planning. That’s fine, but there’s an enormous amount of upside to be captured, if you choose to be deliberate and methodical in your approach.

For every leader, regardless of level, industry, company size, or location, there are a number of foundational aspects of leadership that require a level of competence… but only if you want your people to thrive and perform, that is!

Because every individual is different, the way you interpret and apply these fundamentals may also be vastly different. The best leaders understand how to apply their unique style, personality, and values to a framework of strong leadership that’s guaranteed to produce extraordinary outcomes.

How deliberate are you in crafting your leadership identity? Are you thoughtful about how to integrate your own style into the tried and trusted foundations of high-performance leadership? Or are you, like many leaders, happy to leave it to chance?

FREE Resource we recommend in this episode:

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Moment #62: Who's Running the Show? CEO or Board? Mar 31, 2024

Moment #62 // The board of directors is increasingly seen as the accountable body for ensuring ethical, responsible behavior from companies. But we still seem to be witnessing some pretty spectacular failures in corporate governance.

To me, this isn’t at all surprising. The board has very little influence over what the management team does on a day-to-day basis.

Boards have limited control over what really goes on. I’m sure that many professional directors will disagree with me on this… but that would most likely be a reflection of their ego, rather than reality.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.248: The CEO and the Board.

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Ep.185: The Mental Health Minefield

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Real Leaders Keep People Safe: Physically, mentally, and psychologically Mar 26, 2024

Episode #291 // “The boundaries between our work and personal lives have shifted, and leaders need to deal with the fallout.”

When I began my corporate executive career, the only concern leaders had for safety was to ensure that people working in dangerous environments didn’t get seriously injured or killed.

Then, there were a lot of businesses that didn’t even need to think about the word “safety”, because they were predominantly white-collar, office-bound enterprises.

For most of my senior leadership career I worked in industrial businesses:

Where people worked at dangerous heights, and in confined spaces;
Where big machines moved with velocity; and
Where, heat, energy, and dangerous gasses could combust with explosive force.

The world has moved on quite a bit since then. These days, what it means to keep people safe (and just how far your duty of care extends) has evolved dramatically. I’ve found that my grounding in the principles of physical safety leadership has been invaluable in meeting these evolving challenges.

These days, when we talk about safety, it’s normally couched as SHE (safety, health and the environment), and it covers everything from personal wellbeing, physical and mental health, and psychological safety, right through to ensuring a company leaves the smallest possible footprint on the communities in which it operates.

In this episode, I take a fly across the top of the safety domain, and talk about the role that you play as a leader in keeping your people safe — physically, mentally, and psychologically.

Source Material:

No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast:

Harvard Business School faculty profile:

Amy Edmondson

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Moment #61: Do Your People Know What You Want? Mar 24, 2024

Episode #61 // What if your people knew exactly what to expect from you? What if they understood your style, the objectives that drive you, and the things you value the most?

If you want your people to be really clear on what you’re after, developing your own Leadership User Manual can be a simple but effective way to lay out the ground rules, and establish your expectations in an unambiguous way.

This could save years of trial and error, and give your people a clear path to thriving under your leadership (and delivering the performance you’re really chasing)!

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.257: Your Leadership User Manual.

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Ep.289: Improving Your Promotion Prospects

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Stakeholder Mastery: Moving from chaos to control Mar 19, 2024

Episode #290 // "The best leaders do what's needed to master their stakeholder ecosystem, taking it from chaos and unpredictability to control and alignment."

In last week’s episode, I outlined the 10 key ingredients that contribute to your promotion prospects. In doing so, I realized that, after almost 300 full-length episodes of No Bullsh!t Leadership, we hadn’t yet produced one that deals specifically with the key discipline of stakeholder management. Well, this is it!

In today’s complex organizational structures, the amount of influence you can wield (and, therefore, your ability to achieve results) depends on how well you build your most critical relationships.

As you move into more senior roles, your ability to identify and influence key stakeholders becomes increasingly important. If you don’t pay attention, your relationships are likely to be chaotic and unpredictable — and this directly impacts your performance.

The best leaders do the work to master their stakeholder ecosystem, taking it from chaos and unpredictability to control and alignment.

In this episode, I explain how to avoid the pressures, the politics, and the failures that ultimately eventuate when relationships are left to chance.

I walk you through how to identify and classify your key stakeholders, how to build their trust, and how to make every engagement deliberate and methodical. I also give you some strategies for escalation, which I know you’ll find incredibly useful.

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Moment #60: Getting Help Without Breaking the Bank Mar 17, 2024

Moment #60 // I’m a big believer in avoiding the problems that inevitably emerge when you become too isolated, or spend too much time cocooned in your own little world.

There’s no end to the number of consultants out there who hold themselves up as experts, and promise to make your business better in oh-so-many ways. How would you know which options are likely to give you real value for money, and which are likely to be an expensive waste of time?

The management consulting market is segmented quite clearly, but can still be quite difficult to navigate. In this Moment I give you a feel for its complexity, and a few rules of thumb for how to bring expertise into your organization, without breaking the bank.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.220: Management Consultants.

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Ep.243: Credibility: the Hallmark of Great Leaders

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Improving Your Promotion Prospects: Getting to the next level Mar 12, 2024

Episode #289 // “In the absence of your ability to handle pressure at your current level, your boss is going to think twice about promoting you”

Although every episode of No Bullsh!t Leadership is peppered with practical guidance on how to improve your leadership confidence and performance, I’ve never given you the specific recipe for improving your promotion prospects — until now!

In this episode, I lay out a holistic inventory of the things that contribute to your promotability.

As you listen, you can make a mental note of the areas where you think you have a pretty good handle on things, and the areas where you may still be a little weak, or need to focus more attention.

I’ve managed to condense my thinking into the 10 key areas that affect your promotability. I go into each one in turn, in just enough detail to describe clearly what that area is and, wherever possible, I provide you with links to the podcast episodes in our back catalog that give a more in-depth treatment of that particular area.

If you really want to get serious about improving your promotion prospects, download our free PDF companion resource, which will enable you to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses through the lens of what your organization values most.

And, if you’re a business owner, don’t skip over this one, whatever you do! It’s an essential checklist of the precise capabilities, attitudes, and behaviors that you’re looking for in the people you’re hiring.

Resources mentioned in the episode....

No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast:

Ep.2: Building a High Performing Team

Ep.228: Resilience Myths

Ep.24: Building Organizational Capability

Ep.7: Working at the Right Level

Ep.134: Being More Strategic

Ep.39: Getting Results When You Don't Have Control

Ep.182: What Is Strong Leadership?

Ep.168: Political Sabotage at Work

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Moment #59: Accountability First, Collaboration Second Mar 10, 2024

Moment #59 // Collaboration is one of the big buzz words of 21st century leadership. But the concept of collaboration in business dates back to the 19th century, as an underpinning feature of the theory of the firm.

Although there are a lot of benefits to collaboration, the pendulum has swung too far. We’ve devolved into decision-making by consensus, and management by committee.

The alternative is to empower your decision-makers with strong, single-point accountability. If you focus on collaboration first, you’ll end up with an all care no responsibility culture where results are poor. But if you put accountability first, and collaboration second, you may just unlock the best of both worlds.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.215: Results or People? Which is more important.

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My Recent Epic Fail: Controlling the controllables Mar 05, 2024

Episode #288 // “After almost 62 years on this planet, you'd think I'd know better – and I kind of do – but it doesn't mean I always get it right.”

We all know what to do, for the most part. Each day when we wake up, we can either choose to do it, or not do it. If we choose to not do it, then our brains quickly come to the rescue to tell us why that’s the best decision under the circumstances — this is rationalization, and we all master it at a pretty young age.

But, no matter how hard we try to convince ourselves, deep down… we know! It niggles at us — we can’t avoid the feeling that comes with the subconscious fallout of not doing the things we know we should.

Leadership is like this! One thing I was able to master during my corporate career was the discipline of doing what needed to be done as a leader, without hesitation. And I was able to do it with commitment, energy, and integrity. When I look back, I’m very proud of how I conducted myself as an executive leader, for the most part.

But on the rare occasion, the dog eats my homework too! I mastered my leadership discipline long ago — but why haven’t I mastered these identical principles in every other area of my life? They’re so obvious… I’ve used them in so many areas… and I’ve experienced the deep satisfaction and success from the hard work I’ve put in.

Yet still, I find myself dedicating today's episode to a recent epic fail in my choices. I took my eye off the ball, and didn’t control the controllables. And now I’m paying the price.

I start this episode by telling my sad tale of woe, and then I give you a simple but powerful process, which I hope will help you to identify and control the controllables in your life.

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Moment #58: Putting Your People First Mar 03, 2024

Moment #58 // Conventional wisdom tells us that we have to put people before profits… that if we look after our people then, in turn, they will look after our customers, and the business will thrive.

But the problem with conventional wisdom is that, even though there’s always at least some grain of truth to it, it’s easy to oversimplify, to rationalize, and to misinterpret.

The people before profits mantra is one of the great oversimplifications of leadership. If we did put our people first, does that mean we should simply satisfy their immediate wants or, instead, to act in their best long-term interests?

Nothing is ever as straightforward as it seems. If you really care about your people, you’ll think a little more deeply about the implications of your leadership – on all of the stakeholders you serve, not just the ones close to you, whose approval you desperately crave.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.215: Results or People? Which is more important.

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Ep.1: Respect Before Popularity

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The Pressures Leaders Face: It’s different at every level Feb 27, 2024

Episode #287 // “It's way easier just to roll your sleeves up and fix something, than it is to put in the hard work of leadership to lift someone else's capability.”

As a leader, you face daily pressures which are quite different from the pressures that confronted you when you were a carefree individual contributor, responsible only for your own work.

The type of pressure, and its intensity, depends on a number of things: the sector you’re operating in; the organizational culture; the competence and demeanor of your boss… the list goes on.

But each level of leadership has pressures that are fairly common across the board, irrespective of other factors. Obviously, the pressures you faced as a front-line supervisor will be very different to the pressures you’re going to face when you become CEO of a large global business.

In this episode, I examine the pressures that you’re most likely to be facing at the level you’re operating at now. I can’t offer definitive answers, because of the complex factors at play - the permutations that determine your individual circumstances are almost limitless.

The value in this episode comes from your enhanced ability to identify, name, and understand the pressures you face. This’ll enable you to more effectively tap into our catalog of 300+ No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes.

Em and I started this business to improve the quality of leaders globally, and in the last 5+ years, we’ve produced a vast body of knowledge, which you can access absolutely free, to help you handle virtually any challenge that comes your way.

No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes for new leaders:

Ep.7: Working at the Right Level

Ep.19: Execution for Results

No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes for senior leaders:

Ep.132: What Do CEOs Do?

Ep.54: Managing the Board

Ep.39: Getting Results When You Don't Have Control

No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes for mid-career leaders:

Ep.74: The Curse of the Middle Manager

Ep.162: Managing Up

Ep.208: Breaking Into the C-Suite

Ep.156: Managing Your Ambition

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Moment #57: Change Only Hurts When It’s Irrational Feb 25, 2024

Moment #57 // Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is often summarized as: the survival of the fittest. But, in fact, Darwin’s conclusion was that those who survive aren’t necessarily the fittest – they are the most adaptable. As a leader, one of your most valuable characteristics is your capacity for change.

Change is constant. But many of us don’t cope with it particularly well. We often struggle to understand the change that we’re asked to adapt to in our work lives… and what we don’t understand, we fear.

If change isn’t rational, it can leave a workforce cynical and disengaged. This is labeled as change fatigue. But even when the intent and substance of the change is sound, it’s often undermined by poor leadership.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.119: Change Fatigue.

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The Accidental Leader: It’s the most common variety Feb 20, 2024

Episode #286 // “While one in four people in the workforce have managerial responsibilities, very few have actually been trained. 82% of leaders are accidental.”

Many people in leadership positions were promoted because they were good at their jobs — their technical jobs. When ambitious professionals want the status, the power, and the money that come with career advancement, they have to accept that leading other people comes with the territory.

With little leadership training, and even less desire to lead, they become ‘accidental’ leaders. So, I was interested when I came across an article in Fortune magazine: Nearly all bosses are ‘accidental’ with no formal training—and research shows it’s leading 1 in 3 workers to quit.

The fact that the vast majority of leaders and managers don’t receive any formal training isn’t particularly surprising… and the fact that workers are disgruntled with their managers is even less so.

It’s easy to read the headlines and accept them without question. In this episode, I take a peek behind the curtain to get to some better root cause analysis, and come up with some strategies that you can use to improve your leadership capability — with or without the formal training.

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Moment #56: Making the Most of the Feedback You're Given Feb 18, 2024

Moment #56 // We talk a lot as leaders about how to give feedback, and it takes many years of experience to actually get good at it. What we don’t talk about nearly as much is what to do when we’re on the other side of the table!

Receiving good quality, helpful, accurate feedback is essential if you want to reach your performance potential. If this is true, then why are we so averse to receiving feedback?

Learning how to receive and implement feedback is a critical skill for leaders who want to be their best… the downloadable resource from Ep.116 has everything you need to know!

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.116: Receiving Feedback.

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"This has been going on for years". Inside Boeing's Manufacturing Mess

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When Profits Create Problems: What can we learn from Boeing? Feb 13, 2024

Episode #285 // “If you make decisions in isolation, you're likely to miss the implications of those decisions on the whole ecosystem, and this is often where the cracks begin to appear.”

Like many of you, I’ve done quite a bit of flying over the course of my adult life. I’m not a nervous flyer at all, but I’m always interested to see what’s happening in the world of commercial aviation.

This bumper episode is a mini case study on Boeing, which has been in the news again recently – for all the wrong reasons. Another mid-air incident in January (which, fortunately, didn’t result in any serious injuries) has thrust the aircraft manufacturer back into the spotlight.

Some of the contributing factors can be traced back to decisions that were made decades ago. There are some important lessons in this for everyone, regardless of the industry or country you’re working in.

In this episode, I explore some important questions:

Do Boeing’s problems stem purely from corporate greed?
If not, what other forces are at work?
Does a perfectionistic culture deliver the best results?
How do you improve a company’s commercial performance, without sacrificing safety and reliability?
What components of your value chain should you seek to outsource?
Is it possible to effectively transfer risk to a supplier?

You won’t have to deal with issues that are this public or dramatic very often, but if you can learn from the Boeing experience, it may prevent you from stepping on some of the same landmines.

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Source Material:

Wall Street Journal article:

The Atlantic article:

What's Gone Wrong at Boeing

Reuter’s article:

Boeing 737 Max9 door plug bolts appeared to be missing on Alaska Jet, NTSB says

No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes:

Ep.95: The Joys of Outsourcing

Ep.31: Don't Shoot the Messenger

Wikipedia Profiles:

Alan Mulally

Boeing Commercial Airplanes

Spirit AeroSystems

Theranos

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Moment #55: Do You Want To Be Right? Or Successful? Feb 11, 2024

Moment #55 // Being right isn’t everything – it’s just a good start.

Many leaders like to position themselves as “the smartest person in the room”. And there’s a lot to be said for superior intelligence. But you have to know how to use your intellect to get the best possible outcomes from your people.

To excel as a leader, you have to go way beyond your pure intellectual horsepower, and enter the nebulous world of emotional intelligence and human connection!

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.84: Being Right Isn’t Everything.

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Giving Your Boss Feedback: How honest should you be? Feb 06, 2024

Episode #284 // “There are very few bosses who will say “no” when asked if they’d like feedback. But even though they might say “yes”, you have to read the play – do they really want to hear it?”

I spend a lot of time and energy helping leaders to build their capability in giving feedback to their people: how to engage them in difficult conversations; how to review their performance; how to know when it’s time to say goodbye to someone who isn’t performing.

Let’s face it, if you want to be even mildly competent as a leader, this is a core skill. It has a technical element (of course) but, even more important are the psychological and emotional elements.

In this episode, I flip the script to look at how to give feedback to the people above you. How can you give feedback to your boss, in a way that is respectful and direct? But more importantly, in a way that gives you a high chance of success — that is, your boss actually listens to you!

I cover how to tell if your boss is receptive to feedback and, if so, how you earn the right to provide it. I explore the role of the trusted advisor. And I give you a practical, seven-step process for delivering feedback to your boss that you can download for free by clicking here.

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Moment #54: Great Leaders Are Great Negotiators Feb 04, 2024

Moment #54 // We all think we know how to negotiate. After all, our negotiating skills are honed from birth, as we tussle with our parents to try to convince them to do what we want them to.

Despite this, I learned a number of years ago that my negotiation skills were not what I thought they were. I was humbled in a fairly straightforward mock negotiation at business school. But what I learned in the following weeks equipped me to go on to negotiate and win several large contracts, worth billions of dollars in revenue.

All great leaders are also great negotiators – developing this skill will put a critical arrow in your quiver as you go up through the ranks.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.75: Negotiation Fundamentals.

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Trusting Your Team: Are you making this mistake? Jan 30, 2024

Episode #283 // “If your people trust and respect you, there's nothing you can't say to them.”

When we talk about trust in the context of leadership, it’s normally about how to get your people to trust you! And, of course, this should be a critical focus for leaders at every level.

But today’s topic runs a little deeper: how much trust should you give to the managers who work for you?”

Regardless of your org structure or the size of your team, at least some of your direct reports are bound to tell you that you should give them unconditional trust — to give them the benefit of the doubt, in every situation.

This raises a number of important questions: should your trust be unconditional? When should you choose not togive someone the benefit of the doubt? Should you trust every person equally?

In today’s episode, I begin by explaining why trust has to be both given and earned. I explore how to deal with opinions, assertions, and unsupported claims in your leadership team. And I finish with some guidelines for making your interventions feel like they are trusting enquiries, not overbearing micromanagement.

Source Material:

LBT:

No Bullsh!t Leadership episode:

Ep.112: Is Gut Feel a Thing?

Wikipedia Profile:

W. Edwards Deming

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Moment #53: Push Back or Burn Out! Jan 28, 2024

Moment #53 // The factors behind the increasing levels of work stress that people are experiencing are many and varied – it’s a complex issue. What is pretty clear, though, is that more and more leaders are reporting that they are burnt out.

But, if you apply a couple of relatively simple and practical remedies, you will be able to protect yourself from burnout. SImple? Yes! Practical? Definitely! But easy? Absolutely not!

It’s not easy because you have to learn to push back, and set some clear boundaries. And you can’t do that unless you have a deep understanding of how your team can maximize the value it delivers.

Once you can answer that question, you have to learn how to say “no” to everything else.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.61: Learning to Say "No".

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Celebrating 5 Million Downloads: Unpacking our podcast’s 5 success principles Jan 23, 2024

Episode #282 // “A lot of the more senior leaders reject No Bullsh!t Leadership, because the higher up they go, the more they have to lose – they have to protect their position, their image, and their identity.”

Our first episode of No Bullsh!t Leadership was produced in August 2018. This week, we achieved a major milestone - 5 million downloads of the podcast.

To be perfectly honest, Em and I are pretty ordinary when it comes to celebrating success… and I often cringe at the thinly-veiled, self-congratulatory posts that seem to dominate LinkedIn and some of the other social media platforms.

But I think it’s important to mark this milestone by standing back, and reflecting on what this really means, in the context of our purpose: to improve the quality of leaders, globally!

So, instead of just pumping up our own tyres, in this episode Em and I have distilled a number of success principles that we learnt on our path to 5 million. We want this behind-the-scenes look to inspire you in your own leadership journey – it’s amazing what you can achieve with a blank sheet of paper and some ridiculously bold aspirations!

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Moment #52: Building Professional Credibility Jan 21, 2024

Moment #52: Building Professional Credibility // Whatever you try to achieve as a leader relies, at least to some extent, on your credibility. If you have strong personal credibility, it makes everything you do inordinately easier.

Credibility galvanizes your team… it instills confidence in the people above you… and it ultimately becomes an integral part of your leadership brand. Without it, every yard you manage to move forward feels… hard. Credibility is the hallmark of all great leaders.

It's the type of credibility that’s founded in their competence, their values, their leadership approach and, ultimately, their results. And everyone around them notices—you can feel the difference!

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.243: Credibility: The Hallmark of Great Leaders.

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Building Team Morale: Confident, Secure, and Enabled to Perform Jan 16, 2024

Episode #281 // “If you focus on trying to make your people happy instead of providing the opportunity for them to develop their self-esteem, you're missing the point.”

Team morale is built through proactive commitment and focus. It doesn’t just happen.

One of the great misconceptions of leadership is that, if you make people happy, they will perform better and team morale will be high. Although this is possible in theory, it is highly unlikely to happen in practice.

One of our listeners once made a comment about what it takes to build morale, in a military context:

“Soldiers with high morale aren’t ‘happy’: they’re confident, secure, and enabled to perform. They’re not well-fed, rested, and kept out of harm’s way.”

Building morale requires strong leadership. The object of the exercise is to give your people the opportunity to experience long-term satisfaction and fulfillment, which is a very different proposition from the short-term, sugar-hit happiness that most leaders focus on.

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No Bullsh!t Leadership episode resources:

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Moment #51: Presenting for Impact Jan 14, 2024

Moment #51// We’ve all sat in meeting rooms where we’ve been subjected to death by PowerPoint. For every leader, the ability to present information in a compelling, interesting way is your basic table stakes: it should be a vital element of your core leadership competencies.

The good news is, it’s never been easier to put together a great presentation to get your point across. These days, there’s no excuse for a poor presentation, so I want to share some basic tips, to help you reduce your likelihood of having an epic presentation fail.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.59: Epic Presentation Fails.

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Leading in 2024: What can we expect? Jan 09, 2024

Episode #280 // “The productivity decline isn’t just a flash in the pan: it’s a structural reset that we're all going to have to grapple with in the coming year.”

At the end of each year, I spend time analyzing a variety of sources to come up with a view on the range of possible outcomes for the year ahead—across business, politics, and society in general.

Without trying to make any fearless predictions, I like to have some sense of how the world is trending: trend is your friend!

Using sources as diverse as The Economist, the Wall Street Journal,The Australian Financial Review, The Atlantic, Fast Company, and even Wikipedia, this episode provides a consolidated view of what awaits us, as leaders. You can find the links to all the sources I use here.

I start at the macro end of town, and then circle in on some of the issues that you’re likely to face with people, culture, and performance in 2024. And it’s the only time in the year that I provide anything resembling political commentary on the No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast!

This is more than just an invaluable, curated guide to help you navigate the coming year: it’s also guaranteed to make you the most interesting person at any dinner party!

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Moment #50: The Inter-Generational Divides Jan 07, 2024

Moment #50 // Many young leaders who have to manage older, more experienced workers find the whole process quite intimidating. Equally, older leaders who may have gotten by in their careers using a more directive leadership style, are confounded by their inability to lead millennials to do what they want them to do!

If you’re a leader, you may have workers from four different generations in your team… from Baby Boomers, all the way through to Gen Z. Although each of these generations has defining characteristics, the leadership principles remain the same.

It’s critical to treat everyone on their merits, and lead them by tapping into their individual motivations and personal drivers. If we start to manage people based purely on generational stereotypes, we’re bound to get it wrong.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.242: Leading Older Workers and Ep.51: The Millennial Dilemma.

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Crush Your Career in 2024 Jan 02, 2024

Episode #279 // “Most of us are highly rational leaders, and our instinct is to make the long-term planning process a purely intellectual exercise. But when it's done really well, it's much more than this — they have to protect their position, their image, and their identity”

Do you want to start the New Year off on the right foot?

Forget the New Year’s resolutions… they rarely breed long-term success. A better alternative is to spend an hour or two taking on our free Crush Your Career Challenge. It will give you the framework to create a long-term plan, and use that to build your best year ever!

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Moment #49: Want To Be Successful? Pull Your Weight! Dec 31, 2023

Moment #49 // There are two types of people in the world: lifters and leaners. Lifters carry the burden for themselves and others… they take on more accountability than the average person, and they don’t rely on anyone else to make things happen.

And leaners? Well they’re happy to let the lifters do the work!

Anyone who’s genuinely successful (and I’m not simply talking about people with power, status, and money) is a lifter!

From the earliest available opportunity, you need to adopt the mentality and mindset of a lifter. Like everything in life, you get to choose your path, and make it happen… or not!

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.253: Lifters and Leaners.

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The Five Best Episodes of 2023 as Chosen by Marty & Em Dec 26, 2023

Episode #278 // We’ve been producing this podcast now for over five years and, as we traditionally do at this time of year, Em and I are taking a look back on the year of podcast content. We’ve picked out our favorite episodes for you to go back and listen to while you’re enjoying some downtime in the New Year.

We’ve had another cracking year at Your CEO Mentor: one where our global reach continues to grow! I’ve been living in the US now for over 2 years… Em’s daughter, Florence, is now walking and talking – a proper little human – and everything is going pretty much to plan.

But it’s not without its challenges! In last week’s episode, we reviewed our 2023 business performance, looking at the things that went really well, and the things that didn’t go so well.

You may have missed a few episodes in the last 12 months, especially if you’re new to the podcast. So, in an effort to make sure you still get to capture the real gold, we’ve curated what we think are some of our not-to-be-missed moments.

These episodes capture the essence of key leadership imperatives, like building your credibility, and knowing how to tread that fine line between confidence and arrogance! We know you’ll love this cheat sheet for getting the “best of the best” from No Bullsh!t Leadership.

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Moment #48: Building a Culture of Healthy Disagreement Dec 24, 2023

Moment #48 // One of the things that characterizes a high-performing team is the ability to withstand and harness the value that lies in healthy disagreement.

In this moment, I look at the example of a failed company that demanded their employees needed to be loyal, above all else.

In my book, loyalty means fearlessly telling the truth to the people above you, no matter what. But to them, it meant bowing to their authority and not challenging them in any way… particularly if they had bad or inconvenient news to deliver.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.31: Don’t Shoot the Messenger and check out my TEDX Talk, The Surprising Power of Constructive Conflict!

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Our Best and Worst of 2023: The YCM end of year stocktake Dec 19, 2023

Episode #277 // The end of year is a time of renewal. We all instinctively take the opportunity to reflect on the year just gone, and reset our expectations for the year ahead.

In this episode, Em and I do something we’ve never done before… we pull the curtain back on our business, Your CEO Mentor, and give you a window into our 2023 scorecard.

How did we do? What were the things we focused on that didn’t actually pan out the way we expected? Which things went really well?

We talk through our end-of-year stocktake, so you can see the level at which we assess the initiatives, how we think about our failures, and what lessons we take forward.

It’s the best and the worst of Your CEO Mentor in 2023! We’re going to examine our top 3 successes, and our 3 greatest failures...so buckle up!

Resources mentioned in this episode:

Our Business Accelerator Mastermind (next intake starts in March 2024)
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Moment #47: Are You Chasing Attributes, Or Competencies? Dec 17, 2023

Moment #47 // There are literally thousands of articles and posts written every week about the attributes of great leaders. Humility, Transparency, Fallibility, Integrity. Although it’s fun and interesting to muse on these attributes, they lack any real clarity.

If you actually decided that you wanted to take action to develop one of these attributes, where would you start? What habits and disciplines would you need to develop?

Rather than debating the merits of leadership attributes, we need to focus more on leadership competencies. What do leaders need to competently do, in order to successfully deliver value for their teams and companies?

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.25: The Roadmap to Exceptional Leadership.

I also recommend listening to Ep.229: Confidence, Arrogance, and Self-Doubt.

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THE ART OF ASKING: How to network, interview and negotiate with precision to land your dream job!

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Building Leadership Confidence: Small steps yield BIG results! Dec 12, 2023

Episode #276 // One of the biggest barriers to change, in any area of your life, is your own awareness of the size of the gap—that gap between your current state and your desired state.

And I’m no different to anyone else! I’ve struggled with this principle over the years in a number of different areas…

When I stacked on a few pounds after a running injury, I knew how much work it would take to get back to racing weight… and that became a barrier to starting my recovery process.

Often, the gap is so daunting that we feel like we don’t know where to begin. But in almost every case… we actually do! We just don’t want to face into it, because we know that, once we start, we have a mountain of work ahead of us.

In this episode, I take you through the process of not just starting, but mastering what you know you need to be doing, as a leader.

I simply give you a couple of leadership areas where most of you are probably underdone, and help you to work out both where to start, and how to keep momentum, by gaining the confidence that you will be successful… if only you can persevere!

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Moment #46: Do Your Own Job Dec 10, 2023

Moment #46 // As you transition through to more senior leadership roles, you’ll realize that you can’t continue to compensate for your people when they don’t deliver the results you want. You have to do your job, not their job.

There are all sorts of repercussions to dipping down, and not working at the right level. Like, not focusing on your own job; like, diluting the accountability model; like, robbing your people of the chance to grow. Doing your own job positions you to lead your people to exceptional performance.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.7: Working at the Right Level.

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When Should You Let Someone Go? Are Guenther’s days numbered? Dec 05, 2023

Episode #275 // One of the most common questions I field from our leadership community is, “Marty, how much time should I give someone when they’re not performing, before I make the decision to let them go?”

Like most questions in business, the answer is, “It depends”. Your job, as a leader, is to work out what it depends upon, and to position yourself to make a decisive judgment call in any situation.

In this episode, I take a look at the example of the Haas F1 Racing Team, and its principal, Guenther Steiner, who has led an underperforming team in a high-performance sport for almost 10 years.

I also discuss some of the dimensions of performance and behavior that you’ll need to think about when you’re deciding what to do with an under-performer.

But, most importantly, I give you one of the most valuable free resources I’ve ever produced: my six-step framework for making what are often incredibly difficult decisions about your people.

It’s never an easy thing to decide to let someone go, but if you stick your head in the sand when you’re confronted with an under-performer, your team will inevitably become mediocre: your poor performers will stay, and anyone decent who wants to be on a winning team will find other alternatives!

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Moment #45: It's a Marathon, Not a Sprint Dec 03, 2023

Moment #45 // With the sustained, relentless pressure of performing as a leader in today’s business world, combined with the expectation that you’ll also perform in every other area of your life, it’s incredibly easy to burn out.

That’s why it’s so important to have long-term strategies that make your life sustainable: strategies that, even when you hit the peaks of pressure that ebb and flow, you know how to manage your way through it.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.187: Avoiding Burnout.

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Taking Control of Your Future: Q&A with Marty and Em Nov 28, 2023

Episode #274 // Since releasing our new self-paced short course, Landing Your Dream Job, we’ve had a stream of questions from our leadership community about whether or not the course is applicable to them.

In this week's episode, Em joins me as we answer two of the most commonly asked questions, which deal with key aspects of the job search process:

“How do I network and utilize my mentors most effectively?” and;
“How can I determine which role is best for me?”

Your long-term career future is shaped by the decisions you make today, which is why you need to give yourself the best chance you possibly can of getting it right!

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Moment #44: Leading for Long-Term Success Nov 26, 2023

Moment #44 // If you’re in it for yourself, your people will never be in it for you. Ever.

Self-seeking leaders can’t bring out the best in their people, because it’s almost impossible to rally them to a higher purpose.

One of the keys to unlocking your people’s discretionary effort, and stretching them to perform at the next level, is that you have to subordinate short-term considerations for the greater good.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.29: Winning Without Self-Interest.

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Leadership is Never Black or White: 1,000 annoying shades of gray Nov 21, 2023

Episode #273 // In order to convey the No Bullsh!t Leadership principles concisely, I explain them in quite categorical terms—it has to be that way so that you can understand the principles sufficiently well to implement them.

But, as with everything in life, nothing is just black or white… there are exceptions, there are judgment calls, and there are 1,000 annoying shades of gray!

A CEO who I’m quite close to recently challenged my mantra of friendly, not friends, and I realized that, while I explain the core principles in black-and-white terms, the implementation is anything but that!

You might have heard me speak about other principles like:

Respect before popularity
Don’t dip down
Excellence over perfection
Simplicity and focus
Speed over accuracy
One head to palm one arse to kick

In this episode, I explore some of those shades of gray… some of the nuances of these critical principles. This should help you to understand how to put the principles into context a little better… after all, they live on a continuum, not in a simple binary relationship.

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Moment #43: Where Stress Meets Performance Nov 19, 2023

Moment #43 // We generally talk about stress like it's a bad thing. Putting people under stress is something that many leaders try to avoid. Why? Because, if you put people under stress, then maybe they won't like you anymore.

Instead, we choose to lean into our well-developed power of rationalization, and do everything we can to give ourselves a reason to not ask our people to stretch.

But, unfortunately, stress is a prerequisite for high performance…

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.148: Stretching Your People.

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How to Ask Excellent Questions: Nailing interviews, networking and negotiations Nov 14, 2023

Episode #272 // According to LinkedIn, 70% of the global workforce isn't actively job searching, but 87% are open to new opportunities.

This reflects a universal truth in the professional world – many are passively open to new job opportunities, yet they rarely actively pursue them.

It's a common trap that we see even the most ambitious leaders fall into: passively waiting, relying on people in their existing networks to approach them, or counting on that internal promotion that's 'just around the corner'.

If you have any ambition to climb the ladder, it's time to make a choice:

Are you going to remain passive, and let someone else dictate the pace and flow, or are you going to step into the void and take control?

If you're ready to increase the level of control you have over your career, this week’s episode is going to help you - a lot!

I’m really excited to share with you the replay of the live training Marty did earlier this week on the art of asking. If you want to ask better questions in high-pressure situations like interviews, networking conversations and salary negotiations, this is a MUST LISTEN.

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Moment #42: Why You Shouldn’t ‘Just Do It!’ Nov 12, 2023

Moment #42 // Have you ever questioned your boss about a particular task, and at the end of a brief exchange, he simply says: “Look, just do it, OK?”

Although I’m sure no one sets out to become a Nike boss, sometimes it’s simply the product of a leader being overworked… or not having sufficient information about why something needs to be done… or because explaining would be difficult and time-consuming… or because it may potentially put them in a situation of escalating conflict.

Nike bosses are hard to work for, so think carefully about how you handle these situations. Do you listen and debate when there’s pushback, or do you just pull rank?

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.149: The Nike Boss

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The Wellness Puzzle with Kristel Bauer Nov 07, 2023

Episode #271 // In today’s evolving world of business, there’s an ever-increasing focus on employee wellness. Mental health, which was a taboo subject until fairly recently, now has to be front-of-mind for every leader.

A leader’s duty of care for their people used to be confined to the workplace. Now, there’s an increasingly broad interpretation of a leader’s obligations to look after their people, which is much more holistic, and reaches well beyond the boundaries of the workplace.

And still, the vast majority of leaders have no training in psychology, and are ill-equipped to deal with many of the situations that inevitably arise.

This episode tackles some of the issues around employee health, wellness, and resilience, as they relate to business leadership… and to go really deep on this, I’ve enlisted the aid of wellness expert, Kristel Bauer, host of the Live Greatly podcast.

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Moment #41: My script for setting the standard Nov 05, 2023

Moment #41 // It can be a little daunting to take on a new role, especially when it's at a higher level than the roles you've previously held.

Whether you’ve been promoted internally, or appointed from outside the company, you need to set strong expectations right from the get go. It's really important to stamp your mark on a new role early.

People need to know what to expect from you… and the more clarity you can give them, the better.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.114: Making a Role Your Own.

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Squeezing the Juice from Innovation: Maximizing the value of creativity Oct 31, 2023

Episode #270 // Innovation is key to sustained performance. Whether we look at it from a company perspective, or at the level of countries and global economies, innovation fuels productivity and growth.

We’ve seen this over and over throughout the centuries, where a technological or scientific breakthrough has driven new levels of prosperity that were previously unimagined.

We now live in the most affluent times in human history. Our life expectancy and our standard of living is massively higher than it’s ever been.

Innovation, at the market level, drives much of this prosperity. And at the level of the individual firm, innovation is an essential ingredient of competitive advantage.

Squeezing every last drop out of the innovation lemon requires trade-offs, and if you don’t make these trade-offs consciously, they’ll be made for you.

This episode explores some of the key trade-offs that leaders need to make when trying to stimulate innovation, while still maintaining control, including:

Long-term v short-term value
Process control v creative adaptation
Centralized v decentralized decision making
Accountability v collaboration

Source Material:

United Nations Poverty Statistics

Change to Life Expectancy (50 Years)

Macrotrends Research

Patent Filings

Ranking for Top Companies

No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes:

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Ep.203: Defending Against Disruptive Innovation

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Moment #40: How to REALLY get results Oct 29, 2023

Moment #40 // Simplicity goes hand-in-hand with focus. We all try to do too much, for all the right reasons, and with the best intent. But, more often than not, this is incredibly counter-productive.

As a leader, value, performance, and forward momentum all rely on having a crystal clear focus on the right things. But this is hard to achieve, because perfectionism hides in complexity. Even though The Pursuit of Perfection sounds noble, more often than not it’s simply masking the fear of getting something wrong.

Your leadership mantra has to be Excellence Over Perfection. Otherwise you're going to end up working tirelessly on something that doesn't make any real difference.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.222: The Power of Simplicity.

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Performing After Promotion: From peer to leader Oct 24, 2023

Episode #269 // One of the positive (and virtually inevitable) outcomes of improving your leadership confidence and capability is that your opportunities for promotion start to come thick and fast. And there’s a reason for this: as your leadership skill improves, so do the results that your teams achieve.

But when you've already achieved best-in-class performance, you’re expected to know what you're doing in any given situation. The people who promote you assume that you'll continue to be largely self-sufficient. But that's not always the case when you're thrust into an unfamiliar role.

This episode outlines the essential steps for transitioning to any new role, with special focus on the common scenario of being promoted to lead the team that you were once part of.

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Moment #39: Does Your Education Determine Your Opportunities? Oct 22, 2023

Moment #39 // Formal education is important to establish a baseline for your career. It’s like buying a ticket to the dance. But management and leadership education comes later in your career, and it’s often valued very differently, depending on where you live.

In Australia, an MBA is entirely optional… in the US, it’s essential if you’re serious about progressing to the heights of corporate America.

No matter where you live, though, education in all its forms is there to support your development so that you can perform better. That's the bottom line.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.21: Education vs. Experience.

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Ep.265 Leadership's Most Underrated Ingredient

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How To Get Through To Your People: Use this golden question Oct 17, 2023

Episode #268 // We know that every individual is unique, and despite all the conventional wisdom about how to motivate people, everyone is completely different in regard to what drives them.

In my experience, you never really know what’s going to switch the lights on for someone. You just have to keep trying, over and over, to reach every single person. This means you have to use different (sometimes novel) techniques, and varying levels of pressure.

When you see a breakthrough, it’s priceless… it’s worth every moment you’ve spent, and every ounce of energy you’ve put into it.

But you also have to be OK with putting in the time and energy and not achieving a breakthrough… because, unfortunately, that’s the more common outcome!

This episode begins unconventionally, with a story from the hit TV series, Breaking Bad. I then recount one of the early wins in my career, when I was able to get through to someone. And I finish with 5 practical tips for reaching your people.

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Moment #38: Does More Information = Better Decisions? Oct 15, 2023

Moment #38 // Is the virtually limitless supply of cheap, instantaneously-accessible information making it easier for us to make decisions? And are those decisions any better than the ones we made 20 years ago?

Malcolm Gladwell says, “We clutter our decision-making process with extraneous information in the hope that it makes us better off in the end. It's a fool's game.”

This moment reminds us to focus on what's most important. Too much information just makes it harder for us to process the information we actually have.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.217: Trusting Your Instincts.

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You’re a Leader Now: Not Everyone is Going To Like You

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Management vs. Leadership: What’s the difference? Oct 10, 2023

Episode #267 // Every so often, we produce an episode of No Bullsh!t Leadership that challenges conventional leadership wisdom. I call them my 'myth buster' episodes, and in the past, I’ve taken on some of the most widely accepted axioms:

Challenging conventional wisdom is tricky, because there’s always at least some measure of truth to it. But we can’t allow ourselves to fall into the habit of accepting these statements as truisms, without considering them a little more rigorously. If we do, we run the risk of believing our own bullsh!t.

In this episode, I challenge the notion that management and leadership are separate disciplines: one being aspirational and virtuous, the other being somehow lesser.

This is a very practical episode, where I briefly explore the traditional concepts of leadership and management, and then bring them to life with a number of real world examples that demonstrate how intertwined and inseparable the two concepts truly are.

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Moment #37: Shifting Mindsets for Inclusive Hiring Oct 08, 2023

Moment #37 // There's no doubt that systemic bias exists in hiring - but sometimes, even with the best intentions, it's really difficult to improve diversity. Quite often, you’re simply dealing with a shallow pool of talent.

Entrenched beliefs and attitudes at lower levels of an organization act as a barrier to progress - not just for women, but for any minority group that's not the typical appointee.

The homogenous, safe candidate is effectively ‘green lit’ all the way through the process. It's sometimes hard to find the right candidate, who will improve outcomes by offering greater diversity. But it's even harder to change the mindset of the decision-makers who occupy positions of relative power, at all levels of an organization.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.202: Eliminating Selection Bias.

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What the Best CEOs Do: Achieving Aspirational Performance Oct 03, 2023

Episode #266 // Some of the most impactful transformation work that I saw in large industrial firms came as a result of McKinsey’s involvement: everything from procurement to capital productivity, and operational performance.

Last year, three McKinsey partners published a book titled, CEO Excellence: The six mindsets that distinguish the best leaders from the rest.

After examining more than 20 years’ worth of data on 7,800 CEOs from 3,500 public companies, they conducted detailed interviews with 67 high-performing CEOs and synthesized their findings in this book.

The CEOs interviewed include household names like Mary Barra (GM), Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Herbert Hainer (Adidas), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kaz Hirai (Sony), and Satya Nadella (Microsoft).

In this episode, I look at some of the conclusions that were drawn in the book, and discuss them in a way that provides an enlightening summary, from my humble perspective. My hope is that this will help you transition to the most senior ranks of leadership.

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Moment #36: Is Your Team Addicted to Crisis? Oct 01, 2023

Moment #36 // Well-run businesses can be boring. They don't experience frequent crises and they don't encounter surprises at every turn. Why? Because the leaders understand risk, and they plan accordingly, avoiding the majority of disasters that other companies routinely face.

Poorly-run companies thrive on crisis management and firefighting. Once this becomes the predominant culture, people become comfortable living in a break/fix cycle.

There's never any real focus on eliminating the root cause of the problem. And there's no leadership drive to reduce the risk that something might fail in the first place. This is a bit like covering a melanoma with a band-aid.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.167: Getting Ahead of the Next Crisis.

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Leadership’s Most Underrated Ingredient Sep 26, 2023

Episode #265 // Em and I work our butts off every day to produce high-quality, practical leadership content that you can apply immediately, to improve your team’s capability and performance.

And, even though we talk about the emotional, psychological, and mental barriers that have to be overcome to achieve leadership excellence, what I don’t often talk about is the personal investment in the relationship capital that makes all this possible.

You may have heard me talk about the need to establish a high level of trust with your people, and to have boundless empathy (tempered with the strength to do what needs to be done, because you’re courageously committed to getting the absolute best possible outcomes).

But what it boils down to, in very simple terms is this: if you aspire to be one of those rare individuals who can move from being a competent leader to a great leader, it takes something more—a deep sense of caring for your people.

This is the ingredient that unlocks your ability to do the really hard work of leadership!

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ImpactEleven website:

ImpactEleven

Seth Mattison website:

Seth Mattison

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Moment #35: Roadmap to the C-Suite Sep 24, 2023

Moment #35 // There are many ways to end up in the C-suite. You can just choose to work hard, and wait for your promotions.

But, in larger organizations, this can take many years. And, at each new layer, you're in competition for the next spot above you with a bunch of other smart, ambitious people from both inside and outside your organization.

Even though I’d never hold up my own career path as something you should try to emulate, there are some interesting learnings to take from it. Interestingly, some of my best career moves were horizontal shifts—they were my springboard to the CEO office.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.208: Breaking Into the C-Suite.

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The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control

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Controlling Without Micromanaging: Getting the balance right Sep 19, 2023

Episode #264 // I read an article in the MIT Sloan Management Review, titled The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control, which outlines how to get the best results from the innovation activities your company undertakes. The moral of the story is, nose in, fingers out!

This led me to think more broadly about the concept of autonomy v control, in particular how it relates to optimizing both performance and employee satisfaction.

If you give your people too much autonomy, you risk wasting a lot of effort doing the wrong things… if you exert too much control, you fall into the trap of micromanaging, which introduces inefficiencies and demotivates your people in the process.

I learned throughout my career that balancing autonomy and control isn’t just an esoteric discussion: understanding and executing the principle is a critical leadership imperative that will either enhance or degrade the results you achieve.

In this episode, I look at the fundamental trade-offs between autonomy and control; I share a little about my journey to increasing control, without becoming a micromanager; and I give some really practical tips for striking the right balance with each individual in your team.

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Wikipedia Entry:

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Amazon Book:

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Moment #34: The Power of Transparent Leadership Sep 17, 2023

Moment #34 // They say that the best disinfectant is sunlight, and I'm a huge believer in that principle. If my direct reports in CS Energy heard it once they heard it a thousand times: transparency is everything.

But just how much transparency should you give to your people? Issues of trust, accountability, confidentiality, and context all play a part in how much transparency it’s reasonable to offer. Like many areas of leadership, it can be a complex balance!

I wrote an article on this subject for Harvard Business Review earlier this year, which is worth a read. It’s titled How Transparent Should You Be With Your Team?

You can also take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.207: Leadership Transparency.

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How I Keep Learning: My 5 Hot Tips Sep 12, 2023

Episode #263 // After speaking to a group of Executive MBA students last week, I had pause to reflect on my career journey, my educational choices, and what I considered to be the determinants of my modest success to date.

If I really distilled the key things that have helped me to grow rapidly over the years, what would they be? I’ve often said that leaders are learners, but you could spend a lot of time these days consuming information, without getting traction: and by traction, I mean gaining the wisdom and insight that would differentiate you as a leader.

Although I wouldn’t recommend to anyone that they try to emulate my career path, by the same token I think I’ve managed to maximize the potential of my learning opportunities over the years.

These learnings made me better, and I guess that’s really the only yardstick you can use—what’s the relative improvement in you. It’s not about anyone else, it’s about taking responsibility for becoming better over time. If you’re a leader, your people’s welfare will depend on it!

In this episode, I give you my top 5 tips for maximizing your learning opportunities, so that your leadership career can thrive.

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Moment #33: Overcoming the Need to be Liked Sep 10, 2023

Moment #33 // Why is it so difficult to get over the need to be liked? Because it’s completely ingrained… it's programmed into all of us. It's part of our DNA and it's controlled by our reptilian brain. It's an instinctive response.

But, counterintuitively, to be a competent leader you have to overcome that fundamental evolutionary urge.

Putting Respect Before Popularity requires a huge amount of empathy, which is why it’s so important to have a highly-developed EQ. Isn't it ironic that the road to higher empathy winds its way straight through the mire of conflict, challenge and accountability?

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.206: It's STILL Respect Before Popularity.

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Don’t Let Your Career Stall: Q&A with Marty and Em Sep 05, 2023

Episode #262 // Really good people get stuck in their careers, for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes, it’s obvious why it’s happening to them, and other times it’s a little more perplexing.

We get questions from our leadership community all the time relating to career progression, and they come from all levels—even C-suite executives who want to break into their first CEO role:

What do hiring managers look for?
What foundational behaviors and capabilities do you need?
How do you become “more strategic”?

In this Q&A episode, we take a deep dive into some of the factors that are going to put you on the fast track to promotion and career progression.

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Moment #32: Emotional Resilience in Corporate Chaos Sep 03, 2023

Moment #32 // I went through some incredibly disruptive events during my corporate career - and it's fair to say that some of them pushed me to the edge of my personal capacity.

Despite the personal toll, when I look back I’m so grateful that I was able to experience those situations. I never felt that there was anything I couldn't ultimately handle, and the accelerated learning that I took from each situation really turbocharged my career.

I couldn't have achieved anywhere near what I did if I was leading people in a warm, stable, and comfortable environment.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.224: Leading Through Major Upheaval.

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Do You REALLY Understand Value? The bedrock of team success Aug 29, 2023

Episode #261 // The central element of the No Bullsh!t Leadership Framework is value. It should be the primary focus of every leader, at every level, in every organization. Value first… that’s it!

Although we automatically think of financial value, value can be created in many different forms. Your imperative, as a leader, is to understand which of the things your people do genuinely create value, and which things simply generate activity for its own sake.

If you can manage to align the work that creates the most value for your company, with the things that benefit your people individually, you will absolutely turbo-charge your team’s performance!

This episode dives into the world of value, outlining the key principles of value delivery, describing what a value-driven culture looks like, and exposing some of the common organizational barriers to value creation.

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Moment #31: The Anatomy of High Impact Decisions Aug 27, 2023

Moment #31 // How comfortable are you when making “high-impact” decisions? You know, the ones that really test you… the ones that scare you... the ones that you know can potentially have serious consequences if you get them wrong.

You don't have to be the CEO of a Fortune 100 company to make high-impact decisions. The founder of any small business has to make decisions every day, many of which can potentially make or break their business.

No matter how big or small the decision, using your experience and judgment to put it into context is vital.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.216: High Impact Decisions.

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Setting the Bar: Raising the standard of leadership excellence Aug 22, 2023

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Moment #30: Why Do Leaders Believe Their Own Bullsh!t? Aug 20, 2023

Moment #30 // Why are such vast numbers of senior leaders so prone to believing their own bullsh!t?

There are a bunch of underlying (but observable) factors, which we’re all subject to, that push us to believe our own bullsh!t. It takes discipline, self-awareness, and insight to overcome them, and to rise above the facade.

This moment looks at four of the key psychological drivers, and how they operate on our subconscious mind.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.143: Believing Your Own Bullsh!t.

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The Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier: Hindsight and maturity Aug 15, 2023

Episode #259 // I’ve been doing quite a few guest appearances on other people’s podcasts in recent weeks, and I’ve been asked on several occasions, “Marty, what do you know now, that you wish you’d learned earlier?”…

There are any number of life lessons that I could absolutely have used earlier on, and lots of stuff that would have made me a better leader way sooner.

But, then again, with the benefit of hindsight and wisdom, I’ve come to realize that the depth and value of any lessons comes from the very fact that they are hard fought and won.

Once you learn them, by starting at the right place, going through the trial and error, (and, yes, a little of the essential pain), these lessons stay learned, indelibly imprinted on your psyche.

In this episode, I look at the life lessons that took me every one of my 61 years to learn, and the leadership lessons that gave me the ability to formulate my No Bullsh!t Leadership framework.

Different lessons come to all of us at different times, which is why your ability to step back to see the big picture is key.

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Moment #29: Balancing Banter With Boundaries Aug 13, 2023

Moment #29 // Having close friends is one of life’s ultimate joys. But, as a leader, that’s the last thing you want. Being friends with someone who works for you dilutes your objectivity. And no matter how much you think you can overcome this, the reality is… you can’t!

A friend in your team will take advantage of your good nature… and you’ll cut them more slack than you should. It’s not intentional, but it is unavoidable. This kills the meritocracy culture.

When friendliness turns into friendship, the unintended consequences are counterproductive to everything you want to achieve, as a leader.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.197: Why Can't We Be Friends?.

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Future Trends in Business: Where are we heading? Aug 08, 2023

Episode #258 // One of the principal occupations of many consultants, speakers, and business experts is to try to predict the future. And, although this is virtually impossible, it doesn’t stop them from trying!

If you’re a regular listener, you’ll know that I try to stay away from predictions for the most part. I’d rather deal with the leadership imperatives that drive performance, and work out how to apply these timeless principles to any given context…

This is a subtle but important distinction, and it’s why I feel pretty confident about the guidance I give: how do you apply the proven tools and strategies that I’ve learned in 30+ years of leading at the highest levels.

It’s always fun and interesting to look at emerging trends, though, and to extrapolate those to see where they might be taking us. Today, I’m going to indulge in a little bit of that!

The World Economic Forum published an article a little while back titled, “Five Key Trends Shaping the New World of Work.” After chewing over these five trends, I thought it’d be worth sharing them with you, and giving some consideration to how likely it is that they’ll dominate our thinking in the medium to long term.

Source Material:

Economist Article:

World Economic Forum Article

Five Key Trends Shaping the New World of Work

No Bullsh!t Leadership Episode:

Ep.218: Is Working From Home Working?

Ep.95: The Joys of Outsourcing

Ep.221: Managing Supplier Relationships

Diary of a CEO Episode

Ep.252: Ex-Google Officer Speaks Out On the Dangers of AI

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Moment #28: When Should You Outsource? Aug 06, 2023

Moment #28 // How do you go about making an outsourcing decision for your company?

It’s important to be clear on exactly why you want to outsource, and to understand the relative cost of doing something yourself, as opposed to having a specialist external firm do it for you.

Knowing when to outsource is as critical as any skill you need in business, and this Moment exposes the key questions you need to ask to nail it.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.95: The Joys Of Outsourcing.

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Your Leadership User Manual: Clarifying expectations for success Aug 01, 2023

Episode #257 // I came across an article by Shanna Hocking, which introduced me to the concept of the Leadership User Manual. Hocking credits its origins to Adam Bryant, who wrote an article almost 10 years ago titled, What if you had to write a user manual about your leadership style?

Imagine the power of a physical document that can help your people to understand how they can best work with you. What a great idea!

Knowing how your boss operates, and what he values, could save you years of guesswork, as the only other way to work it out is through trial and error. I wish I’d thought of this years ago!

In this episode, I take a deep dive into the concept of the leadership user manual. I look at the benefits and risks, and I take you along the journey with me as I develop my own inaugural leadership user manual.

We’ve also created a leadership user manual template, a free download, so that you can develop your own guide.

Source Material:

Books (on Amazon)

One Bold Move a Day - Shanna Hocking

Principles - Ray Dalio

Fast Company Article:

How to be the boss everyone wants to work for - Shanna Hocking

LinkedIn Articles

Leaders Need User Manuals (and what I learned by writing mine) - Abby Falik

What if you had to write a "User Manual” about your leadership style? - Adam Bryant

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Moment #27: Defining Weak Leadership Jul 30, 2023

Moment #27 // Weak leaders are characterized by what they’re not prepared to do.

Weak leaders are unwilling to push back on the boss; they don't put the team's interests ahead of their own; they’re unwilling to set ambitious goals; they’re afraid to challenge, coach, and confront their people; and they’re reluctant to challenge the status quo.

What's the price of leadership weakness? Unrealized potential; poor performance; lack of market competitiveness.

Eventually, this leads to job cuts, restructures, and redundancies. And in some cases, the company won’t survive. Weak leaders allow performance to slip, and the outcomes are entirely predictable.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.68: The Price Of Leadership Weakness.

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Barriers to Building Emotional Intelligence with Dr Rebecca Heiss Jul 25, 2023

Episode #256 // The concept of EQ isn’t new. It was the subject of academic research way back in the 1960s, but it took another 30 years before we gained widespread awareness of it through Daniel Goleman’s classic book, Emotional Intelligence.

These days, we have fairly robust tests to measure a person's EQ, and I would never hire a senior executive without having them take those tests… it’s not the be-all-and-end-all, but it does provideanother data point to calibrate the observations you make in other parts of the recruitment and selection process.

What are the barriers to building your own EQ? To deal with this question, I’ve enlisted the aid of Dr Rebecca Heiss, who’s an expert in all things human behavior and leadership. Her book, Instinct, is all about how to rewire our brains to remove some of the barriers to success.

This fascinating discussion may help you to break through some of the barriers that are holding you back.

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Moment #26: From Individual Contributor to Leader Jul 23, 2023

Moment #26 // Of the many mistakes that new leaders are prone to make, over-functioning for certain individuals is one of the most common, and the most insidious.

When you do this, it tells your people that what they're doing isn't good enough. It trains them to be lazy and complacent, because you'll always step in to finish their job for them if you’re not happy. And they'll keep getting paid for not doing their job to the standard you expect.

Excellent leaders give their people clarity of purpose, resources, coaching, and autonomy. They lead people to do their jobs—they don’t do their jobs for them.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.172: Stop Doing Your People's Work, or by reading my article in Harvard Business Review.

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Ep.115: Does Innovation Create Value?

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Building a Better Mousetrap: The productivity reality Jul 18, 2023

Episode #255 // Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door!”. This quote, espousing the value of innovation, has been liberally used and abused over the years.

I came across it again recently in an article from McKinsey: Turning Around the Productivity Slowdown… so, what is productivity? And what’s the relationship between productivity and innovation?

In today’s episode, I look at productivity from a number of different angles. What does it mean in the world of macroeconomics? How does productivity impact our standard of living?

On a day-to-day level, what does it mean for your type of industry and organization? Can productivity provide a competitive advantage?

It doesn’t matter what type of organization you’re leading in, improving productivity will reap huge benefits for all your stakeholders… including the people who work for you.

But, getting your head around why you should have a constant focus on productivity improvement can be a little tricky… hopefully this episode will help.

Source Material:

No Bullsh!t Leadership Episode:

Ep.203: Defending Against Disruptive Innovation

McKinsey Global Institute Article:

Turning Around the Productivity Slowdown

Diary of a CEO Episode

Ep.252: Ex-Google Officer Speaks Out On the Dangers of AI

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Moment #25: Why Management Teams Become Stale Jul 16, 2023

Moment #25 // High-performance is fragile. Teams can lose their lustre for a whole range of reasons, and leading a team of high performers can be incredibly challenging.

The best teams push each other pretty hard, and it can be difficult to maintain constructive tension, without it boiling over into acrimony.

And, yes, sometimes your people just stop listening to you. Over time, familiarity breeds contempt, and the downside of consistency (a much sought-after leadership characteristic) is predictability.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.99: Don't Play One Season Too Many.

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What the Best Leaders Do Differently with Scott J. Miller Jul 11, 2023

Episode #254 // We’re approached all the time to interview other thought leaders on this podcast. However, since No Bullsh!t Leadership is predominantly a solo cast, we reluctantly decline 99% of these requests.

But one email popped into our Inbox a few months ago, and we couldn’t resist it: Scott Jeffrey Miller is a speaker, author, and podcaster (sounds familiar, I know!)

What’s different about Scott is that he’s worked for over 25 years with FranklinCovey, the legendary company started by Stephen Covey, which has not one, but three seminal works to draw upon:

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
The Speed of Trust, and
The 4 Disciplines of Execution (one of my favorites).

Scott has worked with these original thought leaders for decades, and as host of FranklinCovey’s On Leadership podcast, he’s had access to some of the best-known and highest-profile leaders on the planet.

In today’s interview, I drill into Scott’s deep learning, asking him what it’s like to interview the biggest names in business; his experience of writing best-selling books; and what’s in store for the future of leadership.

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Moment #24: The Risks Of Office Romances Jul 09, 2023

Moment #24 // As a leader, how do you set appropriate boundaries in your work relationships? How do you strike the balance between establishing trust-based, caring relationships with your people, and maintaining professional distance?

The social pendulum has really swung in the last 3-5 years. Organizations are increasingly seeking to impose themselves in the personal decisions of their people. As a leader, you need to be hyper-vigilant about how these shifting dynamics can potentially affect your career.

Your role is to set the tone, the pace and the standard for your people, and being in a workplace relationship makes that so much more difficult.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.14: Friendly, Not Friends.

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Lifters and Leaners: The contribution mentality Jul 04, 2023

Episode #253 // In life, there tend to be two kinds of people: there are lifters and there are leaners. Lifters carry the burden for themselves and others… they take on more accountability than the average person, and they don’t rely on anyone else to make things happen.

And leaners are happy to let them do so!

In this episode, which I hope you find to be pretty straightforward and easy to absorb, my goal is to do just one thing: to explain the differences between lifters and leaners, and help you to clarify which one you are, right now.

As a leader, you want the personal brand of being a lifter, not a leaner. Once you know the difference, the rest is up to you. Like everything in life, you get to choose your path, and make it happen… or not!

I’ve also created a free PDF downloadable so that you can undertake a self-assessment which you can download here: Are you a lifter, or a leaner?

Source Material:

No Bullsh!t Leadership Episode:

Mark Manson Article:

The Most Important Question of Your Life

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Moment #23: Mastering Your Mindset Jul 02, 2023

Moment #23 // You don't want your business to suffer the impact of poor decisions that are driven by fear. If you can sense, and then short-circuit your physiological reactions as they arise, you’ll be in a better position to implement some coping strategies, rather than just letting nature take its course.

If you learn to control your physical state, it opens up the pathways for your conscious mind to handle things. Once your response is in the conscious, you can ask yourself a series of questions that will help you to manage your fear by bringing greater perspective to the problem.

Staying calm and rational is a prerequisite to making great decisions. If you can find Grace Under Pressure, you’ll excel in the moments that matter most.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.139: Fighting Fear

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How Britain Lost British Steel

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Hard Lessons of the Ego: The pride before the fall Jun 27, 2023

Episode #252 // Chris Licht, the former CEO of CNN, resigned recently after a scathing exposé in The Atlantic. What was supposed to be an opportunity to provide a firsthand account of a miraculous company turnaround, ended up in embarrassment, reputational damage, and the inevitable sacking.

This isn’t the first time someone has invited the media to make a contemporaneous record of a firm’s excellence, only to have it backfire spectacularly!

In the 1970s, British Steel was the subject of a documentary film which, instead of showcasing its leading edge management performance and industrial dominance, as had been expected, uncovered an unhealthy culture that made any aspirations of commercial excellence impossible.

What causes leaders to believe their own bullsh!t? Why would they open themselves up to public scrutiny if they didn’t genuinely believe in their abilities, and the almost inevitable success of their mission?

In this episode, I look at these two case studies, and dig into the root causes of hubris. I also give my three tips for staying grounded (and staying out of the newspapers).

Source Material

UnHerd Article:

HBS Case Study

British Steel Corporation - the Korf Contract

No Bullsh!t Leadership Episodes:

Ep.1: Respect Before Popularity

Ep.183: Mentors, Coaches, and Trusted Advisors

Ep.229: Confidence, Arrogance, and Self-Doubt

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Moment #22: Unmasking Reluctant Leaders Jun 25, 2023

Moment #22 // Some people really don't want to lead. But they don’t necessarily know that they don’t want to. So, why would they take on a leadership role if they have no desire to lead? And how do you identify a reluctant leader?

The clue is in the expectations they place upon their team? Do they lead them to greater heights, or just accept whatever an individual chooses to do on any given day? Weak leaders lower the standard to meet the performance, strong leaders lift the performance to meet the standard.

Whatever you do, it’s important to set an expectation that all leaders do the hard work of leadership in their teams… even the reluctant ones.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.164: Leadership Not For You?.

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Indispensable Workplace Competencies: Getting to the top Jun 20, 2023

Episode #251 // There are a range of competencies required to forge a successful career. On this podcast, of course, we focus predominantly on how to develop and improve your leadership capability to uplift your team’s performance.

Leadership competency gives you leverage: it enables you to multiply and accelerate the results you can achieve through others. And the higher up you go, the more valuable this capability becomes.

But there are a number of other vital ingredients that I speak about from time to time, that are crucial building blocks in your success ecosystem.

In this episode, I take a more holistic look at what I consider to be indispensable workplace competencies: from business acumen and work ethic, to politics and influence.

I also look at what the most ambitious, up-and-coming MBA students at one of the world’s top business schools perceive to be critical competencies for 21st century business… and I integrate all of this into a simple checklist of development areas so that you can work out what to focus on to produce sustainable performance.

Source Material

Economist Article:

No Bullsh!t Leadership Episodes:

Ep.138: It's Not What You Know

Ep.5: Using Power Wisely

Ep.243: Credibility: The Hallmark of Great Leaders

Ep.168: Political Sabotage at Work

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Moment #21: How To Be More Promotable Jun 18, 2023

Moment #21 // There are a few key things you need to do in order to maximize your promotability.

How do you stamp yourself as a trusted advisor, rather than just a workhorse? Why should you strive to make yourself redundant, rather than indispensable? And why is it critical to focus on your leadership capability just as much as your business acumen?

Your goal should be to position yourself as a trusted advisor, who thinks about the broader issues, while energizing your team to deliver extraordinary results.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.176: When You Don't Get the Job.

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Leveraging Parenthood into Performance: Marty Interviews Em Jun 13, 2023

Episode #250 // One of the most intractable issues affecting gender equity in the workplace is maternity leave. Companies and countries are trying to find ways to make it easier for women to have families, without significant disruption to their careers.

Our CEO, Emma Green recently became a mother. She’s just flown half way around the world, by herself with 9-month-old Florence to attend a Mastermind of elite business owners who’ve built huge companies, while balancing the demands of motherhood and family.

As a leader, you will have to face the challenges of maternity leave at some point—if not for yourself, then certainly for others.

And if you’re a current or future mother, you’ll be thinking quite a bit about balancing the needs of family, while still maintaining your performance as a leader, and without having to sacrifice promotions, pay rises, and career opportunities!

In this episode, we flip the script, as I interview Em about how the experience of balancing motherhood, and running a fast-growth business has been for her so far.

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Harvard Business Review Article:

No Bullsh!t Leadership Episode:

Ep.183: Mentors, Coaches, and Trusted Advisors

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Moment #20: Why Performance Trumps Tenure Jun 11, 2023

Moment #20 // In a hot job market, you can't retain every one of your people, which is why it’s important to think about who your star performers are, and to make sure they don’t go anywhere. This necessitates a very deliberate approach to talent management and retention.

Looking at individual performance first, identifying any critical roles, and understanding which core functions truly enable your business to compete, will enable you to target the people you really need to retain.

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Self-Driven Success: Navigating Your Own Professional Growth Jun 06, 2023

Episode #249 // Did you know that while 83% of organizations acknowledge the importance of developing leaders, only 5% actually follow through? It's no wonder many leaders feel lost and unfulfilled.

If you've been yearning for a more fulfilling leadership career, this episode is for you. Imagine taking control of your own development, transcending the boundaries set by others. The truth is, nobody will care about your career growth as passionately as you do.

If you're unsure where to begin, we've got you! Today's episode is a replay of a live training session that Marty did last month called "From Frustration to Fulfilment: Navigating Professional Growth With Limited Support From Your Boss." In just 30 minutes, he dives into the core capabilities of exceptional leaders and reveals five steps to craft a killer career plan.

Stop waiting for your boss to drive your growth. It's time to unlock your full potential as a leader, and this training is just the start of your levelling up journey!

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Episode #299: Confidence, Arrogance, and Self-Doubt

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Moment #19: Burn the Boats: Committing to Culture Change Jun 04, 2023

Moment #19 // To make any serious change requires a change of culture—the way we do things around here—and changing culture is not for the faint of heart.

It takes discipline, perseverance, time, energy, some pain, a bunch of momentum, some tough decisions, courage, influence, collaboration - it’s not at all easy to change a culture.

If you want to be a leader who drives change, who creates a high performance culture, then you’d better pay attention to your people, and you’d better burn the boats.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.35: Driving Value From Your People.

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The CEO and the Board: Are outcomes improving? May 30, 2023

Episode #248 // We still seem to be witnessing some pretty spectacular failures in corporate governance. Every week, the financial press manages to uncover some sort of personal scandal, a sudden and unexpected decline in performance, or a breach of a company’s social license to operate.

Even more common now, is the reporting on companies’ handling of workforce issues, like layoffs, and return to the office policies.

I came across an interesting interview with one of Australia’s leading company directors, Alison Watkins, which explored the evolving relationship between the CEO and the Board. Overall, it presented quite a positive outlook.

In this episode, I look at how this critical relationship is evolving, and what we can expect from boards in coming years, as we see less and less tolerance for business transgressions.

Source Material

McKinsey Interview:

(22nd November, 2022)

Harvard Law School Research

Mandating Women on Boards: Evidence from the United States

No Bullsh!t Leadership Episode:

Ep.54: Managing the Board

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Moment #18: When To Part Ways With a Poor Performer May 28, 2023

Moment #18 // How do you know when the right time is to let a poor performer go? Many leaders sit back and just hope that the person will improve. But hope isn’t a strategy. And when you’re dealing with a historically poor performer, it's rarely the case that they lift to meet the minimum acceptable standard.

The most commonly cited regret of great leaders, as they reflect on their careers, is that they didn't move quickly enough to remove the people who they knew couldn’t do the job.

If you’re serious about performance, you need to free up your non-performers so that they can be successful in another organization–preferably, one of your competitor’s!

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.34: When It's Time For Someone To Go.

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Achieving Operational Excellence: Leading sustainable improvement May 23, 2023

Episode #247 // Virtually every organization has some form of operational delivery capability for its products and services. More often than not, your ability to compete in the market can be strengthened through operational excellence.

But operational excellence is elusive, and many of the programs that companies invest in to deliver improved operational performance only ever realize a fraction of the potential benefits.

Senior leaders often focus purely on the technical and process elements of operational performance. But the barriers that will confront you in process and technology are dwarfed by the organizational barriers that exist in your people and culture.

If you want to achieve operational excellence, your will, commitment, and appetite for doing the hard yards will be pushed to its limits.

In this episode, I explore the very nature of operational excellence. I give a couple of meaty, real-world examples of operational excellence initiatives that I’ve led in the past. And I leave you with a free simple, 13-step checklist to achieving operational excellence, which is available as a free downloadable PDF resource!

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Moment #17: The 5 Hidden Enemies Of High Performance May 21, 2023

Moment #17 // Low accountability cultures are riddled with barriers to performance. The leaders resign themselves to the fact that gaps and overlaps are inevitable, and they rationalize that strong single point accountabilities aren’t really necessary.

What are the 5 hidden drivers of low accountability? And how do you find them before they damage your team’s performance? Everyone deserves to be treated equally, but they also have to be held to account for the way they behave and perform… otherwise your best people will be dragged down to the lowest common denominator. And performance doesn’t live in that type of culture.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.19: Execution For Results.

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The Curse Of Short-Term Focus: Finding a balance May 16, 2023

Episode #246 // One of the most widespread and seemingly intractable problems facing leaders and organizations everywhere, is the drive to focus only on short-term results. And this condition doesn’t discriminate between industries, countries, or cultures.

Almost everything that happens in our work lives locks us inside the prison walls of an ever-present, high-demand, short-term focus. Very few leaders develop the type of long-term perspective that enables genuine attention to where a company will be in 5 years, 10 years, and beyond.

Even though I’ve trained myself over the years to take a longer-term view of the world, instinctively I’m the same as everyone else. It’s hard to break free from the pressing issues of today, when the need for immediate action is obvious, and the consequences of tomorrow feel so far away.

This episode explores why almost everything in our work environment constrains us to a short-term focus. I give some concrete, real-life examples of how short-term focus manifests itself… and, of course, I leave you with a few practical tips to help you to lengthen the time horizon you look towards, in any situation.

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AFR Article

AFR Article

How Much CEOs Are Really Paid

Professor David Yoffie Profile

Yoffie’s HBR Profile

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Moment #16: Don’t Believe Your Own Bullsh!t May 14, 2023

Moment #16 // Some companies have turned the concept of believing your own bullshit into an art form! It’s really easy to convince ourselves that we are achieving amazing things when, in actual fact, very little is changing.

Do you believe your own bullsh!t?

For more depth on this insight, listen to Ep.143 of the No Bullsh!t Leadership Podcast: Believing Your Own Bullsh!t.

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Drive For Performance or Bullying? It's a fine line... May 09, 2023

Episode #245 // I’m a vocal advocate of strong leadership: the need to stretch people to achieve extraordinary performance, with a single-minded focus on value creation (bearing in mind, of course, that value comes in many different forms: it’s not just financial results).

Recently, we’ve seen two cases from opposite sides of the world in which the stated drive for improved performance has resulted in serious allegations of bullying.

The first, is Dominic Raab, the UK’s Deputy PM, who was forced to resign after allegations of bullying were raised by some of his public sector departmental staff, and the second is an unfair dismissal lawsuit brought by a former employee of Myer, Australia's largest department store chain.

Each of these relies on interpretation of the events on which the allegations are founded. And even though it can often be a case of “he said / she said”, in both these instances there’s no shortage of witnesses.

But did these cases genuinely involve bullying, or were they simply examples of strong leaders managing people who weren’t doing their jobs to the required standard?

I begin today’s episode with a little revision on what strong leadership really is, and then I unpack these two specific cases to examine the fine lines that sometimes exist between performance drive and bullying.

Source Material Referenced:

No Bullsh!t Leadership Podcast Episode Ep.182: What Is Strong Leadership?
The Economist - Bartleby If Enough People Think You’re a Bad Boss, Then You Are
The Australian Financial Review Myer in court over alleged executive bullying

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Moment #15: Unlocking True Capability May 07, 2023

Moment #15 // The primary function of a leader is to create and maintain a culture that’s conducive to performance excellence… a culture where every individual is committed to giving their best every day.

More often than not, cultures just grow organically, as people learn over time what the expectations and limits of the leader truly are. If you don’t focus, deliberately and explicitly, on creating the type of culture that drives genuine performance, then the culture you get will be… whatever it’ll be!

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.27: Unleashing the Power Of Your People.

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Cracking the Performance Management Code May 02, 2023

Episode #244 // One of the toughest elements of leadership is managing your people’s performance. Everyone has to meet a minimum acceptable standard, of course… but beyond that, you also want to be able to lead your best people to perform at their peak.

We get an endless stream of questions about the performance management ecosystem, particularly when a team member slips into chronic underperformance. There’s no doubt that every situation is different, but there are some common themes running through all of this.

In today’s Q&A episode, Em guides me through a bunch of questions that explore the main aspects of the performance management cycle, including how to lead before formal performance management becomes necessary, what to do once you’re in there, and how to respond if you work in a culture that doesn’t support individual differentiation and high performance.

If you don’t know where to start when it comes to making notes on your people’s performance, you won't want to miss out on the free Performance Notes Template that Em has made for this episode. This customizable GoogleSheets template (with some fictional examples on it to get you started) is the perfect tool to help you track and analyze your DR’s performance over time, which makes the performance management process MUCH easier when the time comes. It’s simple, but it’s what we use here at YCM to keep things on track.

There’s also a number of important, related episodes that I mention in the Q&A. You can follow the links directly to them from here:

Ep.225: Handling Layoffs Competently

Ep.206: It's Still Respect Before Popularity

Ep.6: The Psychology of Feedback

Ep.57: Challenge, Coach, Confront

Ep.239: Leading In a Low Performance Culture

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Moment #14: How To Spot a Political Animal Apr 30, 2023

Moment #14 // On one level, politics can be seen simply as a process of influencing. But more often, it’s a devious, divisive tool used by unscrupulous individuals to further their own standing—it creates a toxic and cancerous culture.

How do you spot a political animal? Office politics can be incredibly destructive, but there's no organization that's completely immune to it. No great leader plays politics, but they’re acutely aware of it: and the first step is to be able to recognize a political animal.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.168: Political Sabotage At Work.

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Credibility: The Hallmark Of Great Leaders Apr 25, 2023

Episode #243 // Whatever you try to achieve as a leader relies, at least to some extent, on your credibility. If you have strong personal credibility, it makes everything you do inordinately easier.

Credibility galvanizes your team… it instills confidence in the people above you… and it ultimately becomes an integral part of your leadership brand. Without it, every yard you manage to move forward feels hard.

There’s no shortage of smart executives in the world, but there are very few great leaders. Credibility is the hallmark of all great leaders. Without exception, great leaders have high personal credibility…

It's the type of credibility that’s founded in their competence, their values, their leadership approach and, ultimately, their results. And everyone around them notices—you can feel the difference!

In this episode, I expose the key differences between those who are just smart executives, and those who are great leaders. And, with this as the foundation, I reveal some of the critical elements required to successfully build and maintain your personal leadership credibility.

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Moment #13: Struggling With Simple Decisions? Apr 23, 2023

Moment #13 // Do you have decision fatigue? During the course of every day, our brains are forced to make thousands of decisions, big and small. The cumulative effect of all these decisions is mental fatigue, which can result in poor judgment and irrational decision making, even when faced with relatively simple decisions.

But using the decision fatigue label provides an excuse for not dealing with something that we should actually deal with. Making decisions is part of life, it's part of business, and in any senior career you need to be adept at making decisions when they need to be made.

You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.80: Decision Fatigue.

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Leading Older Workers: Capturing the value opportunity Apr 18, 2023

Episode #242 // The question we used to ask only occasionally has now become more frequent… “how old is too old?” While most countries still regard the retirement age for the average citizen to be somewhere in their early to mid-60s, one of the big societal trends in wealthier countries is the aging population.

As the population ages, many people will choose to work for longer, either to satisfy their need for purpose, or through financial necessity. The bottom line for leaders is that you’re going to be in a position where you have to lead older workers, and integrate them into a team culture that spans at least three generations.

In this episode, I explore how to get the best from older workers, not to be put off by the challenge of leading them.

I present some of the data on how population and demographics are changing across the world, I examine the strategic potential for value differentiation, and I give you my Six Tips for Getting the Most From Older Workers (which will be available as a free PDF downloadable).

Source Material:

Article: Centre for Retirement Research at BC

Research: Our World in Data

Median Age

Research: Our World in Data

Age Structure

The Economist

The Age of the Grandparent Has Arrived

Wikipedia

Retirement Age (by Country)

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Moment #12: Blaming Others Doesn’t Help Apr 16, 2023

Moment #12 // Blaming others when something doesn’t go to plan is one of the most insidious leadership behaviors. It’s a cancer in your culture that has to be eradicated. When a leader tolerates the blame game, excuses become the norm, and organizational politics thrives.

You have to learn how to deliver bad news, even when your boss doesn’t want to hear about it. Equally, you have to encourage your people by rewarding those who choose to take the path of strength and proactiveness, creating a “no blame, no excuses” culture! You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.158: The Blame Game.

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Need More People? Here's how to convince your boss Apr 11, 2023

Ep #241 // It’s always been a tough ask to get your boss to provide additional resources, whether it’s money, people, or assets. And it’s certainly not getting any easier in the current environment.

Businesses in virtually every sector of the economy are being squeezed with rising costs, high interest rates, and a bear labor market.

The mantra of doing more with less has never been more pronounced than it is right now: it’s simply the default position, whether by design, or by sheer necessity.

So, you think you need more people to help you achieve the things you’re accountable for delivering? How would you know if this was a sensible move? And if you’re confident that it is essential, how would you sell that concept to your boss, and get the green light to bring on more people?

This episode provides a definitive view of the resource landscape, so that you know how to approach any conversation at any level: and this will guide you, whether you’re proposing the case yourself, or deciding whether or not to accept a request from one of your people.

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Moment #11: What Standard Are YOU Setting? Apr 09, 2023

Moment #11 // One of the most important roles that a leader plays is to set the right standards for performance and behavior. Sometimes, we think we're setting an appropriately high performance standard, but the exceptions we make indicate otherwise.

How do you actually set the standard? And if it’s higher than people are used to, how do you communicate what you need from them? Never walk past an inferior standard of performance or behavior—it either builds or breaks your culture! You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.44: The Standard You Walk Past Is the Standard You Set.

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The Talented Jerk: How much should you tolerate? Apr 04, 2023

Episode #240 // We’ve all come across people during our careers who are really good at what they do, but are just awful to work with. They seem to think that their superior performance gives them the license to behave in any manner they see fit, and they don’t observe the usual social protocols that are essential in maintaining a stable team.

Talented jerks come in many different shapes and sizes: there’s no one-size-fits-all description of how they show up in a team. Some are just terminally annoying, and you feel as though you want to roll your eyes every time they talk.

Others are willfully destructive, and appear to be pushing the company’s leadership to see just how far they’ll be allowed to go before they’re brought into line.

Today’s episode is pretty simple: I identify five common types of talented jerk, and give you some ideas for how to approach each situation so that you remain in control, and neutralize their impact on team culture.

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Moment #10: Why Is Respect Before Popularity So Crucial? Apr 02, 2023

Moment #8 // If you need to be liked, and you have aspirations of being a leader, you’re going to find yourself in trouble pretty quickly. Virtually everything you do as a leader puts you into a potential conflict situation.

Seeking popularity will stunt your leadership growth, dull your decision-making, and feed your tendency to procrastinate. Popularity doesn’t matter… respect does, which is why you need to be comfortable with the concept of doing hard things that may make you unpopular. You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Episode 206: It's STILL Respect Before Popularity.

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Leading In a Low Performance Culture: Can it work? Mar 28, 2023

Episode #239 // The proverbial high performing team has become a leadership cliché, and I can’t count the number of leaders who claim to have built a high performing team (often, despite objective evidence to the contrary).

But what if the culture you’re leading in is actually a low performance culture?We get lots of questions from leaders about the difficulties they have applying basic performance management principles and, more often than not, the root cause is a pervasive, low performance culture.

It can be particularly difficult to swim against the tide in these types of organizations and, as a leader, you have to decide what type of team you want, what type of results you want, and what you want your leadership brand to ultimately stand for.

In today’s episode, I give you a process that will help you to assess your culture for signs of endemic low performance… I explain why it can be so hard to improve low performance cultures… and I give you some tips for where to start if you decide to take on the challenge of leading in a low performance culture.

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Moment #9: High-Performing Teams Start With High-Performing Individuals Mar 26, 2023

Moment #9 // Many leaders claim to have built high-performing teams but, in my experience, most can’t even clearly articulate what a high-performing team is! And if you really want to build a high performing team—then there’s going to be some pretty tough leadership work ahead.

Many leaders fall at the first hurdle: high-performing teams are comprised of high-performing individuals: no passengers, no tourists! You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.2: Building a High-Performing Team.

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Navigating Toxic Work Cultures & Office Politics: Q&A with Marty and Em Mar 21, 2023

Episode #238 // Leadership drives culture, culture drives performance.

Today, we look at a few very common team culture dynamics, and give some perspectives for how you might be able to handle these situations, when you find yourself in the middle of them.

The first is the incredibly common phenomenon of the supposed star performer who ‘manages up’ brilliantly, but doesn’t actually deliver… and the boss is too weak, or too conflict-averse to hold them to account—they’d rather let the rest of the team bear the brunt, as long as the work is getting done somehow.

The second focuses on organizational politics, and how deceptive behavior can be leveraged for advantage by those who concentrate more on politics than value creation.

In this Q&A episode, I give some incredibly practical tips for how to handle each of these situations, including some of the conversations you’ll probably need to have, and the killer questions you can ask.

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Moment #8: Permissive Leaders Make People Unproductive AND Unhappy Mar 19, 2023

Moment #8 // Permissive Leaders Make People Unproductive AND Unhappy

I've seen the devastating effects of laissez-faire leaders. They seem to think that if you keep people happy, they’ll naturally give you their best work. In my experience, this is almost never the case. Worse still, these leaders often mistake a constructive culture, to mean you can only say positive things to people.

Make no mistake, there's nothing soft about a constructive culture. It only exists when a leader demands the best from every individual, and is prepared to stretch them to achieve things they never thought they could. You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.8: Are Happy Workers Productive Workers?

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Hiring Better People: Are personality profiles useful? Mar 14, 2023

Episode #237 // If you feel as though you’re struggling to hire the right people at the moment, this episode will rebuild your faith in the process, despite the current labor market dynamics.

Unfortunately, a few poorly-timed or unexpected resignations can leave critical gaps in your capability. And this feels even worse when you place an ad on an online job board expecting an influx of high-quality candidates, only to hear the sound of tumbleweeds sweeping across the tundra.

This can affect your mood, and one of the worrying side-effects of this is that you may begin to feel as though you have to keep all your current employees. You begin to manage your people differently, and lower the standards so you don’t scare any of them off.

This episode covers a huge amount of ground:

I address the question, “Why is hiring so difficult?”;
I explain how you can use aptitude and psych testing to reduce your risk of hiring the wrong person; and
I give you my 6 rules of thumb for executing the hiring process so that you can begin to hire better people

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Moment #7: Building a Diverse Organization Isn’t Simple Mar 12, 2023

Moment #7 // Building a Diverse Organization Isn’t Simple

If it was easy to build a diverse organization, everyone would have already done it. There's a couple of limiting factors that I've learned from experience make this incredibly difficult.

Historical disadvantage, subconscious bias, and a lack of forward thinking all contribute to this vexed problem. So where do you start? You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.11: Pale, Male, and Stale

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It’s All In the Mind: The mental game of leadership Mar 07, 2023

Episode #236 // Have you ever wondered why people who are clearly at the top of their game all of a sudden have a steep decline in performance? Things that they’ve been able to routinely do at an elite level all of a sudden seem to be beyond their reach.

I saw an example of this just recently, where a professional NFL footballer inexplicably lost the plot. His physical abilities were no different after the slump in form as they were prior to the slump. But it looked like his mental state was night-and-day different!

What happens if you have a crisis of confidence in your own leadership? There’s a big difference between having healthy doubts, and having the sort of mental collapse that hijacks your very ability to perform.

In this episode, I discuss those differences, and give you some tactics for dealing with any performance declines so that, at worst, they’re short-lived, and at best you emerge from them even stronger than before.

Resources referenced:

ESPN Website

spotrac.com

Brett Maher Salary

Wikipedia

Ian Baker-Finch

No Bullsh!t Leadership

Ep.229 Confidence, Arrogance, and Self-doubt

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Moment #6: What Does a Great Decision-Making Culture Look Like? Mar 05, 2023

Moment #6 // Great leaders set an appropriate decision-making culture. People need to know that robust challenge is expected and rewarded, not frowned upon and suppressed. You have to be able to challenge each other, if you want to bring out your best.

This invariably involves some friction… but it’s the only way to bring the often opposing views to the table, debate them, and work through them together. You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.20: Make Great Decisions.

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Our Framework Facelift: No Bullsh!t Leadership Evolves Feb 28, 2023

Episode #235 // Momentum is really picking up for Your CEO Mentor in 2023, so in this episode I thought I’d share our plans for the evolution of No Bullsh!t Leadership.

Of course, the fundamentals will remain the same. Our purpose keeps us focused on delivering practical, high-quality content every week to cut through the spin, the noise, and the political correctness that dominate today’s world of leadership development.

We’re here for one reason, and one reason only: to improve the quality of leaders, globally. This is why I get out of bed in the morning, and it’s why Em and the team at Your CEO Mentor Global HQ, as we like to call it, are constantly innovating… to increase our market reach, so that we can influence as many leaders as humanly possible.

Our staples are the weekly podcast, and our twice-yearly public cohorts of Leadership Beyond the Theory. They aren’t going anywhere, and we’re constantly thinking of ways to keep them as relevant and fresh today as they were when we started the business over four years ago.

Having said all of that, living in the US has been a bit of an eye-opener for me, and my focus is shifting slightly, as I look to leverage my presence in the world’s premier market. In this episode, I give you a rare window into my thinking on all things No Bullsh!t Leadership.

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Moment #5: What’s Busy Work, and Why Is It So Common? Feb 26, 2023

Moment #5 // What’s Busy Work, and Why Is It So Common?

One of the hardest things to do in any organization is to stop activity once it’s started—even if you know it’s not delivering value. It gets a life of its own, because people get emotionally attached to it, and they protect it.

“Busy Work” is activity that keeps you occupied, but doesn't necessarily create value. It's justifiable to anyone who happens to look, based on the hours of effort it consumes. But is it useful? You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.73: Busy Work

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Employee to Entrepreneur: The Art of Self-Leadership with Amy Porterfield Feb 21, 2023

Episode #234 // Without Amy Porterfield there would be no Your CEO Mentor, no No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast and no Leadership Beyond the Theory, the program that has transformed thousands of leaders on six continents!

Amy’s work laid the foundations for our business model, and it’s her content that enabled Em to develop the strategy that convinced me to quit my CEO gig and start this business, following my true calling.

I was incredibly fortunate to have a deeply insightful conversation with Amy, as we talk through her business journey (over $80 million in revenue from online course sales over the past 14 years) and her view on why self-leadership is so critical if you want to take control of your career, be it in the corporate world or as an entrepreneur.

We cover so much in this interview:

* How to bridge the gap between a brilliant idea and a profitable business

* The key to long term success when starting something new

* How to consistently innovate

* Why it’s important to be in the ‘right room’ of people, and how to get there

* The most valuable piece of advice she received from Tony Robbins (this is GOLD)

* Maximizing productivity with an all-virtual workforce

And so much more!

This interview was an absolute joy to record and I hope you get a huge amount of value out of it.

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Moment #4: Is Leading From the Front a Good Thing? Feb 19, 2023

Moment #4 // It’s great to lead from the front, but you have to understand what that means. You can’t do your people’s work for them, only to say, "I'm leading from the front.”

That’s not leading from the front, and it’s not setting a virtuous example. Just the opposite. Listen to what leading from the front really means. You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.88: Rolling Your Sleeves Up

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The 4-Day Work Week: Q&A with Marty and Em Feb 14, 2023

Episode #233 // Workforce layoffs have continued in the US, as large companies trim the fat in advance of the recession that looks likely to head our way. But the latest data on economic growth and jobs are more positive than most commentators expected.

Europe is leading the way, with some better than expected growth figures, and the US added almost 600,000 jobs to the economy in January, which will keep an already tight labor market highly strung. So, with US unemployment at a 50-plus-year low, it could be a seller’s market for some time to come.

Meanwhile, we continue to field questions every day from listeners who are navigating their own challenges, with a backdrop of highly-complex and fast-moving shifts in workforce dynamics.

In today’s Q&A episode, we’re going to look at some of the phenomena that you’re likely to be wrestling with at the moment, starting with the new push to establish the 4-day work week as a standard in many companies.

We also take on the difficult topic of shift workers. How do you get shift workers engaged in training and development, when they’re (quite rightly) focused on critical front-line, or customer-facing activities?

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Moment #3: Why Most Leaders Avoid Hard Conversations Feb 12, 2023

Moment #3 // Why Most Leaders Avoid Hard Conversations

Why do so many leaders choose to avoid hard conversations? It's much more about a lack of will than a lack of skill. Avoiding interpersonal conflict isn’t that hard, and it’s easy to rationalize why you don’t need to do it.

Competent leaders know the power of difficult conversations, and they recognize that it’s the only real path to high performance. You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.6: The Psychology of Feedback.

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What Motivates Your People? Revisiting a critical truth Feb 07, 2023

Episode #232 // Motivation can be pretty tricky. Trying to work out what you can do to help your people reach a state of motivation and stay there for a little while is more complicated than it sounds.

Should you try to make them happy? Should you pay them more? Should you lavish them with praise and positive feedback?

The truth about what motivates people might surprise you. Interestingly, the path to motivation isn’t an easy one, and it’s not a path that many people will tread of their own accord.

But there are some things you can do that are relatively simple, which have a high success rate. It’s just that, like all the best leadership stuff, it’s not easy, and it forces you to face the spectre of not being liked. That’s enough to turn many leaders off the concept altogether!

In this episode, I look at the changing world of work, and how the challenge of motivating your people may have changed. I also give you my '5 Tips for Motivating Your People', which is available as a free downloadable at www.yourceomentor.com/episode232.

Source Material:

No Bullsh!t Leadership Podcast

No Bullsh!t Leadership Podcast

Ep.36: If Money Doesn't Motivate, What Does?

No Bullsh!t Leadership Podcast

Ep.201: Finding Your Purpose

Book (on Amazon)

Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us

No Bullsh!t Leadership Podcast

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Moment #2: Ban These 5 Words from Your Corporate Values Feb 05, 2023

Moment #2 // Ban These 5 Words from Your Corporate Values

Virtually every company has a set of values that adorns its glossy brochures and marketing materials. But many of your customers (and your own people), will be deeply cynical about them.

What words should you avoid, and how do you not fall into the trap of having a meaningless set of company values. You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.10: Are Company Values Meaningless?

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Talent Management: Planning for the future Jan 31, 2023

Episode #231 // If you’re a regular listener of No Bullsh!t Leadership, you’ll know that I speak about talent frequently, in a range of different contexts. But the word “talent” is so overused these days that it’s hard to differentiate between the real work of nurturing and developing your best people, and the more mundane aspects of running a business.

There’s a number of critical components to understanding and managing the talent you have—and you won’t know who your real talent is unless you implement a robust process across the whole team.

Sometimes, as busy as we are, we rationalize that it’s easier just to leave talent growth to happen organically. We tell ourselves that all our people are excellent, and we avoid the hard work of leadership.

But if you want your team to perform at its peak, it’s virtually impossible without a focus on performance and talent management.

In this episode, I cover the foundations of talent management, providing an overview of the five distinct elements that you need to have in order to make it work. And, given how daunting it can be, I also give you some suggestions for where to start, regardless of where you are today.

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Moment #1: The Purpose of Leadership Jan 29, 2023

Moment #1 // The Purpose of Leadership

We sometimes forget what the true purpose of leadership is. It’s not to entertain your people during their working hours, and it’s not to focus on helping them to live their best lives.

Leadership is about creating the right standards, conditions, and culture to optimize results. You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.4: What is Leadership... Really?

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Too Many Cooks: Managing complex accountabilities Jan 24, 2023

Episode #230 // In this modern era of enlightened inclusiveness, the pendulum has swung decisively from independently operating silos towards sharing and collaboration. This has seen the resurgence of role sharing, at all levels, in organizations of all sizes.

Collaboration is a critical ingredient to working successfully in the complex organizations we now live in. But what happens when accountabilities are split to the point where they become opaque, confused, or misunderstood?

From low-level, part-time job sharing to co-CEOs of major global businesses, we witness the hazards of trying to share accountabilities. Humans just aren’t particularly good at it, for all sorts of reasons.

If you just want your people to be able to come to work, and feel good about contributing in a team environment with their peers, then shared accountabilities are just the ticket.

But, if it’s performance you’re after, it’s very unlikely that you’ll find it in a structure that assumes accountabilities can be spread across multiple people.

In this episode, I look at a number of different job-sharing models, and some of the problems they can create. And, of course being a practical podcast, I outline my 3-step process for structuring an accountable team.

Source Material:

Previous No Bullsh!t Leadership Episode

Fast Company Article

Bret Taylor Leaves Salesforce

WSJ Article

Tension Between Benioff and Taylor Grew

Acceleration Economy Network Article

Co-CEO Model is Dead

Bloomberg Interview (YouTube)

McDermott and Hagemann Snabe discuss co-CEO model

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Confidence, Arrogance, and Self-Doubt: The fine lines we tread Jan 17, 2023

Episode #229 // In the world of modern leadership, we’re conditioned to believe that humility is the most essential characteristic we can possess. And there’s no doubt that some measure of humility is important.

But it’s easy to misinterpret this to mean that we shouldn’t display confidence… that confidence is somehow the enemy of humility.

Nothing could be further from the truth and, in my experience, a leader who lacks confidence can be just as dangerous as a leader who lacks humility.

In this episode, I give you a window into my own journey from leadership arrogance to quiet confidence, and I get right under the hood to examine some critical questions:

Why is it so important for a leader to develop a level of confidence?
What’s the difference between confidence and arrogance? and,
How do you overcome the self-doubt that paralyzes many leaders?

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Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

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Resilience Myths: What really makes you stronger? Jan 10, 2023

Episode #228 // Since the Covid pandemic, resilience has captured a much greater share of our collective consciousness. And, as tends to happen, the world now seems to be flooded with “resilience experts”, who profess to be able to teach us how to handle the most difficult situations effortlessly.

I’m not an expert in resilience per se, but through my own journey I can confidently say that I’ve become an incredibly resilient person. Maybe it just comes with a little age and maturity—but very little fazes me.

Over the course of my corporate career, I became very comfortable handling all sorts of crises, while operating at the highest levels. And, if you were to ask the people who worked closely with me over the years, I’m sure they’d tell you that I’m extremely calm under pressure.

So, in this world of trite and pedestrian advice on how to become more resilient, I was happy to find a beacon of hope. Steve Magness released a book just a few months ago called “Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness”.

In this episode, I look at a few of the principles Magness outlines in the book which, in my opinion, beautifully describe the relationship between the choices we make and our level of resilience. I also examine the link between routine and resilience, and I give you my top four hacks for learning how to do hard things.

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Greg McKeown Podcast

The Genius of Routine

Steve Magness Book

Mark Manson Blog

The Most Important Question of Your Life

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Leadership in 2023: What will we be navigating? Jan 03, 2023

Episode #227 // At the end of each year, I usually spend some time studying a variety of sources to come up with a view on possible future outcomes in business, politics, and society.

In this episode, I take a look at what’s likely ahead for leaders in 2023 and, without making any fearless predictions, give you some sense of where the world appears to be heading.

Remember, trend is your friend! Rather than just making judgments based on a snapshot at any given point in time, it’s more useful to see which way an issue has been trending over time.

From sources as diverse as The Economist, Wall Street Journal, Australian Financial Review, Wikipedia, and the Good Judgment website, I take a look at the macroeconomic drivers that will shape our leadership environment in 2023.

I also summarize some perspectives from an outstanding lecture I attended at Harvard Business School, and take a lighthearted look at the new jargon we’ll be using more frequently this year.

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Marty - Ep.182: What is Strong Leadership? Taking people where they ought to be

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The Five Best Episodes of 2022: Chosen by Marty & Em Dec 27, 2022

Episode #226 // This is the fifth Christmas for the No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast and, as we traditionally do at this time of year, Em and I are taking a look back on our catalog of episodes from 2022.

We smashed through the 3 million downloads milestone a few months ago, which is a whole lot of impact for the leaders in more than 150 countries who’ve tuned in…

But, especially if you’re new to the podcast, you may have missed a few episodes in the last 12 months. So, in an effort to make sure you still get to capture the real gold, we’ve curated what we think are some of our not-to-be-missed moments.

These episodes capture the essence of concepts like working at level, maintaining professional distance, and setting high standards for performance, even in the trickiest of circumstances. We know you’ll love this cheat sheet for getting the “best of the best” from No Bullsh!t Leadership.

Here are the links to each of the episodes we talk about:

Honourable mentions

Em -Ep.213: Getting an ROI From Your Leadership Training: Is it even possible?

Top 5

#5 - Ep.185: The Mental Health Minefield: How do you lead?

#4 - Ep.190: Leaving Space For People To Grow: Remembering Taylor Hawkins

#3 - Ep.197: Why Can’t We Be Friends? Navigating friendships as a leader

#2 - Ep.201: Finding Your Purpose: How important is it?

#1 - Ep.215: Results Or People: Which is more important?

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Handling Layoffs Competently: Protecting your talent Dec 20, 2022

Episode #225 // The restructuring and layoff season appears to be in full swing… and many of the examples that are popping up in the public domain feel a little chaotic and destructive.

This episode outlines how to handle staff layoffs so that you don’t fall into the same traps that some of the more public sh!t-shows have over the last year.

I look at the core principles that govern separation processes; I address the less obvious (but, nonetheless critical) consideration of talent management; and I give you my list of the Seven Deadly Sins of Staff Layoffs.

Although letting people go should never be done lightly, if you do find yourself in that position, it needs to be done in a way that will give you the greatest chance of salvaging value from the process, and positioning your business for future success.

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Leading Through Major Upheaval: 90% attitude, and a dash of realism Dec 13, 2022

Episode #224 // There are many upheavals that you’re likely to experience throughout your career that will challenge you. And sometimes, they’ll push you to the very edge of your personal and professional capacity.

In my corporate career, I was fortunate to be involved in a number of significant business events, which stretched me well beyond my comfort zone. I realized that I needed to change my attitude and mindset, if I wanted to come out the other end with my sanity, health, and reputation intact!

At times like these, it’s not just about managing yourself, either: you have an obligation to your team to provide strong, stable, dependable leadership. You have to be the rock that they can cling to in the middle of a raging sea.

In this episode, I deconstruct the leadership attitude and mindset that you’ll need to adopt in times of major upheaval, and give you my 7 ‘watch-its' to help you navigate the most common scenarios you’re likely to face.

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Quiet Quitting and Elon Musk: Q&A with Marty and Em Dec 06, 2022

Episode #223 // There’s a lot going on in the world of work right now. The Covid pandemic was a huge catalyst for a major shift in how people see their careers and, more importantly, their lives.

Since then, we’ve come through the Great Resignation, moved onto Quiet Quitting, and now we’re seeing mass layoffs. And the net result of all this? The latest figures in the US show a steep decline in productivity.

And then, there’s Elon Musk—always unpredictable, eccentric, and entertaining—but I don’t think he’s ever been accused of being a leadership role model.

In this Q&A episode, Em and I drill down to the heart of the matter, and offer some practical perspectives that you’ll find invaluable when trying to navigate these issues with your own people.

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The Power of Simplicity: Unlocking performance Nov 29, 2022

Episode #222 // We live in a complex world… a world where, as a leader, you have to find a way to interpret the complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity, and turn that into clarity for your people.

The ability to understand and absorb complexity, to strip it down to its most essential form, and then communicate that to others is one of the most valuable skills you can possess… and it’s a skill that can be developed over time.

There’s a big difference between making the complex simple and oversimplifying things that you don’t sufficiently understand… and to lead effectively, you need to know the difference!

In this episode, I explain how simplicity enables you to focus on the most important things, and show how to use it to offset the dilution effect of communicating through multiple organization layers. And I give you six key areas to leverage simplicity for your people that will pay you back in spades.

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Managing Supplier Relationships: Taking the long view Nov 22, 2022

Episode #221 // Times are tough. Inflation is on the rise, input costs are escalating, and organizations are tightening their belts. And it won’t be long before companies start to squeeze their suppliers in an attempt to find further cost reductions.

Unfortunately, your suppliers are facing exactly the same pressures as you. So how do you make sure that you’re getting the best deal possible from your suppliers, without putting them at risk too?

In this episode, I look at what makes a good contract (and it’s not always the cheapest). I show you some ways to extract value, other than just the blunt instrument of price reductions. And I let you in on a critical concept: the illusion of risk transfer.

You’ll learn how to go beyond the procurement process to extract maximum value from your suppliers in tough times.

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Management Consultants: Are they worth it? Nov 15, 2022

Episode #220 // Many companies use consultants of one type or another. In this episode, I give a bird’s-eye view of the consulting market, based upon my years of experience as a corporate client, engaging at many different levels.

Whether it’s developing a new corporate strategy, embarking on a restructure, improving workforce productivity, or reducing the baseline costs of the business, there’s a consultant for every occasion.

But it’s also easy to spend a lot of money with the expectation of achieving stunning results, only to realize a year or two down the track that you’re no better off than when you started.

I begin with a look at the premium end of the management consulting market, including some of the recent controversies engulfing the top firms; I offer some guidance for when to engage a consultant; and I list my big 10 traps for young players, in the hope that you can avoid some of the landmines.

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Intelligence Is Overrated: So, what matters more than that? Nov 08, 2022

Episode #219 // When it comes to business, the relationship between intellect and leadership can be fraught. A strong leader with high intellect can be incredibly effective, and make a huge difference to the companies they work for, and to every person they lead.

But highly intelligent people who rely on their intellect, to the exclusion of the leadership skills that would mobilize their people, generally struggle in the big jobs, and it often ends in tears.

There’s a massive difference between being a great leader, and being a smart executive… and, unfortunately, I’ve met many more smart executives than great leaders.

This episode explores the often counterbalanced forces of intelligence and leadership in some detail, and provides guidance on how to leverage your intellect to enhance your leadership performance.

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Is Working From Home Working? Getting back to the office Nov 01, 2022

Episode #218 // The dust is well and truly starting to settle on the Covid pandemic, and life is back to relative normality. But one of the lingering hangovers that hasn’t yet lifted is the issue of hybrid work. Many companies are increasingly keen to see their employees return to the office… but many of their people increasingly don’t want to do so.

How is the work landscape developing, and what does it mean for leaders who have to manage their people’s return to the office and, in many cases, set the rules for future expectations and behavior?

While we immerse ourselves in arguments about the productivity benefits of working from home, many people are becoming jaded with the new work paradigm, as their sense of purpose, team culture, and identity continue to decline.

In this episode, I look at the latest research, surveys, and expert opinions on the return to office minefield. In a broad-ranging episode, I explore some of the challenges that this presents, including what top executives are planning for their companies in 2023, and how to manage the 4 obstacles that could hamper a successful return to the office.

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Trusting Your Instincts: Data isn’t everything Oct 25, 2022

Episode #217 // In last week’s episode, we looked at high-impact decisions. They’re the ones that have potentially significant consequences, and strike fear into the hearts of most leaders when they have to make them.

But the vast majority of our decisions just aren’t like that. These days, where we have cheap, instantaneous access to virtually limitless amounts of data, you’d think our decisions would be noticeably better… but they’re not.

There’s no substitute for judgment, and there are times when your instincts have to guide your decisions, even to the point where they override the available data.

Today’s episode explores the fallacy of over-reliance on data in the decision-making process, and puts a case forward for greater reliance on your judgment, experience, and intuition. I also give you three focus areas to help you improve your decision-making instinct, regardless of where you are now.

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High-Impact Decisions: Getting it right when it counts Oct 18, 2022

Episode #216 // Decision-making is a key part of leadership. The ability to make high-impact decisions quickly, under pressure, in a complex and uncertain environment is a core capability for senior leaders…

If you want to reach the height of your career aspirations, it’s something you need to develop as early as possible.

We make decisions constantly: some big, some small… but all relatively important over time, because they have a cumulative effect.

High-impact decisions are different. They’re the ones that can mean the difference between life and death… or company dominance and complete collapse…

In this episode, I look at what you need to focus on when the stakes are high, and I give you my 7 hot tips for making high-impact decisions!

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Results Or People...which is more important? Oct 11, 2022

Episode #215 // Adam Grant produces a huge volume of thoughtful, intelligent, insightful content on leadership and organizational behavior. And although his podcast, Work Life, isn’t on my high rotation list, I try to catch the odd episode now and then.

When I do, I often find myself thinking two things:

The first is: “Wow, that is so good, but it would be so easy to misinterpret!”
The second is: “Wow, I agreed with you 100%, right up until the point that you said ‘x’!”

The crunch for me seems to come with the inevitable leadership trade-off: between doing the things that will make your people happy, and the (often difficult) counterbalance of getting outcomes for your organization.

In this episode, I explore the tension between people and results. How should you lead, if you want to create both? In my experience, it’s not an “either/or”…

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Lessons From Leaders Who Grow: Q&A with Marty & Em Oct 04, 2022

Episode #214 // In the last four years, we’ve had over 1,000 leaders take our Leadership Beyond the Theory program.

We’ve been fortunate to see a really broad cross-section of global leaders, and we’ve learned a lot about what makes them tick, as we’ve answered their questions in the interactive weekly webinars.

These are leaders who grow, who are actively pursuing ways to improve their leadership capability and performance. We’ve seen some common threads emerge that are virtually identical, regardless of culture, leadership level, industry, or organization size.

In this Q&A episode, Em and I share the secrets of the five key things that we’ve learnt about leaders who grow. Even leaders who are on the fast track face challenges and difficulties, and need to find practical ways to increase their performance, and enhance their career prospects.

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Getting An ROI From Leadership Training: Is it even possible? Sep 27, 2022

Episode 213 // In a sea of potentially valuable career development options, it’s hard to work out which one is right for you. It’s even harder to make sure that the value from that training isn’t lost in the weeks, months, and years after you or your people undertake it.

During my own corporate career, I saw a frustratingly large amount of money squandered on training that returned little benefit, either for the individual or the organization.

In this episode, I reveal why getting an ROI is a lot more complicated than just attending the training itself; I give you my six hot tips for maximizing your chances of making an investment in training pay off; and I give you access to a free guide to help you support your leaders’ growth through whatever leadership development program they choose to undertake.

This week, I also want to share a *free* PDF with you that maps out how to support your leader's growth when they undertake any professional development training opportunity. You can download the free PDF here.

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Your Professional Development Roadmap: Five valuable options Sep 20, 2022

Episode #212 // With so many opportunities for professional development, it’s really difficult to know which one to pursue. And the most valuable commodity you have is your own time, which is why you don’t want to waste it on learning that only delivers marginal returns.

This episode is designed to take some of the guesswork out of the professional development landscape, and make it easier for you to decide what your best options are to support your career growth in the coming year and beyond.

I take a look at the five basic development options that you can pursue to improve your career trajectory, and suggest which ones might be most appropriate for you at different career stages. All professional development options can be incredibly valuable, if you manage to use them the right way, at the right time!

If you know what your ultimate career goal is, and you know where you currently are in relation to that goal, this episode will bring some order to the chaos.

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Successful Delegation: Why is it so important? Sep 13, 2022

Episode #211 // Most leaders understand the concept of delegation pretty well, but they struggle to execute. There are any number of ways that delegation can go wrong… and even if it doesn’t actually go spectacularly wrong, unless you learn to optimize your delegation approach, you’ll never get the most out of your people.

You’ll always struggle with the massive workload that poor delegation foists upon you, and it will become a bad habit that becomes even more destructive the higher up you go. The good news is, it doesn’t have to be.

In this episode, I take you on my career journey through the maze of delegation, and how I learned from my mistakes until I eventually became an expert in every aspect of it:

Knowing what to delegate
Knowing how to delegate it
And knowing how to satisfy myself that the results would be delivered successfully, without micromanaging my people

It saved me from an unsustainable workload, and that feeling of overwhelm that I know so many leaders suffer from.

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Managing Your Time and Energy: Master this, or burn out! Sep 06, 2022

Episode #210 // We still get a seemingly endless stream of questions from leaders who feel as though they’re heading towards burnout, and have very little idea about how to stop the decline.

This ultimately comes down to being able to manage your time and energy effectively. Often, burnout is a slow creep, and it just chips away at you over time until you realize you’re not functioning at the same pace, and achieving the same performance that you used to.

You get that jaded feeling… you lose your zest and enthusiasm, and find it increasingly more difficult to keep up the energy for your team. Days that used to feel effortless become a real chore, and then you feel guilty about not bringing your best for your people.

In this episode, I give you strategies in three distinct areas that you can use to manage your time and energy, and rebuild your enthusiasm for the job, regardless of how you feel about it at this moment!

We've also put together a *free* PDF, A Leader's Time Audit, to help you make sure that you're only working on the things that really matter. D ownload the free PDF here.

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The New Leaders’ Playbook: Where do you start? Aug 30, 2022

Episode #209 // New leaders: this is the framework you need to follow if you want to be successful in your first leadership roles.

Experienced leaders: the reason so many new leaders struggle is because they’re given little direction and, as much as I hate to say this, poor role models to learn from… this is your opportunity to acquire some practical tools that you can use to coach, nurture, and develop your new leaders.

In this episode, I take a detailed look at the four key transition areas:

The mental and psychological transition;
Managing the work program;
Establishing relationships; and
Getting superior outcomes from your team.

I’ve curated a number of podcast episodes that will put practical tools and strategies in your hands, and help you master the transition to leadership, whether it’s your first leadership role, or you’re the one who has to guide a new leader through the maze.

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Breaking Into the C-Suite: What you should know Aug 23, 2022

Episode #208 // We get an incredible number of questions from our podcast community about career development. Working out how to progress in your career can be as daunting as it is mystifying. We often see other people getting promoted, and wonder how that’s even possible.

When you start to get up to the rarified air of the C-suite, it’s even harder: there’s more quality competition for fewer roles.

So, what’s the secret? How can you position yourself for a C-level role, and what would you have to do, today, to start moving in that direction (assuming it’s what you ultimately want)?

In this episode, I outline a few of the many paths that will take you to the executive level, I cover the key area of relationships and politics, and I share my five rules of thumb for breaking into the C-suite!

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Leadership Transparency: Are there limits? Aug 16, 2022

Episode #207 // Transparency in leadership is a huge topic! Virtually every leadership pundit on the planet will tell you what an important quality transparency is for a leader to possess. And they’d be right! But it isn’t black and white… there’s an incredible amount of nuance and judgment in this subject.

This episode looks at transparency from the macro level (companies and countries), right down to the day-to-day complexities you face in determining the right level of transparency to employ as a leader. It can be a lot trickier than you think!

Putting aside the big questions of ethics and confidentiality, you’ll need to make some judgment calls on the practical realities of transparency when leading large teams.

What’s the relationship between transparency and accountability? Between transparency and trust? I give you my five rules of thumb for deciding how much transparency you should bring to the most common situations you’re likely to face.

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It’s STILL Respect Before Popularity: An update on your favorite episode Aug 09, 2022

Episode #206 // The very first episode that we decided to lead out with on the No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast was Respect Before Popularity! We figured that, if we only ever released one episode, we wanted to expose leaders to this concept, above all others. And it turns out that it’s actually still our most popular episode.

So today, I want to revisit that very first episode, and give you an updated version that’s even more accessible… Let’s face it, my delivery in those early episodes was pretty sh!t :-))

But that aside, we’ve had an incredible number of leaders contact us to tell us how much of a difference the principle of respect before popularity has made to them, both personally and professionally.

In this episode, as well as recapping the original concepts, I take a deeper dive into the psychological and emotional drivers of conflict aversion, and bring a new perspective on what it takes to win respect.

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Leading in a Low-Accountability Culture: Q&A with Marty & Em Aug 02, 2022

Episode #205 // Every piece of content we produce focuses on the link between leadership and performance. Value creation is the name of the game, so knowing what value is in your context is a prerequisite to delivering it.

But, despite our laser-like focus, many of our podcast listeners work in organizations that have a very different view on performance. And many of those organizations reward people for not making waves, rather than rewarding them for making a difference.

No culture is perfect, and performance is always plotted on a continuum. But if you do find yourself on the lower end of the range, working in a low-accountability culture that isn’t focused on performance, it doesn’t mean you should fall back into the comfortable mediocrity of your peers.

In this Q&A episode we address this issue head on, and give you some tactics to use when the culture you’re working in doesn’t support you to do the leadership things that will make the most difference.

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The Big Leadership Moments: When real leaders step up Jul 26, 2022

Episode #204 // Adventurer and TV personality, Bear Grylls, (protagonist of the docuseries, Man Vs. Wild) said in an interview, “You have to come alive in the big moments... When it's NOT a big moment, you don't need to be front and centre, but when it's a big moment--BE THERE!”

That’s pretty powerful. Over the years, I’ve found it to be a defining characteristic of the best leaders I’ve seen. That’s when all the talk stops, and you get to see what people are really made of. Because you won’t see their true character until the big moment arrives.

We see examples in every area of life where some people step up in the big moments, while most people fade into the background, hoping not to be noticed.

The good news is that, wherever you are today, this is something you can learn… and it will really differentiate you as a strong leader, in whatever context you operate in!

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Defending Against Disruptive Innovation: Capability is Everything Jul 19, 2022

Episode #203 // Episode #85 of the podcast addressed one of the most important (but often misunderstood) business fundamentals: “Strategy isn’t hard: don’t overcomplicate it”. It demystified some of the core elements of competitive strategy and, hopefully, it served to make strategy a little more accessible.

I’m now shifting the focus to look at disruptive innovation. How do you defend against something you often can’t predict or anticipate? How can you prepare for and respond to disruptive events?

Market disruptions don’t come very often but, when they do, they can have devastating effects, and severely damage your company’s market share and profitability!

In this episode, I unpick the different types of innovation, and look at some sensible strategies for combating disruption in your market.

How do you build the cultural firewalls that will insulate you against the shocks that you won't see coming?

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Eliminating Selection Bias: Why is it so hard? Jul 12, 2022

Episode #202 // Despite the very vocal and public focus on Diversity & Inclusion in the last 10+ years, it still appears to be a huge struggle for most organizations. It seems that the inertia created by the entrenched structures, processes, and attitudes is way harder to overcome than anyone might have imagined.

When it comes to diversity, many countries, industries, and businesses have put rules in place to encourage speed of adoption, and to accelerate the rate of change… once again, this is clearly not working in most cases.

In the US, the National Football League (NFL) implemented something called The Rooney Rule almost 20 years ago. This rule was designed to eliminate selection bias against African American coaches in the sport, but it has recently come under severe criticism.

In this episode, I take a deep look at selection bias, and offer my seven hot tips for eliminating selection bias, and improving your hiring outcomes.

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Finding Your Purpose: How important is it? Jul 05, 2022

Episode #201 // I recently came across two articles on the role that purpose plays in your career. The first, by Marcus Buckingham, proposed the idea that finding a career with purpose is actually a lie. The second, by Tom Rath, argued that without purpose, there will be negative consequences for your long-term prosperity, happiness, and wellbeing.

Which of these is true? Are both true to some extent?

It feels as though purpose has become a panacea—“Follow your purpose”, we’re told. These days, it almost seems as though pursuing anything other than your life’s true purpose is somehow frowned upon.

In this episode, I look at the role that purpose plays in your career, and what else might matter. I also give you some ideas for putting ‘purpose’ into perspective, so that your career can be fulfilling, no matter what.

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5 Episodes That Every Leader Must Listen To! Jun 28, 2022

Episode #200 // When Em and I started the No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast in September 2018, we spent a lot of time thinking about how we would ensure that our message would stand out in the never-ending tsunami of leadership content.

We wanted our content to be clear, no bullsh!t and practical.

This might sound easy if you say it fast enough, but creating content about the complexities of navigating the workplace as a leader is incredibly difficult to do in 15-20 minutes without oversimplifying it or sounding as though we're offering a silver bullet!

Over the years we've become better at doing this, but there are some episodes that stick out more than others.

To celebrate our 200th episode, Em and I are going to talk you through the 5 episodes we believe every leader MUST listen to. If these are the only episodes you listen to out of the 200 we’ve produced, you’ll be far better off in your pursuit of exceptional leadership.

Download the list of 5 episodes here and share this graphic with your leadership network!

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Employee Engagement: Is it the right measure? Jun 21, 2022

Episode #199 // In the last 20 years, employee engagement has become the dominant method of understanding and measuring job satisfaction. There are a number of well-worn engagement surveys, which have global reach and lots of historical data that can be used for benchmarking and statistical analysis.

Many companies run an annual engagement survey, and pay close attention to the results, as if it were a key predictor of people performance. Some even reward their leaders based on improvements to this simple metric. Although an engagement survey may give you a good indication of how your people are feeling, does it really tell you how well they’re performing?

In this episode, I dive into this a little deeper to see what the reality of employee engagement is, whether it really leads to better outcomes, and what other factors are likely to give you a picture of your people’s true performance!

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Layoffs Are Back: Q&A with Marty and Em Jun 14, 2022

Episode #198 // The great resignation is in full swing, and this is causing a shortage of people in the labor market…which in turn, is pushing up wages…which in turn, is increasing the cost of doing business.

From the other side, the squeeze is coming in the form of higher inflation…which leads to higher input costs…which leads to companies raising their prices…which leads to reduced demand for their products and services.

These market forces are making it harder for companies to remain profitable. And so, the cost-cutting begins. Big tech companies like Netflix, Carvana, better.com and Peloton are laying off staff in their thousands as growth slows.

This affects people’s lives. Those who are laid off, and those leaders whose accountability it is to do the laying off, can be significantly affected by the experience.

In this Q&A episode, we look at layoffs from both sides, and give you some ideas for how to handle it, if you do happen to find yourself on either side of a layoff conversation!

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Why Can’t We Be Friends? Navigating friendships as a leader Jun 07, 2022

Episode #197 // I first outlined one of my most important leadership philosophies in Ep.14: Friendly, But Not Friends. Since then, a few things have changed…

We’ve listened to over 1,000 leaders, who’ve taken our flagship program, Leadership Beyond the Theory; societal standards have changed (yes, believe it or not, in only 3 or 4 years); Covid has come and (sort-of) gone; and I’ve been challenged by many leaders who’ve told me that they completely disagree with my Friendly, Not Friends principle.

Despite all of this, I still firmly believe in the need for professional distance between a leader and her people. In this episode, I update and reboot this important topic!

Every working relationship you develop will be different. But if you can manage to maintain professional distance, you’ll be able to lead your team more effectively, and your life will be a whole lot easier.

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Virtue Signals Aren’t Enough: Leadership requires more May 31, 2022

Episode #196 // It may surprise you to learn that organizations across the globe spend over US $370 billion annually on leadership development programs. This doesn’t include the millions of other leadership resources that we tap into each day: books, podcasts, networking groups, websites, blogs, social media posts… the content is literally everywhere you turn.

But despite this, none of it seems to move the needle. Leadership appears to be in as poor a state as it’s ever been, and people continue to cite poor leadership as the biggest issue they face at work.

Why aren’t all these leadership development efforts making a difference? Some blame surely rests with our slide towards virtue-signaling. Leadership has become about publicly expressing opinions that demonstrate good character and moral superiority, as much as anything else.

But leadership is so much more… and your people know it!

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Understanding Fuels Communication: Make the complex simple May 24, 2022

Episode #195 // Albert Einstein said, “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”.

Communication is an incredibly important element of leadership. How you talk to your team… how you deliver a presentation when you’re in a room full of important people… how well you connect one-on-one with your direct reports… these are just a few situations that can have a huge bearing on your performance, and your personal credibility.

Knowing how to convey complex information in a simple manner that’s tailored for the audience is a core skill.

There are some key principles for getting your communication right, and making sure that you have clarity in your own head about what you’re communicating before you burden those around you with an ill-formed monologue.

In this episode, I reveal my top 7 tips for effectively communicating an important message to a variety of stakeholders!

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Are Entrepreneurs Happier? Or is the grass just greener... May 17, 2022

Episode #194 // In last week’s Q&A episode with Em, I mentioned the revival of the entrepreneur in the context of the Great Resignation: there’s a growing trend for people exiting permanent jobs to start their own businesses.

This episode dives below the surface to examine this phenomenon more deeply.

Are entrepreneurs truly happier than wage-earning employees? If so, why? Are the longer hours, higher stress levels, and lower earnings compensated by the autonomy and purpose that come with being your own boss?

Every individual’s circumstances are completely different, but if you’re deciding whether to stay in your current role, change jobs, or start your own business, there are tips in here to help you!

We've also put together a free 5-point PDF checklist to help you work through whether you're ready to take the leap! Download it here: https://www.yourceomentor.com/episode194

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Navigating The Great Resignation: Q&A with Marty and Em May 10, 2022

Episode #193 // A lot of businesses are finding it extremely challenging to operate in the volatility of a hot labor market. Despite the hundreds of podcasts, blogs, and articles that are published daily about The Great Resignation, there doesn’t seem to be an oversupply of solutions (other than the vague notion that you need to focus on your people and keep them happy in order to retain them).

In many cases, “keep them happy” equates to “pay them more”. This can have significant consequences for many businesses, which are forced to either raise their prices, or cut their margins. It can be a pretty tricky game to play and, for many smaller businesses, you may find yourself one bad decision away from a death spiral.

In this Q&A episode, we answer a few listener questions that focus on specific aspects of the hot labor market. We cover the bonus culture, and people’s expectations for financial rewards; we look at the increasing number of situations where people who’ve left your business want to return; and we talk about how to leave the door open for your top performers if they do choose to leave.

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Avoiding Common Biases: What really drives our decisions? May 03, 2022

Episode #192 // We frequently hear about cognitive biases, especially when it comes to discrimination on the basis of gender, race, and sexual orientation. But our inbuilt biases operate much more broadly than this, and they can have a disproportionate influence on the outcomes we experience if we don’t develop a keen awareness of them.

In this episode, I explore some of the biases that limit our self-awareness and affect our judgment, and even some that straight-up deceive us.

As you become more familiar and aware of what these biases are, and how they affect your thinking, it’s possible to avoid their most destructive consequences. And if you manage to tame the biases that drive your decisions, your people will massively benefit from your efforts!

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