No Bullsh!t Leadership
No Bullsh!t Leadership is a podcast for leaders who want to become truly exceptional. Each week, host Martin G Moore shares the secrets of high performance leadership that you can't learn in business school. He offers practical advice from his experience as a successful CEO, moving beyond theoretical leadership concepts.
Episodes
How To Speak Up In High-Powered Meetings
How many times have you sat in a room full of senior people, thinking about making a great point, but never actually speaking up?In this episode, I show you how to take that step without sounding arrogant, making it personal, or risking your credibility.You have to do your homework, find a small insight that drives a big improvement, and bring it into the room in a way that gets heard… without put
4 Signs You’re Working for a Weak Leader | Moment 195
If your workload is out of control, your best people are leaving, and you feel alone and unsupported, it might be that you're working for a weak leader.In this Moment, I give you four telltale signs to look for, and some hard questions to ask yourself to work out if you’re able to stick it out.If you decide to continue working for a weak leader, you can find some techniques for improving your
What the Best CEOs Do Differently: 8 Lessons From 8 Years of CEO Mentoring
You never know what to expect when mentoring CEOs.Some run the most boring businesses you could imagine, but they generate enormous value. Other companies may seem sexy on the outside, but struggle to make ends meet. One CEO watched his revenue fall off a cliff with the stroke of a bureaucrat’s pen.Today I’m sharing eight lessons from eight years of mentoring CEOs; and you don’t need to be in the
3 Tips for Difficult Conversations: Stop Bargaining With Yourself | Moment 194
In leadership, difficult conversations come with the territory. So, if your goal is to make everyone happy… go work in a donut shop!If you want a career that lives up to your potential then, paradoxically, your ability to handle the hardest conversations is an entry-level skill.In this Moment, I share three tips to help you stop bargaining with yourself, and step into any conflict with confidence.
How to Prioritise as a Leader: 7 Ways to Stop Doing Too Much
The hardest thing I ever tried to do as an executive was to stop the sh!t that had already started: it gets a life of its own. On top of that, new work is being dreamt up all the time, further adding to your prioritisation nightmare. A recent article from The Economist argued that too many people are shockingly bad at prioritisation, and that the root cause isn't process; it's behaviour. I
Be Clear With Your People... For THEIR Sake | Moment 193
When was the last time you told one of your people exactly where they stood? If you can't remember, this Moment's for you.Your people deserve the truth, even when it's the last thing they want to hear… and the last thing you want to tell them.If you want to take a deeper dive into why you should tell your people what they need to hear, have a listen to Ep.329: Don't Feed Your Peopl
Why Transformations Fail: 5 Reasons, and 3 Ways to Cope When It's Done to You
Most transformations don't transform all that much. They cost a lot of money, they suck a huge amount of the organisation's time and energy, and no one really checks to see if the benefits were ever delivered.If you're not on the executive team, the whole thing just happens to you. But in reality, you're not as powerless as you might think.In this episode, I dig into what transform
How to Fix a Team Performance Slump: 3 Cracks to Check First | Moment 192
You may think that rolling up your sleeves and doing your team’s work is leading from the front. But it’s actually a bad habit that’s diluting your people’s capability.Every time you get involved in the nitty gritty of your people’s work, you’re trading away the opportunity to build capability for achieving a fast, high-quality result.The job at every level is different. You need to be clear on wh
5 Reasons Why One-on-Ones Are Your Secret Weapon
Airbnb CEO, Brian Chesky says he doesn't believe in one-on-ones. I couldn’t disagree more, so in this episode I show you why sometimes, even the best CEOs get this one wrong. Chesky says the 1:1 model is flawed. Not only does he not do them, but he asserted that almost no great CEO does either. To support his point, he quoted Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang, backing a similar view. Here's the p
Leaders, Should You Roll Your Sleeves Up? | Moment 191
You may think that rolling up your sleeves and doing your team’s work is leading from the front. But it’s actually a bad habit that’s diluting your people’s capability.Every time you get involved in the nitty gritty of your people’s work, you’re trading away the opportunity to build capability for achieving a fast, high-quality result. The job at every level is different. You need to be clear
Business Acumen vs Leadership: Which One Drives Performance?
During my tenure as CEO at CS Energy, we took EBITDA from $17m to $441m: we more than doubled the company’s earnings for four consecutive years.Along the way, I had to dig deep into two distinct toolkits: my business acumen, and my leadership capability. When it comes to career advancement, there’s no substitute for building a strong track record of achievement. Performance is the undeniable
Power Doesn't Corrupt: It Reveals | Moment 190
Some leaders remain uncorrupted, despite the fact that they move into increasingly powerful positions.But there are others who, at every turn, leverage whatever power they have to further their own self-interest.A leader who abuses their power wasn’t corrupted by it: they’re just using the power they have, in a way that’s entirely consistent with the person they’ve always been.If you want to take
How To Give Great Feedback | Moment 189
Your ability to give quality feedback is one of the biggest predictors of leadership success. But many leaders never master the art of difficult conversations. Like many things in leadership, business, and life, nothing beats taking consistent, focused action. In this Moment, I give you 6 tips to get you off the starting line, and build your confidence quickly. If you want to take a
How to Stay Calm Under Pressure: 6 Signs Your Team Knows
You may think that you’re highly resilient, an expert at staying calm under pressure… but your team could be experiencing something completely different. They're the ones who see your lack of composure.If you panic, that leaks onto your team. And every minute they spend managing your mood is a minute they don't spend delivering results. This is the final instalment in our 7-part series, recut
How to Make Decisions Faster: 6 Signs They're Waiting on You
When you hesitate on an important decision, it’s rarely due to missing data or insufficient consultation. It's more likely because you're afraid of getting it wrong.And as long as you delay, your people have to wait. There may be a whole string of decisions below you that can’t be made until you make yours… and if your people have to wait too long, they may just stop chasing you.This is Day 6 of a
How to Lead in Uncertainty: 6 Signs Your Team Is Frozen
One of your critical jobs as a leader is to absorb the ambiguity that you’re facing, and turn that into certainty for your people.If you can’t do that, your team will freeze; and a frozen team just looks like an underperforming team.This is Day 5 of a 7-part series, recut from a live workshop I ran called Stop Rescuing Your Underperformers. I'm looking at one leadership blind spot each day.There's
How to Focus Your Team on Value: 6 Signs They're Just Busy
When you reward long hours, instead of rewarding the results that make a difference, you're paying for effort instead of value.You can't hold someone accountable for delivery, when you've never told them what's worth delivering.This is Day 4 of a 7-part series, recut from a live workshop I ran called Stop Rescuing Your Underperformers. I'm looking at one leadership blindspot each day.There's a per
How to Stop Doing Your Team's Job: 6 Signs You're in the Weeds
When you rewrite one of your people's reports at 9pm, you're not just compensating for their weakness. You're reinforcing it.That report was their chance to learn how to do it properly. You took it on because you wanted it done right.This is Day 3 of a 7-part series, recut from a live workshop I ran called Stop Rescuing Your Underperformers. I'm looking at one leadership blind spot each day.There'
How to Stop Avoiding Difficult Conversations: 6 Signs It's You
When you have an underperformer on your team, but you haven’t given them specific performance feedback, you're reinforcing their underperformance. They may think that no news is good news, and they don’t need to do anything different.This is Day 2 of a 7-part series, recut from a live workshop I ran called Stop Rescuing Your Underperformers. I’m looking at one leadership blind spot each day.T
How to Hold Your Team Accountable: 6 Signs Nobody Owns Anything
Somewhere on your team right now there's a person who isn't delivering. You thought of their name before you got to the end of that sentence.Over the next seven days, I'm going to show you they're probably not your problem. They're a symptom of it.This is Day 1 of a seven part series, recut from a live workshop I ran called Stop Rescuing Your Underperformers. One leadership blind spot a day, for s
Stop Taking the Pressure Home: 3 Ways to Compartmentalise | Moment 188
When you feel swamped and overwhelmed, it’s easy to go home and kick the cat. But if you learn to compartmentalise, you’ll find it much easier to leave the stress of work at work (and vice versa).In this Moment, I give you 3 tips to build greater resilience, by developing your compartmentalisation skills.If you want to take a deeper dive into how to compartmentalise successfully, have a liste
How to Build a Team That Performs Without You: 16 Real Questions
We asked 800 leaders one question. What's actually hard about leadership right now?The answers were so good we decided to answer them live. No prep. No script. Em fires the questions, and I get two minutes on each.These are real questions from real leaders in our free Skool community, the No Bullsh!t Leadership Hub (https://www.skool.com/nblh).16 questions, 16 answers. And every one of them comes
How Do You Lead Your Old Team Mates? | Moment 187
Being promoted to a new leadership level is a difficult transition to make. But it’s even tougher when you’re promoted to lead the team you used to be part of.The biggest trap is that you might take the culture, the capability, and the performance of that team for granted.This Moment gives you some ways to combat your status quo thinking, and set the scene for meaningful performance improvement.If
Your Ultimate Talent Identification Checklist
Every time you fill a vacancy, you have to make a choice: do you promote someone from within, who you may know quite well, or take a punt on someone you don’t? Over my corporate career, I made both calls frequently. Sometimes, I got to pat myself on the back for how brilliant I was, but occasionally the resulting hire was so disastrous that I looked like a complete muppet in front of my team
Will You Choose to Accept the Cost of Leadership? | Moment 186
There are three costs of leadership that nobody tells you about when you get promoted; and they are a given.You can no more change them than you can avoid the pull of gravity.The best leaders accept these truths. They do the work to become comfortable in navigating them each day, knowing they are strong enough to pay that price.If you want to take a deeper dive into the toll that great leaders are
3 Mindset Shifts When You're Unhappy At Work
When leaders are unhappy at work, they often blame the company. But more often it’s a sign of dissatisfaction with their own inability to work within the constraints of the job. No job is perfect. Every role comes with constraints: things that stop you from operating at your best. Whether it’s a bad boss, a lack of resources, or unrealistic expectations, the question isn't whether your j
Better Decisions, Faster: Why Consensus Slows Your Team | Moment 185
Speed can be a performance multiplier, if you can build it into your culture. But there are going to be times when you need to back off… and part of being a great leader is recognising those times.If you want to take a deeper dive into when you should slow down, have a listen to Ep.294: Is Faster Always Better?————————You can connect with me at:Website: https://www.yourceomentor.comFacebook:
12 Execution Breakthroughs for Leading Leaders
If you're leading leaders, accountability is the first thing that breaks. You're not overloaded. You just rely too much on your own individual brilliance to get results. Until you learn to lead your leaders better, you'll never get out of the spin cycle.A few weeks ago, Em and I sat in a room with six CEOs we've been working with for the better part of a year. We asked each of them to rate their o
How to Build a No Blame, No Excuses Culture | Moment 184
McLaren won back-to-back F1 championships when the CEO replaced victimhood and blame with a culture that guaranteed top shelf performance.That wasn’t luck. He made deliberate decisions… hard decisions… that changed what was actually possible.There isn’t a team on the planet that can’t improve its performance. But it takes a strong leader, who’s committed to building a “no blame, no excuses” cultur
Stop Solving Your Team's Problems: 6 Ways to Execute Like Elon
If you look at the spectacular results that Tesla has achieved as a business, it might entice you to try to emulate Elon Musk’s leadership approach. But that would most likely be disastrous. People love to romanticise the image of the founder who’s so deep in the detail that he can solve the toughest technical problems better than his own engineers. How many LinkedIn posts extol the virt
3 Timeless Principles of Success in 4 Minutes | Moment 183
There are 3 success principles that are particularly relevant for the new world we’re leading in. And they have nothing to do with luck, talent, or connections!As labour markets change in the coming years on the back of AI, these principles need to be rock solid, if you want to succeed.If you want to take a deeper dive on success principles, have a listen to Ep.384: How to Make Success InevitableL
5 Ways To Align People's Pay With Their Value
Can you explain clearly why the people on your team are paid what they're being paid? If you can't, you may have a hidden problem eating away at your meritocracy. We've produced a few episodes over the years on remuneration structures, particularly how to link incentives to performance. This episode is all about the gap between what people believe about merit-based pay, and what actually happ
Do You Understand Your Team's Psychological Contract? | Moment 182
The psychological contract is the mutual understanding between an employer and employee about their respective obligations to each other.There are no rules for these contracts: they’re based purely on people's perceptions, and they exist in people’s heads, not in formal documents.No matter how hard you work to keep your people happy, it's never enough: privileges just become entitlements. But ther
Stop Rescuing Underperformers: How to Make Consequences Stick
Underperformers don't change because you ask them nicely. They only change when they can no longer avoid the consequences of not delivering.Every time you swoop in and rescue someone, you’re filling that performance gap on their behalf. At the same time, you’re reinforcing the fact that they never have to meet an acceptable standard, if they don’t want to. You might think you're just deliveri
How to Get More From Your 1:1 Meetings | Moment 181
As a corporate executive and CEO, the 1:1 meeting was the single most powerful weapon I had in my leadership arsenal. It was here that I mobilised my direct reports to excel.But even with that focus, I still left a lot to chance. It wasn’t until much later that I learned a technique to lock in people’s commitment to deliver.If you want to get more mileage from your 1:1s, there are three questions
The 2 Hardest Conversations You'll Have With Your Top Talent
Your top talent doesn't always quit because they're unhappy. Often, they simply can’t see what their next move is. And if that’s the case, it’s not their fault: it’s yours!Every leader I talk to at the moment is obsessed with retention; it feels like it's getting harder for them to hold onto their top performers. Job tenures are declining, but the averages often mask the real story. In this e
How to Eliminate Hiring Mistakes | Moment 180
Most job interviews are just friendly chats. They don’t provide any real due diligence.Making the right hiring choice requires a lot more than résumés and reference checks. Even personality profiling has limited utility.If you want to work out whether someone can actually do the job, you need to get good at interviewing.If you want to reduce the risk of hiring a dud, have a listen to Ep.379: Inter
Meetings: When to speak, when to listen
Meetings can be a political minefield, and most leaders rely purely on their instinct to get by: which means they get it wrong more often than they realise.This episode cuts through the noise on one of the most deceptively complex leadership skills: knowing when to talk and when to shut up. It sounds simple, but It isn't: and The Economist's "Babble Hypothesis" proves why getting the balance wrong
Why You Keep Avoiding the Hard Conversation | Moment 179
Leadership might be hard, but there’s nothing you can’t master with application and discipline. This is why the toughest challenge is often just convincing yourself to start.In this Moment, I show you exactly how to overcome the comfort of inaction, and push yourself to do the things that will ultimately pay off.I don’t care if you’re an introvert, or if you get anxiety… this is about realising yo
The Real Reason Your Team Moves So Slowly
When we think about high-performing teams, we assume they have superior strategies and top-class talent. But one characteristic we often overlook is pace. And pace doesn’t happen organically: it takes a leader to build momentum into the culture.The best teams have a relentless drive to get things done; a bias for action that cuts through everything they do. A team that has momentum feels entirely
Team Building Exercises Are Useless. Do This Instead | Moment 178
Team building exercises don’t build teams. Only leadership does.If you’re thinking about investing in time away from the office, think again. These days don’t move the needle on team dynamics, trust, or performance. If you dislike someone before the paintball game, you'll still dislike them after it.So by all means, take your team out for some fun. Just don't mistake it for culture change.For prac
AI for Leaders in 2026: Promoted or Replaced?
Have you ever sat in a meeting about AI, nodded along, then thought, "I've got no idea what they're talking about, and I'm meant to be leading this"? If so, you're in good company.In this episode, I chat with Em and AI expert James Killick to answer the question every leader is quietly asking. In 2026, does AI get you promoted, or replaced?Here's the truth. AI isn't coming for leaders. It's coming
Stop Disempowering Your People | Moment 177
Virtually every leader likes to talk about empowering their team. But if you were to ask 10 of them what empowerment actually means, you’d get 11 different answers. Over the years, the concept of empowerment has been dumbed down to make it vague and aspirational. True empowerment is neither of those things. It's a core driver of performance, and in this Moment, I give you my number one t
Dealing With an Employee You “Can't” Fire: 2 questions every leader needs to ask
Talented jerks and people who game the system just need to go. The value they bring through their technical skill is massively outweighed by the damage they do to the rest of the team.You can't motivate them. You can't inspire them. You can't lift them. So stop trying!Because while you hold onto the person destroying your culture, your good people are quietly working out that there'
How to Stop Losing Your Most Talented People | Moment 176
Your best people know they have plenty of options, so if they don’t feel the work they’re doing is valuable, challenging, and impactful, it doesn't matter how much you pay them. In this Moment, I give you 5 things you need to do to keep them.For practical tips on how to hold onto your talent, have a listen to Ep.101: Keeping the Ones You’ve Got————————Is your team performing at the standard i
Nailing Your Formal Performance Review
Most leaders DREAD the formal performance review; because they don’t prepare and they don’t know what to expect. Today I go deep on how to control the dialogue, so that your review becomes a career accelerator, rather than a spirited defense of your failings.Let’s face it: you know your performance hasn’t been perfect, so it’s easy to agonise over how your boss might evaluate you.This makes it tem
Empathy Without Weakness: How Strong Leaders Care | Moment 175
Empathy is a critical leadership capability: without it, you’ll never get the best out of your people. But if you’re not strong enough to hold the standard, that empathy will blow up in your face. Empathy builds trust; sympathy destroys performance.For practical tips on how to stay out of the sympathy zone, have a listen to Ep.135: When Empathy Becomes Sympathy————————Have you taken our free
8 Surprising Ways to Reduce Unwanted Turnover
Most leaders think high turnover is a retention problem. But it’s not; it's a leadership problem. And the fix is the exact opposite of what most leaders do.Staff turnover is still widely misunderstood. And most leaders operate from a place of fear, responding to it defensively.They tiptoe around their people, lower the standards, and tolerate poor performance so they don't rock the boat. But, iron
Want to Lift Team Performance? Manage Better | Moment 174
If you think great leaders don't need to be great managers, you've probably got a blindspot…and it's costing you more than you know.To lift performance, you have to put desirable leadership attributes aside, and learn to manage better.To access my 6 key levers of execution excellence, have a listen to Ep.371: How I learned to Produce Exceptional Results————————Have you taken our free Leadership Bl
Don't Be Sucked In By Player-Coach Leadership!
When CEOs cut management layers, they often kid themselves that they're building leaner, faster companies. But what they're actually doing is destroying accountability and weakening performance. Hiding behind fads like player-coach leadership can’t change that fact.The tech sector loves a management fad and over the years, they’ve tried them all. But the unquestioning adoption (and eventual d
Why the Participation Trophy Is Killing Your Team | Moment 173
In business, it’s an indisputable fact that stronger competition results in better outcomes for everyone. Why are we so reluctant, then, to increase competitive pressure within our teams?One of the most critical performance levers of leadership is differentiation between people; and creating a merit-based, competitive environment within your team benefits every stakeholder… especially your people.
Can You Learn Charisma?
Charisma is sold to us as a divine gift that you’re either born with… or not. We bandy the word around quite a bit… and even though charisma comes with some negative connotations, most of us wish we had more of it.Describing the things that make up charisma can be difficult: It’s quite an intangible concept, which is why it’s so easy to fall back on observable, physical attributes, like heigh
Too Much Compliance Will Kill Your Culture | Moment 172
When there’s a failure to comply with the rules, everyone’s first instinct is to look at their compliance regime. They create more rules… more controls… more safeguards…A highly motivated person driven by self-interest will find a way around even the tightest procedure. History has proven that, repeatedly.The key to achieving better performance is strong leadership, clear accountability, and a dis
Consistent Leaders Get Superior Results
Your people aren't struggling because the work is hard. They're struggling because they can't predict you. Inconsistent leadership doesn't just frustrate teams; it debilitates them.We all think we’re pretty consistent. And any time we aren’t, we’re expert at rationalising any inconsistencies.The fundamental problem is that we judge ourselves by our intentions, whereas our people judge us by our ac
Busywork Is Killing Your Team's Performance | Moment 171
What if you stopped rewarding people for being busy, and instead focused only on the value they produced?Your team would be night-and-day different.Busy is the enemy of productive. As long as you give your team a free pass for being busy, performance will elude you.If you want to go deeper on how to eliminate busywork, have a listen to Ep.366: Replacing Busywork With Real Results————————Have you t
8 Years, 400 Episodes, and the Lessons We Learned the Hard Way
What does it actually take to build a top-ranked leadership podcast from scratch, and keep it going for 400 weeks in a row?8 years ago, Em convinced me to walk away from my role as CEO of a multi-billion dollar business to build a micro-startup with a simple premise: give away your very best insights for free on the podcast, and trust that the impact will follow. Our purpose became: to improve the
4 Ways to Prevent a Crisis Before It Starts | Moment 170
Companies that are really good in a crisis are often poorly managed: their people get addicted to the adrenaline rush that comes with constantly being in firefighting mode.The best way to manage a crisis, by far, is to avoid it altogether… which takes a lot of boring, proactive work. But well-run businesses are proactive.If you want to go deeper on how to lead when the crisis does hit, have a
5 Rules for Multiplying Value Through Alliances
What if the single biggest lever for creating value in your business wasn't actually in your business at all? What if it was an alliance forged with another company?The inspiration for this topic came from an episode of the Acquired podcast, which took a deep dive into the Formula One motor racing business.F1 isn’t just a sport: it's a compelling case study in how to create value through alliances
Why a 'Family Culture' Destroys Team Performance | Moment 169
I’ve advised many CEO / Founders over the last 5 years. My first job is often to convince them that the family culture they treasure so fondly is the biggest impediment to performance improvement.In this Moment, I explore the four biggest drawbacks to family culture. But they are by no means the exclusive domain of family businesses: they’ll sound familiar to those of you who work in large listed
Champions Do Extra: 6 Leadership Habits That Separate Top Performers
Most leaders do enough to get by. A select few do extra. And that gap is almost the entire difference between a career that stagnates and one that accelerates. If you want to reach the pinnacle of your personal potential, it starts with your decision to do more than the next person. In this episode, I give you 6 ways to focus your extra effort so that it pays you back in multiples.A friend of mine
The Accountability Gap That Kills Performance | Moment 168
If you want to improve your team’s performance, single-point accountability is the biggest, most impactful lever you can pull.The culture is difficult to create, but once your people experience the virtuous circle of empowerment and accountability, that’s when they find true motivation, self-esteem, and job satisfaction.If you want to get better outcomes from your team, have a listen to Ep.365: Wh
The Leadership Trade-Offs That Make or Break Teams
Most decisions you make as a leader look reasonable on the whiteboard. But in the real world, you're rarely deciding between black and white options. You're choosing between two things that both matter: and something has to give. That's the dilemma. And how you handle it speaks volumes about the kind of leader you really are.The ability to make trade-offs confidently, separates average leader
Don't Let These 3 Mistakes Derail Your Leadership Career | Moment 167
With the benefit of hindsight, I’ve been able to isolate the 3 biggest mistakes that I made in my career as a corporate executive: they really slowed me down!I either underestimated their impact, or didn’t pay sufficient attention to them…and I paid the price.Improving one or all of these will save you years of frustration, and accelerate your career.If you want to fast-track your leadership caree
How Many Direct Reports Is Too Many?
Why your direct reports are underperforming and how to turn it around. What happens when you give one manager 50 direct reports and call it innovation? Chaos.In this episode, I cut through the corporate delusion that flatter structures are better, and I give you the insights to help you confidently build a structure that actually delivers results.I start with the fundamentals: why organisatio
Put Yourself Out There: How Leaders Get Noticed | Moment 166
Some people love to be in the thick of the action, making a difference. But the much larger majority are more comfortable watching from the sidelines.If you’re wondering what ingredients create the recipe for success, you need to know that putting yourself out there is a non-negotiable. And all it takes is a simple choice… a choice you can make today.If you want to learn how to position yourself f
What Do You Do When the Results Don't Come?
Not getting the results you expected? Don’t blame luck, because in leadership, results are rarely random, and the causes are rarely a mystery.You may feel as though you’ve done everything necessary to guarantee a decent level of performance from your team:You’ve hired some good people;You’ve resourced them appropriately; You’ve put together a work program that’s ambitious but achievable; 
How to Avoid Expensive Tech Project Failures | Moment 165
Virtually every organisation is racing to adopt AI. And, although AI offers the promise of groundbreaking productivity, the projects required to deliver it will suffer from exactly the same problems as every other IT project I’ve seen in the last 40 years.Big projects are hard, whether they’re in construction, infrastructure, or procurement. Tech is no different. But there seems to be a certain… m
The Biggest Lie in Business: Strategy Happens at the Top
Strategy starts at the top, but competitive advantage is built in the middle. Has your boss ever told you that you need to be more strategic? If you want to demonstrate your strategic ability, you need to understand the role you play in building your company’s competitive advantage.Competition isn’t won or lost based on the strategy that the board sets. It depends much more on how the strateg
The Leadership Myths That Are Holding You Back | Moment 164
A lot of contemporary leadership wisdom on the internet could just as easily be found in a fortune cookie 🥠The reason the sayings become so popular is that there’s always at least some grain of truth to them. They sound like they should be true.In this Moment, I give you an insight into why you should question everything.If you want to take a deeper dive into how to tell the difference between gen
Stop Blaming HR and Start Using It
Leaders love blaming HR for bureaucracy, red tape, and generally slowing things down. But these same leaders have no idea how to use HR properly. If you get this wrong in the age of AI, you’ll risk destroying one of the most valuable sources of insight in your company.As we sit here in early 2026, AI is about to wipe out around half of what HR does. The leaders who figure how to manage t
How to Find Every Team Member's Sweet Spot | Moment 163
Some people simply refuse to rise to the standard you’re setting for the team.Before you decide they need to go, though, it’s important to try different techniques that might ignite their intrinsic motivation.Not everyone rises to the occasion but, if you’re a good leader, you’ll give everyone the opportunity to lift.If you want to take a deeper dive into how you can tap into your people’s discret
When Your Boss Has No Backbone: The 4 Behaviours That Kill Performance
Working for a weak leader is both exhausting and suffocating. You put in the effort;
you care about the outcome; you try to lift the standard…and still, everything feels harder than it should.In this episode, I break down the four unmistakable symptoms of the spineless boss and, more importantly, exactly what you can do about each one.Because while you can’t control their backbone, you CAN co
How Small Steps Build Big Leadership Confidence | Moment 162
You can’t deal with a gap or a weak spot in your performance by ignoring it. Doubling down on your arrogance, as many leaders do, doesn’t help anyone…least of all you.If you don’t face your blind spots, they’ll dent your confidence, eventually becoming a source of fear and paranoia!This Moment will help you commit to taking that first step towards greater confidence, whatever that is for you.If yo
Do Hands-On Leaders Get Better Results?
Think hands-on leadership is a strength? You might just be the problem on your team. What's the one leadership behaviour that makes your team's heart sink when your name pops up in their inbox?The one that kills discretionary effort, drains initiative, and keeps you buried in low-value work?That would be…micromanagement!In this episode, I go deep into the difficult trade-off between getting the jo
How to Onboard New Hires the Right Way | Moment 161
Onboarding isn't admin. It's where standards, trust, and performance begin. When someone new joins the team, it’s easy to take it for granted that they’ll know what to do. But, no matter who they are, they need a comprehensive onboarding process.The onboarding process consists of two distinct parts: the administrative elements (most of which apply only to external hires); and the leadership elemen
What Do Senior Leadership Teams Actually Do?
Every executive wears two hats. Most only know how to wear one! Are you currently part of your organisation’s senior leadership team (SLT)? Or are you just watching from below, wondering what the hell they’re doing? In this episode, I look at how SLTs actually work, as opposed to how they should work.I cover off on the things that make the most difference to SLT culture, and I take a deep div
What the Best Leaders Do Differently | Moment 160
If you have ambitions to achieve excellence in anything, it’s important to tap into the wisdom of people who’ve been there before you…to stand on the shoulders of giants! Leaders are learners, and in this moment I give you key three lessons from some of the world’s most accomplished CEOs.If you want to take a deeper dive into what you can learn from those who’ve already walked the path, have
Stop Being the Bottleneck: Reset Your Leadership System
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