Podcast

Episode #414: Leaders Defending The Indefensible

If the client complains directly to your staff member about their poor service, should you go to bat for you...

Episode #413: Strategic Planning In These VUCA Times

“October this year is when we can expect the turn around to kick off here in Japan”. Being the sunny optimi...

Episode #412: How To Run Brainstorming Sessions When Everyone Is At Home

Pandemics force change. We keep thinking we have turned the corner in Japan, to be just shunted further dow...

Episode #411: The New Diaspora Leadership Challenge

Winston Churchill said, “When you are going through hell, keep going”. We have all been going through hell,...

Episode #410: How Leaders Can Protect Their Clubhouse Personal Brand

The Clubhouse global audio conversation App is hot, hot, hot. It is only available on Apple iOS so far, but...

Episode #409: Zones Of Staff Performance

Recruiting and developing the perfect team is an illusion, a Fool’s Gold hot pursuit for leaders. Even if y...

Episode #408: The Listening Leader

Leaders are often poor listeners in the modern age. To listen to our team members requires the allocation o...

Episode #407: Common Leader Achille's Heels

We know the name Achilles because of Brad Pitt and Hollywood or we may have read the Iliad. He was a famous...

Episode #406: Are You Authentically Aggressive Or Assertive As A Leader

In today’s business world, leaders need to be “authentic” leaders. We have all come across this somewhere, e...

Episode #405: The Awesome Power Of The Leader

We have met them. Thrusters, mad with power and hungry to control others. Organisation insider politicians...

Episode #404: The Three Tools To Engage Your Team

Engaging your team as a leader is a relatively new idea. When I first started work in the early 70s, none o...

Episode #403: How To Be A Role Model As A Leader

Smirks appear quite quickly when you mention “role model” and “leaders” in the same breath. Most peoples’ e...

Episode #402: The New Leader Mindset Shift Needed

We are recognised for our capabilities and potential and promoted into our first leadership role. We have b...

Episode #401: Leading Online Forever

The exodus from the office started a year ago, when we decided the safest thing was for everyone to work fro...

Episode #400: Leading in the Era of Pandemics

The WHO team investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan came up empty. A lot of fairy flos...

Episode #399: To SER With Love

In the movie “To Sir, With Love”, Sidney Poitier was brilliant in the role of a black teacher in a tough Lon...

Episode #398: The Year Two Covid Danger Zone For Leaders

Covid-19 popped up out of nowhere in January 2020 and we began following the news reports about this mysteri...

Episode #397: Four Superheroes of Coaching for Leaders

We have seen Hollywood pumping out comic heroes as movie franchises to get the money flowing into the studio...

Episode #396: Working Through Others Who Are Not Working

The chain of command is a well established military leadership given. I have three stripes, you have none, ...

Episode #395: Modern Micro-Planning For Leaders

Best laid plans of mice and men. That was 2020 wasn’t it. We all started that year with our plans, hopes, ...