Podcast

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, ...

Episode #394: The Three Circles Of Leadership

Most leaders are not properly trained for leadership. This is especially the case in Japan. Here you study...

Houseclean The Team Every Year

Japan has a wonderful year end tradition where the entire house is given a massive clean up. Dust is dispatc...

Episode #392: The 2021 Leader

Looking back, 2020 started quite well and then rapidly descended into a nightmare for most of us. Very few ...

Episode #391: Is Japanese Leader Charisma The Same As Western Charisma

I met the owner of a successful business recently. He had bought the company twenty years ago and then pivo...

Episode #390: Leadership Silk Purses From Sows' Ears

The ad on social media said, “we are looking for sales A players”. I know the guy who put out the ad and he...

Episode #389: Namby Pamby Kids Today And Tough Love Leaders

Years ago I inverted the pyramid and promoted the best salespeople to become the branch leaders. The existi...

Episode #388: Micro Leadership Techniques

Time is the enemy of good leadership. It takes time to develop a team of individuals. A common metaphor is...