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EPISODE #294: Is Faster Always Better?
EPISODE #293: Leading High Performers: It’s harder than it looks!
EPISODE #292: Crafting Your Leadership Identity: Q&A with Marty and Em
EPISODE #291: Real Leaders Keep People Safe: Physically, mentally, and psychologically
EPISODE #290: Stakeholder Mastery: Moving from chaos to control
EPISODE #289: Improving Your Promotion Prospects: Getting to the next level
EPISODE #288: My Recent Epic Fail: Controlling the controllables
EPISODE #287: The Pressures Leaders Face: It’s different at every level
EPISODE #286: The Accidental Leader: It’s the most common variety
EPISODE #285: When Profits Create Problems: What can we learn from Boeing?
EPISODE #284: Giving Your Boss Feedback: How honest should you be?
EPISODE #283: Trusting Your Team: Are you making this mistake?
EPISODE #282: Celebrating 5 Million Downloads: Unpacking our podcast’s 5 success principles
EPISODE #281: Building Team Morale: Confident, Secure, and Enabled to Perform
EPISODE #279: Crush Your Career in 2024
EPISODE #278: The Five Best Episodes of 2023 as Chosen by Marty & Em
EPISODE #277: Our Best and Worst of 2023: The YCM end of year stocktake
EPISODE #276: Building Leadership Confidence: Small steps yield BIG results!
EPISODE #275: When Should You Let Someone Go? Are Guenther’s days numbered?
EPISODE #274: Taking Control of Your Future: Q&A with Marty and Em
EPISODE #273: Leadership is Never Black or White: 1,000 annoying shades of gray
EPISODE #272: How to Ask Excellent Questions: Nailing Interviews, Networking and Negotiations
EPISODE #271: The Wellness Puzzle with Kristel Bauer
EPISODE #270: Squeezing the Juice from Innovation: Maximizing the value of creativity
EPISODE #269: Performing After Promotion: From peer to leader
EPISODE #268: How to get through to your people: Use this golden question
EPISODE #267: Management vs. Leadership: What’s the difference?
EPISODE #266: What the Best CEOs Do: Achieving Aspirational Performance
EPISODE #265: Leadership’s Most Underrated Ingredient
EPISODE #264: Controlling Without Micromanaging: Getting the balance right
EPISODE #263: How I Keep Learning: My 5 Hot Tips
EPISODE #262: Don’t Let Your Career Stall: A Q&A with Marty & Em
EPISODE #261: Do You REALLY Understand Value? The bedrock of team success
EPISODE #260: Setting The Bar: Raising the standard of leadership excellence
EPISODE #259: The Things I Wish I’d Learned Earlier: Hindsight and maturity
EPISODE #258: Future Trends in Business: Where are we heading?
EPISODE #257: Your Leadership User Manual: Clarifying expectations for success
EPISODE #256: Barriers to Building Emotional Intelligence with Dr Rebecca Heiss
EPISODE #255: Building a Better Mousetrap: The productivity reality
EPISODE #254: What the Best Leaders Do Differently: An Interview with Scott J Miller
EPISODE #253: Lifters and Leaners: The contribution mentality
EPISODE #252: Hard Lessons of the Ego: The pride before the fall
EPISODE #251: Indispensable Workplace Competencies: Getting to the top…
EPISODE #250: Leveraging Parenthood into Performance: Marty interviews Em
EPISODE #249: Self-Driven Success: Navigating your own professional growth
EPISODE #248: The CEO and the Board: Are outcomes improving?
EPISODE #247: Achieving Operational Excellence: Leading sustainable improvement
EPISODE #246: The Curse Of Short-Term Focus: Finding a balance
EPISODE #245: Drive For Performance? Or Bullying? Sometimes, it’s a fine line…
EPISODE #244: Cracking the Performance Management Code: A Q&A with Marty & Em
EPISODE #243: Credibility: The Hallmark of Great Leaders: What does it take?
EPISODE #242: Leading Older Workers: Capturing the value opportunity…
EPISODE #241: Need More People? How do you convince your boss?
EPISODE #240: The Talented Jerk: How much should you tolerate?
EPISODE #239: Leading In a Low Performance Culture: Can it work?
EPISODE #238: Navigating Toxic Work Cultures & Office Politics: A Q&A with Marty & Em
EPISODE #237: Hiring Better People: Are personality profiles useful?
EPISODE #236: It’s All in The Mind: The mental game of leadership
EPISODE #235: Our Framework Facelift: No Bullsh!t Leadership evolves
EPISODE #234: Employee to Entrepreneur: The Art of Self-Leadership with Amy Porterfield
EPISODE #233: The 4-Day Work Week: Q&A with Marty & Em
EPISODE #232: What Motivates Your People?: Revisiting a critical truth
EPISODE #231: Talent Management: Planning for the future
EPISODE #230: Too Many Cooks: Managing complex accountabilities
EPISODE #229: Confidence, Arrogance, and Self-Doubt: The fine lines we tread…
EPISODE #228: Resilience Myths: What really makes you stronger?
EPISODE #227: Leadership in 2023: What will we be navigating?
EPISODE #226: The Five Best Episodes of 2022: Chosen by Marty & Em
EPISODE #225: Handling Layoffs Competently: Protecting Your Talent
EPISODE #224: Leading Through Major Upheaval: 90% attitude, and a dash of realism
EPISODE #223: Quiet Quitting and Elon Musk: Q&A with Marty & Em
EPISODE #222: The Power of Simplicity: Unlocking performance
EPISODE #221: Managing Supplier Relationships: Taking the long view
EPISODE #220: Management Consultants: Are they worth it?
EPISODE #219: Intelligence is Overrated: So, what matters more than that?
EPISODE #218: Is Working From Home Working? Getting back to the office
EPISODE #217: Trusting Your Instincts: Data isn’t everything
EPISODE #216: High-impact Decisions: Getting it right when it counts
EPISODE #215: Results or People… Which is more important?
EPISODE #214: Lesson From Leaders Who Grow: Q&A with Marty & Em
EPISODE #213: Getting an ROI from Leadership Training: Is it even possible?
EPISODE #212: Your Professional Development Roadmap: Five valuable options
EPISODE #211: Successful Delegation: Why is it so important?
EPISODE #210: Managing Your Time and Energy: Master this or burn out!
EPISODE #209: The New Leaders’ Playbook: Where do you start?
EPISODE #208: Breaking into the C-Suite: What you should know
EPISODE #207: Leadership Transparency: Are there limits?
EPISODE #206: It’s STILL Respect Before Popularity: An update on your favorite episode
EPISODE #205: Leading in a Low-Accountability Culture: Q&A with Marty and Em
EPISODE #204: The Big Leadership Moments: When real leaders step up
EPISODE #203: Defending Against Disruptive Innovation: Capability is everything
EPISODE #202: Eliminating Selection Bias: Why is it so hard?
EPISODE #201: Finding Your Purpose: How important is it?
EPISODE #200: 5 Episodes That Every Leader Must Listen To!
EPISODE #199: Employee Engagement: Is it the right measure?
EPISODE #198: Layoffs Are Back: Q&A with Marty and Em
EPISODE #197: Why Can’t We Be Friends? Navigating friendships as a leader
EPISODE #196: Virtue Signals Aren’t Enough: Leadership requires more
EPISODE #195: Understanding Fuels Communication: Make the complex simple
EPISODE #194: Are Entrepreneurs Happier? Or is the grass just greener?
EPISODE #193: The Great Resignation: Q&A with Marty and Em
EPISODE #192: Avoiding Common Biases: What really drives our decisions
EPISODE #191: Are You a Hypocritical Leader? You may be surprised
EPISODE #190: Leaving Space for People to Grow: Remembering Taylor Hawkins
EPISODE #189: Successful Transformation: Is there such a thing?
EPISODE #188: It’s Hard to Say Sorry: So when should you?
EPISODE #187: Avoiding Burnout: Streamlining your leadership approach
EPISODE #186: Your Personal Leadership Audit: Discovering your leadership blindspots
EPISODE #185: The Mental Health Minefield: How do you lead?
EPISODE #184: Exiting Gracefully and Asking for More: Q&A with Marty and Em
EPISODE #183: Mentors, Coaches, and Trusted Advisors: What’s the difference?
EPISODE #182: What is Strong Leadership? Taking people where they ought to be
EPISODE #181: Leading with EQ: Arman Assadi Interview
EPISODE #180: The Family Culture: Is it a good thing?
EPISODE #179: Survival of the Fittest: Is it the path to high performance?
EPISODE #178: Visibility in a Remote World: Appearances can be deceiving
EPISODE #177: The Billable Hours Dilemma: Breaking the paradigm
EPISODE #176: When You Don’t Get the Job: What next?
EPISODE #175 Crush Your Career in 2022: Making bold moves
EPISODE #174 The Five Best Episodes of 2021: Chosen by Marty & Em
EPISODE #173 Paul Scurrah Interview: Inside Life at the Top
EPISODE #172 Stop Doing Your People’s Work: Lead them to do it
EPISODE #171 The Christmas Danger Zone: Q&A with Marty and Em
EPISODE #170 Epic Team Building Fails: It’s hard not to be cynical
EPISODE #169 The Pursuit of Perfection: Sounds noble, doesn’t work
EPISODE #168 Political Sabotage at Work: Surviving the shark tank
EPISODE #167 Getting Ahead of the Next Crisis: An ounce of prevention
EPISODE #166 Don’t Mollycoddle Your People: They’re paid to do a job
EPISODE #165 The Future of Leadership with Jacob Morgan
EPISODE #164 Leadership Not For You? Here are your options
EPISODE #163 Communicating Value and Acing Accountability: Q&A with Marty & Em
EPISODE #162 Managing Up: A cheat sheet
EPISODE #161 A No Bullsh!t Interview with Martin G. Moore and Riaz Meghji
EPISODE #160 From Idea to Amazon: The story behind the book
EPISODE #159 Don’t Lose Your Best People: Competing in the Labor Market
EPISODE #158 The Blame Game: It’s not me, it’s you!
EPISODE #157 From Kitchen Table To Global Icon: Samantha Wills Interview
EPISODE #156 Managing Your Ambition: Don’t win, only to lose
EPISODE #155 Leadership Lessons From Tokyo: What the Olympics taught us
EPISODE #154 Return to Work Rules: Are vaccination mandates good?
EPISODE #153 Covid Communication and Comparisonitis: Q&A with Marty & Em
EPISODE #152 Managing Your Career with Laurie Ruettimann
EPISODE #151 Motivating Process Workers: Mundane Jobs Are Tough
EPISODE #150 Does Size Matter: Leading Smaller Businesses
EPISODE #149 The Nike Boss: “Just Do It”
EPISODE #148 Stretching Your People (Without Breaking Them)
EPISODE #147 Huddles, Handovers and Peer Envy: Q&A with Marty & Em
EPISODE #146 Succession Planning: Preparing for the future
EPISODE #145 Humour is Underrated: Leadership should be fun!
EPISODE #144 The Skills Shortage: Attracting and retaining the best
EPISODE #143 Believing Your Own Bullsh!t: The Emperor’s New Clothes
EPISODE #142 Gossip, Chit-chat, and Basecamp: Q&A with Marty and Em
EPISODE #141 Mastering Risk: Improving every decision
EPISODE #140 Horrible Bosses and Managing Up: Q&A with Marty and Em
EPISODE #139 Fighting Fear: What does it take?
EPISODE #138 It’s Not WHAT You Know, It’s WHO You Know!
EPISODE #137 Professional Gamer to Marketing Icon: Interview with Eric Siu
EPISODE #136 Should I Stay or Should I Go? Making a career move
EPISODE #135 When Empathy Becomes Sympathy: What’s the difference?
EPISODE #134 Being “More Strategic”: Whatever THAT means!
EPISODE #133 Elite Athlete to Top Executive: Interview with Luc Robitaille
EPISODE #132 What Do CEOs Do? A day in the life
EPISODE #131 The Emotional Toll of Leadership: Successful self-management
EPISODE #130 Counterintuitive Truths: The success mindset
EPISODE #129 Executive Breakthrough: Interview with Michelle Foley
EPISODE #128 The Promotion Dilemma: Q&A with Marty & Em
EPISODE #127 Leading With Purpose: Is it ‘the new black’?
EPISODE #126 Selling Your Proposal: Getting the boss on board
EPISODE #125 Can You Coach Character? What strong leaders do
EPISODE #124 Overcoming Stage Fright: Presentation Hacks
EPISODE #123 Failures in Leadership: Notable cases from 2020
EPISODE #122 Crush Your Career in 2021: Planning a strong recovery
EPISODE #121 The Five Best Episodes of 2020
EPISODE #120 Live Mentoring Session #5: The Politics of Transformation
EPISODE #119 Change Fatigue: Is it a thing?
EPISODE #118 Working to Live: Q&A with Marty & Em
EPISODE #117 Managing Natural Tensions: The balance of value
EPISODE #116 Receiving Feedback: Accept the gift graciously
EPISODE #115 Does Innovation Create Value? Sexier isn't always better
EPISODE #114 Making a Role Your Own: Play to your strengths
EPISODE #113 Unlocking Diversity: The Power of Difference
EPISODE #112 Is Gut Feel a Thing? Q&A With Marty & Em
EPISODE #111 The Leadership Meeting Cadence: Bringing the concepts to life
EPISODE #110 Getting in the Arena: At least have a go
EPISODE #109 Servant Leadership: Does it work?
EPISODE #108 Workplace Romance: What could possibly go wrong?!
EPISODE #107 Resilience, Faith, and Optimism: The Stockdale Paradox
EPISODE #106 Live Mentoring Session #4: Enabling Your People
EPISODE #105 Steadying the Ship: Following an incompetent predecessor
EPISODE #104 Balancing the Load: Keeping Perspective
EPISODE #103 When You're Ready to Commit: Leadership Beyond the Theory
EPISODE #102 Leaving a Legacy: The curse of short-termism
EPISODE #101 Keeping the Ones You've Got: Talent retention
EPISODE #100 Where To From Here? 100th Episode Special
EPISODE #99 Don't Play One Season Too Many: When it's time to go
EPISODE #98 Effective Delegation: Q&A with Marty and Em
EPISODE #97 Addiction in the Workplace: Managing the fallout
EPISODE #96 Performance Reviews: Valuable or destructive?
EPISODE #95 The Joys of Outsourcing: It's not all beer and skittles
EPISODE #94 Live Mentoring Session #3: Execution excellence
EPISODE #93 COVID-19 Leadership Scorecard: Who are the standouts?
EPISODE #92 The Leadership Dance: A winning mindset
EPISODE #91 Respecting your elders: Should age matter?
EPISODE #90 Live Mentoring Session #2: Driving value
EPISODE #89 Are all projects doomed? The 'on time, on budget' myth
EPISODE #88 Rolling your sleeves up: Is this leading from the front?
EPISODE #87 Live Mentoring Session #1: Decision Making Frameworks
EPISODE #86 The Silver Lining on the Pandemic: Long term positives from COVID-19
EPISODE #85 Strategy isn't hard: don't overcomplicate it
EPISODE #84 Being right isn't everything... it's just a good start
EPISODE #83 Leading a fragmented workforce: Q&A with Marty & Em
EPISODE #82 Leading through Crisis: Calm, capable, and confident
EPISODE #81 Jack's Legacy: The good, the bad, and the ugly
EPISODE #80 Decision Fatigue: Is it really a thing?
EPISODE #79 Where Accountability and Culture Collide: Q&A with Marty
EPISODE #78 Refereeing your Leaders' Disputes: Balancing tension and harmony
EPISODE #77 Can Your Team Handle the Pressure? Performing when the chips are down
EPISODE #76 The Family Affair: Making founder-led businesses work
EPISODE #75 Negotiation Fundamentals: Life is a Negotiation
EPISODE #74 The Curse of the Middle Manager: All Pain, No Glory?
EPISODE #73 Busy Work: Turning effort into value
EPISODE #72 Climate Change Unplugged: How outraged should we be?
EPISODE #71 New Industry? No Problem! Success through Leadership
EPISODE #70 Crush Your Career in 2020
EPISODE #69 The Five Best Episodes of 2019
EPISODE #68 The Price of Leadership Weakness: Your people suffer most
EPISODE #67 Simplicity and Focus: Execution excellence
EPISODE #66 No Noise = No Change: Is your change initiative really working?
EPISODE #65 How do you Make Someone Change? Leadership Arrogance
EPISODE #64 Redundancies and Restructures: It's not personal
EPISODE #63 Reading the Play: Situational leadership
EPISODE #62 Leading People Who Are Smarter Than You: Q&A with Marty
EPISODE #61 Learning to Say "No": With strength and clarity
EPISODE #60 Leading Remote Teams: Outcomes, not inputs
EPISODE #59 Epic Presentation Fails: How to avoid them
EPISODE #58 Imposter Syndrome and Other Dilemmas: Q&A with Marty
EPISODE #57 Challenge, Coach, Confront: The leader's basic toolkit
EPISODE #56 Dealing with Change Resistance: You will have to shoot a hostage
EPISODE #55 Successfully Onboarding New People: You're here, so now what?
EPISODE #54 Managing the Board: Healthy relationships and clear accountabilities
EPISODE #53 Don't Overdo Collaboration: Working effectively across boundaries
EPISODE #52 Behind the Scenes of No Bullsh!t Leadership
EPISODE #51 The Millennial Dilemma: Is the future of leadership in good hands?
EPISODE #50 Are all Leaders Incompetent? Beating the Peter Principle
EPISODE #49 When the Boss Overrules: Analysing the Captain's Call
EPISODE #48 Building Trust and Managing Change: Q&A with Marty
EPISODE #47 Common Leadership Misconceptions: What should we really be striving for?
EPISODE #46 The People Who Built The House Can't Renovate It: Building the right team for change
EPISODE #45 Leaders Are Learners: Lessons from everyday life
EPISODE #44 The Standard You Walk Past Is The Standard You Set
EPISODE #43 People Follow Resilient Leaders: Keeping your cool, 24/7
EPISODE #42 First, Create Value: Developing the right leadership mindset
EPISODE #41 You're changing...so now what? Q&A with Marty
EPISODE #40 Building a Balanced Team: If you want to win, all players need to be strong
EPISODE #39 Getting Results When You Don't Have Control: The power of influence
EPISODE #38 Communicating With Impact: Cutting through with the written word
EPISODE #36 If Money Doesn't Motivate, What Does? Tapping into discretionary effort
EPISODE #35 Driving Value From Your People: Establishing a winning culture
EPISODE #34 When It's Time For Someone To Go: Handling the most difficult conversations
EPISODE #33 Regulation Can't Fix Culture: When a whole industry is at a crossroads
EPISODE #32 Listener Insights: Handing over the mic
EPISODE #31 Don't Shoot the Messenger: Building a culture of healthy challenge
EPISODE #30 When Money Doesn't Motivate: What every leader should know about paying people
EPISODE #29 Winning Without Self Interest: How long term focus pays off in multiples
EPISODE #28 Your Peers Are Really Smart Too: What will differentiate you?
EPISODE #27 Unleashing the Power of your People: How empowerment and support drive results
EPISODE #26 The Roadmap to Exceptional Leadership Part 2: The 7 Pillars of Leadership Performance
EPISODE #24 Building Organisational Capability Part 2: Making it part of your culture
EPISODE #23 Building Organisational Capability Part 1: What is it?
EPISODE #22 Feedback Made Easy: Mastering the skill of giving feedback to your team
EPISODE #21 Education vs Experience: Balancing your toolkit
EPISODE #20 Make Great Decisions: Getting the most out of your team
EPISODE #19 Execution For Results: Driving accountability in your team
EPISODE #18 What will you do as a leader in 2019? Setting yourself up for success
EPISODE #17 The Best Episodes of 2018 as chosen by Marty and Em
EPISODE #15 Stranded By The Boss: Promotion without support and training
EPISODE #14 Friendly But Not Friends: Appropriate leader relationships
EPISODE #13 Don't Outshine The Boss: Working with an insecure leader
EPISODE #12 The War For Talent: Attracting and keeping the best people
EPISODE #11 Pale, Male, and Stale: Diversity is harder than it looks
EPISODE #10 Are Company Values Meaningless? Lead through your OWN values
EPISODE #9 How to give your boss feedback & maintain your mojo: Q&A with Marty
EPISODE #8 Are Happy Workers Productive Workers? What really drives your people
EPISODE #7 Working At The Right Level: What got you to here won't get you to there
EPISODE #6 The Psychology of Feedback: Stop avoiding leadership work
EPISODE #5 Using Power Wisely: Why HOW we get results actually matters
EPISODE #4 What is leadership...really? Stepping back to ask the big question
EPISODE #3 Excellence Over Perfection: Laying the foundations for successful execution
EPISODE #2 Building a High Performing Team: Weak team = poor results
EPISODE #1 Respect Before Popularity: Letting go of the need to be liked