No Bullsh!t Leadership

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 s

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.

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 wr

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.

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

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 t

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 man

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

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

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 f

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 de

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 t

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 n

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

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 wo

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

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 bigge

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

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 g

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 t