No Bullsh!t Leadership

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

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,

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

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 t

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

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

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