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No Bullsh!t Leadership

No Bullsh!t Leadership is a podcast for leaders who want to become truly exceptional. Each week, your host, Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Martin G Moore, shares the secrets of high performance leadership; the career accelerators that you can’t learn in business school, and your boss is unlikely to share with you. Step away from the theoretical view on leadership, and learn from a successful CEO who’s already walked the path. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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4:35

Moment #42: Why You Shouldn’t ‘Just Do It!’

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/11/12

Moment #42 // Have you ever questioned your boss about a particular task, and at the end of a brief exchange, he simply says: “Look, just do it, OK?”Although I’m sure no one sets out to become a Nike boss, sometimes it’s simply the product of a leader being overworked… or not having sufficient information about why something needs to be done… or because explaining would be difficult and time-consuming… or because it may potentially put them in a situation of escalating conflict.Nike bosses are hard

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28:02

The Wellness Puzzle with Kristel Bauer

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/11/07

Episode #271 // In today’s evolving world of business, there’s an ever-increasing focus on employee wellness. Mental health, which was a taboo subject until fairly recently, now has to be front-of-mind for every leader.A leader’s duty of care for their people used to be confined to the workplace. Now, there’s an increasingly broad interpretation of a leader’s obligations to look after their people, which is much more holistic, and reaches well beyond the boundaries of the workplace.And still, the

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4:57

Moment #41: My script for setting the standard

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/11/05

Moment #41 // It can be a little daunting to take on a new role, especially when it's at a higher level than the roles you've previously held.Whether you’ve been promoted internally, or appointed from outside the company, you need to set strong expectations right from the get go. It's really important to stamp your mark on a new role early.People need to know what to expect from you… and the more clarity you can give them, the better.You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to

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17:51

Squeezing the Juice from Innovation: Maximizing the...

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/10/31

Episode #270 // Innovation is key to sustained performance. Whether we look at it from a company perspective, or at the level of countries and global economies, innovation fuels productivity and growth.We’ve seen this over and over throughout the centuries, where a technological or scientific breakthrough has driven new levels of prosperity that were previously unimagined.We now live in the most affluent times in human history. Our life expectancy and our standard of living is massively higher than

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4:55

Moment #40: How to REALLY get results

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/10/29

Moment #40 // Simplicity goes hand-in-hand with focus. We all try to do too much, for all the right reasons, and with the best intent. But, more often than not, this is incredibly counter-productive.As a leader, value, performance, and forward momentum all rely on having a crystal clear focus on the right things. But this is hard to achieve, because perfectionism hides in complexity. Even though The Pursuit of Perfection sounds noble, more often than not it’s simply masking the fear of getting

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19:29

Performing After Promotion: From peer to leader

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/10/24

Episode #269 // One of the positive (and virtually inevitable) outcomes of improving your leadership confidence and capability is that your opportunities for promotion start to come thick and fast. And there’s a reason for this: as your leadership skill improves, so do the results that your teams achieve.But when you've already achieved best-in-class performance, you’re expected to know what you're doing in any given situation. The people who promote you assume that you'll continue to be largely

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4:31

Moment #39: Does Your Education Determine Your...

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/10/22

Moment #39 // Formal education is important to establish a baseline for your career. It’s like buying a ticket to the dance. But management and leadership education comes later in your career, and it’s often valued very differently, depending on where you live.In Australia, an MBA is entirely optional… in the US, it’s essential if you’re serious about progressing to the heights of corporate America.No matter where you live, though, education in all its forms is there to support your development so

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18:30

How To Get Through To Your People: Use this golden...

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/10/17

Episode #268 // We know that every individual is unique, and despite all the conventional wisdom about how to motivate people, everyone is completely different in regard to what drives them.In my experience, you never really know what’s going to switch the lights on for someone. You just have to keep trying, over and over, to reach every single person. This means you have to use different (sometimes novel) techniques, and varying levels of pressure.When you see a breakthrough, it’s priceless… it’s

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6:36

Moment #38: Does More Information = Better Decisions?

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/10/15

Moment #38 // Is the virtually limitless supply of cheap, instantaneously-accessible information making it easier for us to make decisions? And are those decisions any better than the ones we made 20 years ago?Malcolm Gladwell says, “We clutter our decision-making process with extraneous information in the hope that it makes us better off in the end. It's a fool's game.”This moment reminds us to focus on what's most important. Too much information just makes it harder for us to process the

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17:08

Management vs. Leadership: What’s the difference?

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/10/10

Episode #267 // Every so often, we produce an episode of No Bullsh!t Leadership that challenges conventional leadership wisdom. I call them my 'myth buster' episodes, and in the past, I’ve taken on some of the most widely accepted axioms:Are happy workers really productive workers?Why is leading from the front a bad idea?Why do consensus-based decisions deliver inferior outcomes?Why is imposter syndrome good for you?Challenging conventional wisdom is tricky, because there’s always at least some

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Moment #37: Shifting Mindsets for Inclusive Hiring

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/10/08

Moment #37 // There's no doubt that systemic bias exists in hiring - but sometimes, even with the best intentions, it's really difficult to improve diversity. Quite often, you’re simply dealing with a shallow pool of talent.Entrenched beliefs and attitudes at lower levels of an organization act as a barrier to progress - not just for women, but for any minority group that's not the typical appointee.The homogenous, safe candidate is effectively ‘green lit’ all the way through the process. It's

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21:23

What the Best CEOs Do: Achieving Aspirational...

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/10/03

Episode #266 // Some of the most impactful transformation work that I saw in large industrial firms came as a result of McKinsey’s involvement: everything from procurement to capital productivity, and operational performance.Last year, three McKinsey partners published a book titled, CEO Excellence: The six mindsets that distinguish the best leaders from the rest.After examining more than 20 years’ worth of data on 7,800 CEOs from 3,500 public companies, they conducted detailed interviews with 67

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4:20

Moment #36: Is Your Team Addicted to Crisis?

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/10/01

Moment #36 // Well-run businesses can be boring. They don't experience frequent crises and they don't encounter surprises at every turn. Why? Because the leaders understand risk, and they plan accordingly, avoiding the majority of disasters that other companies routinely face.Poorly-run companies thrive on crisis management and firefighting. Once this becomes the predominant culture, people become comfortable living in a break/fix cycle.There's never any real focus on eliminating the root cause of

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20:45

Leadership’s Most Underrated Ingredient

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/09/26

Episode #265 // Em and I work our butts off every day to produce high-quality, practical leadership content that you can apply immediately, to improve your team’s capability and performance.And, even though we talk about the emotional, psychological, and mental barriers that have to be overcome to achieve leadership excellence, what I don’t often talk about is the personal investment in the relationship capital that makes all this possible.You may have heard me talk about the need to establish a

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3:53

Moment #35: Roadmap to the C-Suite

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/09/24

Moment #35 // There are many ways to end up in the C-suite. You can just choose to work hard, and wait for your promotions.But, in larger organizations, this can take many years. And, at each new layer, you're in competition for the next spot above you with a bunch of other smart, ambitious people from both inside and outside your organization.Even though I’d never hold up my own career path as something you should try to emulate, there are some interesting learnings to take from it. Interestingly,

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16:53

Controlling Without Micromanaging: Getting the...

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/09/19

Episode #264 // I read an article in the MIT Sloan Management Review, titled The Art of Balancing Autonomy and Control, which outlines how to get the best results from the innovation activities your company undertakes. The moral of the story is, nose in, fingers out!This led me to think more broadly about the concept of autonomy v control, in particular how it relates to optimizing both performance and employee satisfaction.If you give your people too much autonomy, you risk wasting a lot of effort

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3:54

Moment #34: The Power of Transparent Leadership

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/09/17

Moment #34 // They say that the best disinfectant is sunlight, and I'm a huge believer in that principle. If my direct reports in CS Energy heard it once they heard it a thousand times: transparency is everything.But just how much transparency should you give to your people? Issues of trust, accountability, confidentiality, and context all play a part in how much transparency it’s reasonable to offer. Like many areas of leadership, it can be a complex balance!I wrote an article on this subject for

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20:33

How I Keep Learning: My 5 Hot Tips

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/09/12

Episode #263 // After speaking to a group of Executive MBA students last week, I had pause to reflect on my career journey, my educational choices, and what I considered to be the determinants of my modest success to date.If I really distilled the key things that have helped me to grow rapidly over the years, what would they be? I’ve often said that leaders are learners, but you could spend a lot of time these days consuming information, without getting traction: and by traction, I mean gaining the

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3:50

Moment #33: Overcoming the Need to be Liked

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/09/10

Moment #33 // Why is it so difficult to get over the need to be liked? Because it’s completely ingrained… it's programmed into all of us. It's part of our DNA and it's controlled by our reptilian brain. It's an instinctive response.But, counterintuitively, to be a competent leader you have to overcome that fundamental evolutionary urge.Putting Respect Before Popularity requires a huge amount of empathy, which is why it’s so important to have a highly-developed EQ. Isn't it ironic that the road to

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18:09

Don’t Let Your Career Stall: Q&A with Marty and Em

No Bullsh!t Leadership ·

2023/09/05

Episode #262 // Really good people get stuck in their careers, for all sorts of reasons. Sometimes, it’s obvious why it’s happening to them, and other times it’s a little more perplexing.We get questions from our leadership community all the time relating to career progression, and they come from all levels—even C-suite executives who want to break into their first CEO role:What do hiring managers look for?What foundational behaviors and capabilities do you need?How do you become “more strategic”?In

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