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Management Today"s Leadership Lessons

Management Today

Management Today"s Leadership Lessons podcast is aimed at entertaining, educating and inspiring people to be better leaders. The podcast delves into the world of leadership and management, bringing fresh insights, trends and advice to the ears of busy senior leaders. We interview CEOs, founders, authors, executive coaches, business professors and other experts to discover the real secrets to effective leadership. We also provide crucial insight into some of the biggest business stories of the day to

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16:27

Rule of three: the CEO of Hitachi Vantara’s formula...

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2025/04/24

“We as humans can remember three things,” says Sheila Rohra, CEO of Hitachi Vantara. It is this rule of three, then, that is central to her formula for “staying focused”, as well as her approach to devising a strategy the whole company can “rally around”.Rohra was appointed to her role in November 2023, after joining the data storage systems company earlier in the year as chief strategy officer. As this week’s guest on Leadership Lessons, Rohra also talks about how Hitachi Vantara is transforming

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9:37

Unilever’s new chief exec and how to achieve growth...

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2025/04/17

On this week’s episode of The Debrief, MT’s editorial team discusses Unilever’s recent CEO change and how to keep driving your business forward even in unfavourable market conditions.The ousting of Hein Schumacher after little more than a year and a half in Unilever’s top job seemed to many to come as a bolt from the blue. “We are gobsmacked,” was how one analyst at RBC Capital summed up the reaction among colleagues. But even in the announcement the company put out about the change there were clues

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35:33

Wavemaker UK’s CEO and COO on how ‘dual leadership’...

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2025/04/03

Business wins and losses are part of life for a media agency, but sometimes the losses can start to outpace the wins and – for whatever reason – negative momentum takes hold.This was the difficult backdrop against which Kelly Parker and Katie Lee were appointed to the roles of Wavemaker UK CEO and COO respectively in 2022. In Parker’s words, the agency had had a “really bad year” in 2021, losing a “large number” of its top 10 clients. “I think it just lost its way as a business,” she says.Three

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11:20

Reeves’ first Spring Statement and disruptive AI...

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2025/03/27

On this week’s episode of The Debrief, MT’s editorial team dissects the Spring Statement and takes a look at some of the AI-driven innovations that are disrupting industries.It’s the economy, stupid. James Carville’s immortal (and loosely quoted) words must echo in the ears of every Chancellor, charged with the most knotty and important brief of them all. Last week, we asked leaders how well Labour was doing on the economy; this week, Rachel Reeves got the chance to update us on her plans for

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24:11

Cisco’s UK&I CEO: The digital skills gap is an...

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2025/03/20

UK businesses are failing to adapt the skillsets of their teams in response to the rapid advancements in the technology sector, contributing to a nationwide digital skills gap.This is the view of Sarah Walker, UK & Ireland CEO of the digital communications conglomerate Cisco, who believes that it is crucial to engage individuals at the outset of their careers, as well as normalise reskilling throughout all stages of career development.In this week's episode, she discusses Cisco’s strategies for

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17:46

AI’s hidden costs, the lure of US investment, and the...

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2025/03/13

In this week’s episode, the team discusses whether British businesses are becoming too reliant on the US, the link between more women on boards and higher returns, and the elephant in the room during conversations around AI adoption.A key concern that is often left out of conversations around AI is its impact on the environment, particularly its energy and water consumption. Claire Warren and Éilis Cronin discuss a piece from Antonia Garrett Peel which explains that, while awareness of the

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33:25

Kimberly-Clark’s UK&I MD: Consistently great...

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2025/03/06

Timing, as the saying goes, is everything – and for Kimberly-Clark UK&I MD Dan Howell this principle is central to the art of business transformation.In Howell’s view, the companies that exceed the standards of good performance to make it into the ranks of the great, and stay there, are those that “have this knack of knowing when to transform”.A so far two decade-long career working at CGP behemoths including AB InBev and Müller has also taught Howell a lot about the challenges that can stifle

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8:46

M&A traps and consultancy accountability

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2025/02/27

In this week’s episode, MT’s editorial team discusses some common traps in M&A deals and whether consultancies should be held accountable for the actions of their clients.This week a mega-deal was unveiled in the food delivery market when we heard that tech investor Prosus had agreed to acquire Just Eat Takeaway. While at €20.30 per share the offer represents a 22% premium to the company’s recent three-month stock price high, it still comes in at less than a fifth of the share’s peak in 2020,

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25:33

Returning to Planet Organic feels like a “business...

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2025/02/20

The entrepreneurial journey is famously a bumpy one and Planet Organic founder Renée Elliott’s story is testament to that.For her, seeing the vision for the business she founded interpreted (she prefers “eroded”) through other people’s priorities over the years has been “excruciating, infuriating…and exhausting”. But in 2023, Elliott returned to Planet, more than a decade after she and her husband stepped away from the company.This unlikely “business fairytale” had an inauspicious start: a phone

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9:36

The future of Tesla under Musk and predictions of an...

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2025/02/13

In this week’s episode of The Debrief, MT’s editorial team discusses whether Elon Musk is jeopardising the Tesla brand and what’s in store for the M&A market in 2025.It’s official: the richest man on the planet is now the United States’ – and possibly the world’s – most powerful unelected bureaucrat. Twenty twenty-four was a key year in the ongoing metamorphosis of Elon Musk, as he threw his support behind Donald Trump and embraced populist politicians around the globe, while courting

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26:00

Zurich Insurance’s chief customer officer on the...

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2025/02/06

Negative feedback is a gift; it provides the “gems that make sure you improve what you're doing and take it to the next level”, says Zurich Insurance’s Conny Kalcher.The chief customer officer of the more than 150-year-old company should know, having spent the last few years focusing on driving customer-centric business transformation at Zurich and, before that, at Lego, where she was instrumental in helping the brand to redefine its purpose, transforming it from a toy factory into a company that

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13:10

Missing targets, CIO expectations and the...

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2025/01/30

On this week’s episode, MT’s editorial team discusses which Big Four firms are on course to miss UK female partner goals, what CIOs want from consultants in 2025, and how a once-powerful name in consulting is making a comeback.We kick off this bumper consultancy episode with discussion of a story originally covered by the FT, which found that of the Big Four accounting firms, both EY and PwC are on track to miss their 2025 UK female partner targets. We also consider how gender imbalances might be

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20:29

CGI’s UK president on the evolution of technology...

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2025/01/23

Despite continuing to saturate the technology sector, AI investments remain a small percentage of overall IT spending, according to CGI's UK president Tara McGeehan, but gen AI adoption is helping businesses achieve faster and smoother transformations. On this week's episode, she speaks to MT how traditional AI, like machine learning, continues to grow alongside generative AI, how gen AI is accelerating transformations by enabling businesses to take greater control of the pace of change, and why

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8:41

AI's creative capabilities and consultants' take on...

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2025/01/16

In this week’s episode of The Debrief, MT’s editorial team discusses new research into large language models’ creative capabilities and what consultants believe CEOs should be focusing on this year.The new year is advancing at a frankly scary rate. But if like us you’re already drowning in a sea of immediate priorities, our first segment might provide the opportunity to step back and remind yourself of your aims for the coming 12 months. Before Christmas, we asked our community of consultants what

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29:15

Podcast: Cobra Beer’s journey from entrepreneur's...

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2025/01/09

Indian cuisine aficionados will be no stranger to Cobra Beer, but many may not be familiar with how the brand came to be - or the man behind it. Lord Karan Bilimoria created the brand in response to a lack of appropriate beer to have with spicy Indian food, but his journey to success was paved with challenges. We discuss how he almost lost the business three times and his decision to step down as chairman. He also gives us his views on the state of British business and what leaders can do to thrive

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14:02

Podcast: Organic growth stories and the value of...

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2024/12/19

In this week’s episode, MT’s editorial team discusses when a brand should make a break with its past identity and what two leading companies can teach us about organic business growth.Jaguar has been having a time of it recently – or has it? Certainly, the company has had to face a barrage of negative headlines, even as publicity for the carmaker has swelled to seldom-seen levels. But, as time goes on, opinion on its rebrand appears to be increasingly divided – not least among the leaders that

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33:20

Ikea’s ‘human-centric’ company culture

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2024/12/12

Ikea is known by customers for its iconic flat-pack furniture, maze-like stores, and delicious meatballs – but when Ingvar Kamprad founded the company in 1943 he also wanted to implement a strong company culture of inclusivity and openness.Today, that same culture is now in the capable hands of global people and culture manager, Ulrika Biesért, who is tasked with taking Kamprad's progressive ideals into the 21st Century.On this week's episode, we discuss how her career as a social worker and family

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15:33

MT’s Top Consultancies, CBI conference, and can AI...

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2024/12/05

On this week’s episode, we discuss what we learned from the CBI conference, MT’s new list of its Top 100 Management Consultancies, and why we’re not seeing gen AI transform business models.Last week, Antonia Garrett Peel attended the Confederation of British Industry’s annual conference to watch two political heavyweights – Chancellor Rachel Reeves and Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch – present their different visions for the economy. Of course the CBI was also keen to, as chair Rupert Soames put

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29:05

IBM UK’s CEO on the next era of computing

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2024/11/28

Just when you think you’ve got your head around AI, a new type of technology comes racing around the corner - quantum computingAccording to IBM’s UK and Ireland CEO, Nicola Hodson, quantum computing is “the next era of computing”. It allows the possibility of solving problems that either cannot be dealt with, or would take too long to deal with, through “conventional computing”.While it is still in the experimental phase, a 2020 McKinsey report estimates that there will be around 5,000 operational

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10:12

Podcast: Tariffs, supply chain fears and the...

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2024/11/21

On this week’s episode of The Debrief, MT’s editorial team discusses CEOs’ supply chain fears, what a new Trump presidency means for global trade, and how M&S bounced back.“There is arguably no change of administration in the world that has more of an impact on global trade than [that] in the US,” says Simon Geale, EVP at supply chain consultancy Proxima. So, with Donald Trump having clinched a decisive victory against Kamala Harris, what can business expect from the incoming president? He’s

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