Moment #63 // Times are tough and, when the pressure is on, it doesn’t take long before companies start to squeeze their suppliers in an attempt to find cost savings.
Unfortunately, your suppliers are facing exactly the same pressures you are. Their costs are rising too, and they’re experiencing the same difficulty in finding and keeping their best people.
Knowing how to manage your suppliers for optimum long-term benefit is critical, especially as you seek to outsource more and more of the company’s non-core work. If you squeeze your suppliers too tight, they’ll end up cutting corners. Remember, you can outsource the activity, but you can’t outsource the risk!
You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.221: Managing Supplier Relationships.
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Moment #63: Playing the Long Game With Suppliers

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Episode #297 // “If you ever find yourself thinking, "How could the company possibly do without me?" Well, trust me, they'll work it out!” 
For as long as I can remember, the business media has been awash with stories about the job market… how to get a job, how to keep a job, how to juggle your job with other demands, and how to climb the corporate ladder. 
Since the Covid pandemic, it seems as though the volume of this advice has grown exponentially.   The most recent article to catch my eye, from the Wall Street Journal, discusses the concept of indispensability… it exposes the startling revelation that being indispensable might not necessarily provide you with the bulletproof job security that you thought it would.
For leaders, the indispensability landscape is very different. How should you approach this conundrum? What does it mean for you and your team?    In this episode, I take a look at the WSJ article, bringing some practical balance and perspective, and then I give you my 3 hot tips for making yourself invaluable, without trying to be indispensable. 
Source Material Wall Street Journal article: The Big Work Lie: Being Indispensable WIll Save Your Job
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Making Yourself Indispensable: Will it protect your job?

Moment #67 // You’ll often hear people explain away someone else’s success by saying, “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know!”
It’s easy to discount another person’s achievement by putting it down to their position of privilege… to believe that the only reason they made it was because they received a leg-up, or a head start… to succumb to the dangerous thinking that says, “they have something that I don’t”. 
Don’t lull yourself into surrender. Don’t wait until you’re in a rocking chair, saying “I could have been a contender”… it’s never too late to work on building your success ecosystem! 
If you want to take a deep dive into my 10 key principles of career success, have a listen to Ep.138: It's Not What You Know.
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Moment #67: Life Principles That Guarantee Success

Episode #296 // "Middle management is the engine room of performance. This is where you are closest to the work, and you can make some real inroads into performance improvement."
I produced a podcast episode over 4 years ago, titled “The Curse of the Middle Manager”. So, when I recently came across an HBR article that signaled a resurgence in middle management roles, I figured it was time to take another look!
In many businesses, the role of the middle manager is by far the toughest. If you’re in that position now, you’ll know exactly what I mean.
You’re effectively the meat in the sandwich — the punching bag for both your team (who often don’t want to change the way they do things), and the senior leaders above you (who sometimes just want you to do as you’re told, without discussion).
Middle managers are often the most unloved (and unrewarded) people in an organization. But here’s the essential lens you need to look through: middle management is the petri dish in which senior leaders are identified, developed, and hatched.
I’m dedicating today’s episode to the middle manager, so that you can not just learn how to survive the cauldron, but to grow, thrive, and move onto bigger and better things!
No Bullsh!t Leadership podcast: Ep.74: The Curse of the Middle Manager Ep.267: Management vs Leadership Ep.53: Don’t Overdo Collaboration
HBR Working Knowledge article: The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding
Clay Christensen books: The Innovator’s Dilemma The Innovator’s Solution 
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The Comeback of the Middle Manager: A welcome trend!

Moment #66 // Leaders who have been passed over for promotion are often told, “You need to be more strategic”... whatever that means!
There could be a number of possible explanations for this… but you can’t always rely on your boss to explain exactly what she means! 
In this Moment, I give you a few suggestions for how you might be able to interpret this feedback, and use it to work on the things that will better prepare you for the next level.
You can take a deeper dive into these insights by listening to Ep.134: Being More Strategic. 
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Moment #66: Preparing For the Next Level

Episode #295 // “We make mistakes, at each new level that we move to – it's an essential part of our growth and development. But the higher up you go, the bigger the impact that those mistakes have.” 
One of my recent social media posts went viral (this one - 2.7mill views as of writing this), as I outlined the three biggest mistakes I made when I was finding my feet in my first few senior leadership roles.
The good news is that, once I was aware of them, I was able to put some strategies in place to fill the holes. This had the surprising outcome of turning some of my biggest mistakes into genuine strengths.
They became part of the rock solid foundations of my leadership repertoire and, for at least one of these weaknesses, it became an unqualified strength, which gave me a competitive edge over my peers.
In this episode, I take a closer look at the three biggest mistakes I was still making when I stepped into senior leadership roles, and how I managed to turn these around. 
I’d love you to be able to do the same, without having to get quite as many scars as I did!
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Moment #63: Playing the Long Game With Suppliers

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