No Bullsh!t Leadership

By Martin G Moore

Business Careers

What's No Bullsh!t Leadership about?

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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09.26.2023

Episode #256 // 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 ...

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09.26.2023 Leadership’s Most Underrated Ingredient Episode #256 // 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 ...
09.24.2023 Moment #35: Roadmap to the C-Suite 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 ...
09.19.2023 Controlling Without Micromanaging: Getting the balance right 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 ...
09.17.2023 Moment #34: The Power of Transparent Leadership 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 ...
09.12.2023 How I Keep Learning: My 5 Hot Tips 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. ...
09.10.2023 Moment #33: Overcoming the Need to be Liked 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 ...
09.05.2023 Don’t Let Your Career Stall: Q&A with Marty and Em 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 ...
09.03.2023 Moment #32: Emotional Resilience in Corporate Chaos Moment #32 // I went through some incredibly disruptive events during my corporate career - and it's fair to say that some of them pushed me to the edge of my personal capacity. Despite the personal toll, when I look ...
08.29.2023 Do You REALLY Understand Value? The bedrock of team success Episode #261 // The central element of the No Bullsh!t Leadership Framework is value. It should be the primary focus of every leader, at every level, in every organization. Value first… that’s it! Although we automatically think of financial value, ...
08.27.2023 Moment #31: The Anatomy of High Impact Decisions Moment #31 // How comfortable are you when making “high-impact” decisions? You know, the ones that really test you… the ones that scare you... the ones that you know can potentially have serious consequences if you get them wrong. You ...
08.22.2023 Setting the Bar: Raising the standard of leadership excellence SPECIAL EPISODE #260 // Are you fed up with average team performance and missed targets? Or maybe you feel like your passion for leadership has been on the decline? Get ready to breathe new life into your team with Day ...
08.20.2023 Moment #30: Why Do Leaders Believe Their Own Bullsh!t? Moment #30 // Why are such vast numbers of senior leaders so prone to believing their own bullsh!t? There are a bunch of underlying (but observable) factors, which we’re all subject to, that push us to believe our own bullsh!t. ...
08.15.2023 The Things I Wish I’d Known Earlier: Hindsight and maturity Episode #259 // I’ve been doing quite a few guest appearances on other people’s podcasts in recent weeks, and I’ve been asked on several occasions, “Marty, what do you know now, that you wish you’d learned earlier?”… There are any ...
08.13.2023 Moment #29: Balancing Banter With Boundaries Moment #29 // Having close friends is one of life’s ultimate joys. But, as a leader, that’s the last thing you want. Being friends with someone who works for you dilutes your objectivity. And no matter how much you think ...
08.08.2023 Future Trends in Business: Where are we heading? Episode #258 // One of the principal occupations of many consultants, speakers, and business experts is to try to predict the future. And, although this is virtually impossible, it doesn’t stop them from trying! If you’re a regular listener, you’ll ...
08.06.2023 Moment #28: When Should You Outsource? Moment #28 // How do you go about making an outsourcing decision for your company? It’s important to be clear on exactly why you want to outsource, and to understand the relative cost of doing something yourself, as opposed to ...
08.01.2023 Your Leadership User Manual: Clarifying expectations for success Episode #257 // I came across an article by Shanna Hocking, which introduced me to the concept of the Leadership User Manual. Hocking credits its origins to Adam Bryant, who wrote an article almost 10 years ago titled, What if ...
07.30.2023 Moment #27: Defining Weak Leadership Moment #27 // Weak leaders are characterized by what they’re not prepared to do. Weak leaders are unwilling to push back on the boss; they don't put the team's interests ahead of their own; they’re unwilling to set ambitious goals; ...
07.25.2023 Barriers to Building Emotional Intelligence with Dr Rebecca Heiss Episode #256 // The concept of EQ isn’t new. It was the subject of academic research way back in the 1960s, but it took another 30 years before we gained widespread awareness of it through Daniel Goleman’s classic book, Emotional ...
07.23.2023 Moment #26: From Individual Contributor to Leader Moment #26 // Of the many mistakes that new leaders are prone to make, over-functioning for certain individuals is one of the most common, and the most insidious. When you do this, it tells your people that what they're doing ...
07.18.2023 Building a Better Mousetrap: The productivity reality Episode #255 // Ralph Waldo Emerson once said: “Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door!”. This quote, espousing the value of innovation, has been liberally used and abused over the years. I came ...
07.16.2023 Moment #25: Why Management Teams Become Stale Moment #25 // High-performance is fragile. Teams can lose their lustre for a whole range of reasons, and leading a team of high performers can be incredibly challenging. The best teams push each other pretty hard, and it can be ...
07.11.2023 What the Best Leaders Do Differently with Scott J. Miller Episode #254 // We’re approached all the time to interview other thought leaders on this podcast. However, since No Bullsh!t Leadership is predominantly a solo cast, we reluctantly decline 99% of these requests. But one email popped into our Inbox ...
07.09.2023 Moment #24: The Risks Of Office Romances Moment #24 // As a leader, how do you set appropriate boundaries in your work relationships? How do you strike the balance between establishing trust-based, caring relationships with your people, and maintaining professional distance? The social pendulum has really swung ...
07.04.2023 Lifters and Leaners: The contribution mentality Episode #253 // In life, there tend to be two kinds of people: there are lifters and there are leaners. Lifters carry the burden for themselves and others… they take on more accountability than the average person, and they don’t ...
07.02.2023 Moment #23: Mastering Your Mindset Moment #23 // You don't want your business to suffer the impact of poor decisions that are driven by fear. If you can sense, and then short-circuit your physiological reactions as they arise, you’ll be in a better position to ...
06.27.2023 Hard Lessons of the Ego: The pride before the fall Episode #252 // Chris Licht, the former CEO of CNN, resigned recently after a scathing exposé in The Atlantic. What was supposed to be an opportunity to provide a firsthand account of a miraculous company turnaround, ended up in embarrassment, ...
06.25.2023 Moment #22: Unmasking Reluctant Leaders Moment #22 // Some people really don't want to lead. But they don’t necessarily know that they don’t want to. So, why would they take on a leadership role if they have no desire to lead? And how do you ...
06.20.2023 Indispensable Workplace Competencies: Getting to the top Episode #251 // There are a range of competencies required to forge a successful career. On this podcast, of course, we focus predominantly on how to develop and improve your leadership capability to uplift your team’s performance. Leadership competency gives ...
06.18.2023 Moment #21: How To Be More Promotable Moment #21 // There are a few key things you need to do in order to maximize your promotability. How do you stamp yourself as a trusted advisor, rather than just a workhorse? Why should you strive to make yourself ...
06.13.2023 Leveraging Parenthood into Performance: Marty Interviews Em Episode #250 // One of the most intractable issues affecting gender equity in the workplace is maternity leave. Companies and countries are trying to find ways to make it easier for women to have families, without significant disruption to their ...
06.11.2023 Moment #20: Why Performance Trumps Tenure Moment #20 // In a hot job market, you can't retain every one of your people, which is why it’s important to think about who your star performers are, and to make sure they don’t go anywhere. This necessitates a ...
06.06.2023 Self-Driven Success: Navigating Your Own Professional Growth Episode #249 // Did you know that while 83% of organizations acknowledge the importance of developing leaders, only 5% actually follow through? It's no wonder many leaders feel lost and unfulfilled. If you've been yearning for a more fulfilling leadership ...
06.04.2023 Moment #19: Burn the Boats: Committing to Culture Change Moment #19 // To make any serious change requires a change of culture—the way we do things around here—and changing culture is not for the faint of heart. It takes discipline, perseverance, time, energy, some pain, a bunch of momentum, ...
05.30.2023 The CEO and the Board: Are outcomes improving? Episode #248 // We still seem to be witnessing some pretty spectacular failures in corporate governance. Every week, the financial press manages to uncover some sort of personal scandal, a sudden and unexpected decline in performance, or a breach of ...
05.28.2023 Moment #18: When To Part Ways With a Poor Performer Moment #18 // How do you know when the right time is to let a poor performer go? Many leaders sit back and just hope that the person will improve. But hope isn’t a strategy. And when you’re dealing with ...
05.23.2023 Achieving Operational Excellence: Leading sustainable improvement Episode #247 // Virtually every organization has some form of operational delivery capability for its products and services. More often than not, your ability to compete in the market can be strengthened through operational excellence. But operational excellence is elusive, ...
05.21.2023 Moment #17: The 5 Hidden Enemies Of High Performance Moment #17 // Low accountability cultures are riddled with barriers to performance. The leaders resign themselves to the fact that gaps and overlaps are inevitable, and they rationalize that strong single point accountabilities aren’t really necessary. What are the 5 ...
05.16.2023 The Curse Of Short-Term Focus: Finding a balance Episode #246 // One of the most widespread and seemingly intractable problems facing leaders and organizations everywhere, is the drive to focus only on short-term results. And this condition doesn’t discriminate between industries, countries, or cultures. Almost everything that happens ...
05.14.2023 Moment #16: Don’t Believe Your Own Bullsh!t Moment #16 // Some companies have turned the concept of believing your own bullshit into an art form! It’s really easy to convince ourselves that we are achieving amazing things when, in actual fact, very little is changing. Do you ...
05.09.2023 Drive For Performance or Bullying? It's a fine line... Episode #245 // I’m a vocal advocate of strong leadership: the need to stretch people to achieve extraordinary performance, with a single-minded focus on value creation (bearing in mind, of course, that value comes in many different forms: it’s not ...
05.07.2023 Moment #15: Unlocking True Capability Moment #15 // The primary function of a leader is to create and maintain a culture that’s conducive to performance excellence… a culture where every individual is committed to giving their best every day. More often than not, cultures just ...
05.02.2023 Cracking the Performance Management Code Episode #244 // One of the toughest elements of leadership is managing your people’s performance. Everyone has to meet a minimum acceptable standard, of course… but beyond that, you also want to be able to lead your best people to ...
04.30.2023 Moment #14: How To Spot a Political Animal Moment #14 // On one level, politics can be seen simply as a process of influencing. But more often, it’s a devious, divisive tool used by unscrupulous individuals to further their own standing—it creates a toxic and cancerous culture. How ...
04.25.2023 Credibility: The Hallmark Of Great Leaders Episode #243 // Whatever you try to achieve as a leader relies, at least to some extent, on your credibility. If you have strong personal credibility, it makes everything you do inordinately easier. Credibility galvanizes your team… it instills confidence ...
04.23.2023 Moment #13: Struggling With Simple Decisions? Moment #13 // Do you have decision fatigue? During the course of every day, our brains are forced to make thousands of decisions, big and small. The cumulative effect of all these decisions is mental fatigue, which can result in ...
04.18.2023 Leading Older Workers: Capturing the value opportunity Episode #242 // The question we used to ask only occasionally has now become more frequent… “how old is too old?” While most countries still regard the retirement age for the average citizen to be somewhere in their early to ...
04.16.2023 Moment #12: Blaming Others Doesn’t Help Moment #12 // Blaming others when something doesn’t go to plan is one of the most insidious leadership behaviors. It’s a cancer in your culture that has to be eradicated. When a leader tolerates the blame game, excuses become the ...
04.11.2023 Need More People? Here's how to convince your boss Ep #241 // It’s always been a tough ask to get your boss to provide additional resources, whether it’s money, people, or assets. And it’s certainly not getting any easier in the current environment. Businesses in virtually every sector of ...
04.09.2023 Moment #11: What Standard Are YOU Setting? Moment #11 // One of the most important roles that a leader plays is to set the right standards for performance and behavior. Sometimes, we think we're setting an appropriately high performance standard, but the exceptions we make indicate otherwise. ...

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