Exploring how leaders get lazy and looking at the opposite to identify the qualities of effective leaders and how they create conditions for success.

Ben talks with Luke Fisher, founder and CEO of London based software company Mo, about engagement, culture, investment and taking a growth company to break out and beyond.

Which is more important - a Dream or a Dream Team?

In this guest episode Gritty Leaders Club explores marketing with Grant Leboff.

How do leaders, teams and whole organisations keep unwavering faith that they will prevail while at the same time confronting the brutal truths of their situation?

Ben and Ian explore how leaders generate forward motion, energy and progress in the business. Touching on how SMART goals do not work and exploring engagement and important questions, "What's possible?" and "How are we going to do that?"

Exploring venture capitalist Ben Horowitz's concept of Peacetime CEO and Wartime CEO this episode gets into questions of leadership approach, diversity in the senior team and whether or not start-up, scale-up and growth companies are, in a sense, always at war. Ben and Ian also explore how Formula 1 has reinvented itself during pandemic and how IKEA, a world class operational excellence business, shows additional strengths.

Ben and Ian explore getting uncomfortable as a leader

Ian and Ben get into the substance of what it is to be a gritty leader.

Ben and Ian introduce themselves and ask, "What is the Gritty Leadership Club?"