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Core values are not the words printed on the wall in reception. They are the behaviours that people believe will actually be rewarded in the organisation.

This week on Inside Exec I revisit one of the most requested topics from the past decade: communicating core values.

Ten years ago we discussed how organisations identify values and communicate them to employees. The fundamentals haven’t changed much. What has changed is the environment around them. This week’s Inside Exec episode revisits this topic and explores why communicating and demonstrating core values remains one of leadership’s most important challenges.

In this episode of Inside Exec, Kim revisits a topic first explored in 2016: how to manage a team of highly qualified, ambitious professionals who are eager for high-profile work but resistant to routine or “mundane” tasks.

Nearly a decade later, the fundamentals of leadership remain the same but the environment has changed dramatically.

In 2016 Fulyana and Kim talked through 2 podcasts about knowledge management and knowledge transfer in organisations – its importance, how it could be managed, how it could be systematically stored.

Now in 2026 knowledge management is a very different topic requiring a fundamental change to how we use, access and store both internal information and the wealth of external information now so readily available through AI and LLMs.

Here are 10 areas to think about now……

In one of our early 2015 podcasts Fulyana and Kim explored what empowerment meant for both executives and teams. Now, more than 10 years later, Kim asks whether this has changed. With the changes and advances in technology, the altered work environment and the surge of “fast thinking”, do we still need to consider empowerment? What does it mean for today’s business?

Continuing our series of revisiting topics from our early podcasts, this week Jamie and Kim explore the differences between working smarter or harder as we introduce AI to the workplace along with changes to work patterns and other technologies.

Are we still being interrupted, distracted or disrupted? Are we working harder or does it just “feel” like it?

To listen to the original podcast from 2015, click here.

Continuing the series of podcasts looking back at the topics we first discussed, Kim reviews a session from 2015 talking about questions to ask business leaders.

Given the changes to workplaces and the business challenges during the past decade, have the questions changed?

To listen to the original podcast or read the transcription click here.

This week Kim is revisiting on of the earliest topics discussed on the podcast – What Should Keep You Up At Night? The original podcast was aired in 2015, the link is below this week’s audio.

What are the questions you should be considering when sleep eludes you? Apart from technology, how much has really changed in the last 10 years for leaders?

For the original podcast click here

This week Kim and Jamie explore the increased use of AI in recruitment processes as well as the opportunity to use it for corporate communication standards. This led to a more in-depth discussion on the dangers of using internal information as part of “teaching” a more publicly accessible AI.

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This week we continue our conversation with Kate O’Neill looking at the interdependence of strategic optimism and strategic disappointment as well as the importance of bringing our human “soft” skills to interactions and use of AI in the workplace.

Following our video introduction of Kate, we begin a three part conversation looking at organisations from a “tech humanist” viewpoint.

In this part of the conversation we explore the difference between workplace transformation and workplace innovation and what it means for you and your industry competitors.