More Than A Meeting

By Les Murray

Most growing businesses don’t have a people problem. They have a leadership system problem. Welcome to More Than A Meeting, the podcast for CEOs, MDs, founders and senior leaders who know the real wor... more

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The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.

More Than A Meeting episodes:

September 14, 2026 The Promise Culture
How many times should a CEO have to ask for the same thing?
In this episode, Les explores the idea of a promise culture, where accountability comes from clear expectations, explicit commitments and trust rather than chasing and micromanagement.
You'll hear why ownership must be visible, why accountability should run between peers rather than only upwards, and why leaders have to model the standards they expect from everybody else.
A promise culture makes commitments mean something.
Keywords: accountability culture, promise culture, SLT accountability, leadership behaviour, management systems, high-performing teams
#Accountability #Leadership #SeniorLeadershipTeam #BusinessCulture #HighPerformance
Connect with Les:
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Website: 20-20
YouTube: Services Showreel
YouTube Channel
Book: Amazon
SLT Quiz: Scoreapp
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September 07, 2026 What Should Your SLT Actually Be Measuring?
Your SLT measures the business. But who measures the SLT?
Revenue, EBITDA and cash tell you what has happened. They don't tell you whether your leadership team is becoming more capable of producing those results repeatedly.
Les explores five practical dimensions of SLT performance: decision velocity, strategic alignment, execution reliability, cohesion and dependency risk. He also explains why making leadership performance visible creates better conversations and more targeted improvement.
If your leadership team had its own dashboard, what would it reveal?
Keywords: senior leadership team performance, SLT metrics, leadership measurement, decision velocity, execution, CEO leadership
#SeniorLeadershipTeam #Leadership #CEO #BusinessGrowth #SLTPerformance
Connect with Les:
LinkedIn
Website: 20-20
YouTube: Services Showreel
YouTube Channel
Book: Amazon
SLT Quiz: Scoreapp
Newsletter: Sign Up
Calendly
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5min
August 31, 2026 The Senior Team Is Not a Meeting, It’s a System
Your SLT is not a calendar invite. It is the leadership system of the business.
In the final episode, Les pulls the series together by showing how senior teams create speed or drag, clarity or confusion, dependency or distributed leadership. A strong SLT system has purpose, decision architecture, rhythm, accountability, behaviours and measurement. When these work together, the business moves with less friction.
For CEOs ready to stop asking whether the meeting works and start asking whether the system works.
#LeadershipSystem #SeniorLeadershipTeam #SLTPerformance #BusinessScaling #CEOLeadership
Connect with Les:
LinkedIn
Website: 20-20
YouTube: Services Showreel
YouTube Channel
Book: Amazon
SLT Quiz: Scoreapp
Newsletter: Sign Up
Calendly
...more
7min
August 24, 2026 Decision Velocity, The Metric Most SLTs Ignore
The speed of your decisions often becomes the speed of your business.
Les explores decision velocity as a critical measure of leadership health. It is not about rushing. It is about reducing drag by clarifying who decides, what type of decision is being made, whether the decision sticks and how quickly action begins. Slow decisions cost money, confidence and momentum.
A sharp episode for leadership teams who want better pace, cleaner ownership and stronger execution.
#DecisionVelocity #LeadershipMetrics #SLTPerformance #BusinessExecution #CEOLeadership
Connect with Les:
LinkedIn
Website: 20-20
YouTube: Services Showreel
YouTube Channel
Book: Amazon
SLT Quiz: Scoreapp
Newsletter: Sign Up
Calendly
...more
7min
August 17, 2026 Why Strong Functions Don’t Create Enterprise Performance
You can have brilliant functional leaders and still have a slow, political business.
This episode challenges the assumption that strong departments automatically create strong enterprise performance. Les explains how functional gravity pulls leaders back into local optimisation and why the SLT must become their first team. Enterprise leadership means caring about the whole business, not only the function you lead.
For CEOs who want their senior team to stop representing departments and start leading the enterprise.
#EnterprisePerformance #FunctionalSilos #SeniorLeadershipTeam #SLTAlignment #LeadershipSystems
Connect with Les:
LinkedIn
Website: 20-20
YouTube: Services Showreel
YouTube Channel
Book: Amazon
SLT Quiz: Scoreapp
Newsletter: Sign Up
Calendly
...more
7min
August 10, 2026 The Habits of High-Achieving SLTs
High achievements at the top are built through habits, not speeches.
Les breaks down the operating habits that separate average senior leadership teams from high-achieving ones. These include decision forums instead of reporting rituals, named ownership, useful challenge, enterprise thinking, strong cadence and honest reflection. Small repeated behaviours become the leadership system.
A practical episode for SLTs who want to move from knowing what good looks like to practising it consistently.
#HighPerformingTeams #SLTHabits #LeadershipPerformance #SeniorLeadershipTeam #BusinessScaling
Connect with Les:
LinkedIn
Website: 20-20
YouTube: Services Showreel
YouTube Channel
Book: Amazon
SLT Quiz: Scoreapp
Newsletter: Sign Up
Calendly
...more
7min
August 03, 2026 From Sounding Board to Strategic Engine
A supportive SLT is helpful, but at scale it is not enough.
Les explains why growing businesses need senior leadership teams that do more than listen, react and advise. A strategic engine spots issues early, brings judgement, owns decisions and helps the MD or CEO think beyond what they could reach alone. The episode covers enterprise mindset, purposeful meetings, strategic clarity and peer accountability.
For MDs and CEOs ready to build an SLT that truly drives growth.
#StrategicLeadership #ScaleUpCEO #SLTPerformance #EnterpriseLeadership #BusinessGrowth
Connect with Les:
LinkedIn
Website: 20-20
YouTube: Services Showreel
YouTube Channel
Book: Amazon
SLT Quiz: Scoreapp
Newsletter: Sign Up
Calendly
...more
7min
July 27, 2026 Why Strategy Fails Before Execution Begins
Strategy often fails long before execution starts.
In this episode, Les argues that a strategy deck is not clarity, a town hall is not ownership and agreement is not readiness. Real strategy begins when the SLT can answer where the business is going, why it matters, what must change and what will stop. Without trade-offs at the top, the organisation carries the contradictions later.
For leadership teams who want strategy to become action, not just communication.
#StrategicExecution #SLTAlignment #BusinessStrategy #LeadershipSystems #CEOLeadership
Connect with Les:
LinkedIn
Website: 20-20
YouTube: Services Showreel
YouTube Channel
Book: Amazon
SLT Quiz: Scoreapp
Newsletter: Sign Up
Calendly
...more
7min
July 20, 2026 The Accountability Gap at the Top
Your SLT may hold everyone else to account, but who holds the SLT to account?
Les explores why accountability often weakens at the most senior level. Polite avoidance, blurred ownership and CEO dependency can stop a leadership team from becoming truly accountable to each other. The episode offers practical steps including clear commitments, visible promises, peer challenge and team measurement.
A must-listen for CEOs who want accountability to become cultural, not just managerial.
#Accountability #SLTPerformance #PromiseCulture #CEOLeadership #LeadershipTeam
Connect with Les:
LinkedIn
Website: 20-20
YouTube: Services Showreel
YouTube Channel
Book: Amazon
SLT Quiz: Scoreapp
Newsletter: Sign Up
Calendly
...more
6min
July 13, 2026 How to Build a Senior Leadership Team That Scales
A senior leadership team does not scale by accident. It has to be designed.
In this episode, Les sets out the building blocks of a scalable SLT: purpose, roles, decision rights, rhythm, behaviour and measurement. A strong SLT is not just a group of capable people with senior titles, it is the operating system of the business.
For CEOs and MDs who want less dependency, better decisions and a leadership team that makes growth feel lighter.
#SeniorLeadershipTeam #ScaleUpBusiness #LeadershipDesign #SLTPerformance #BusinessSystems
Connect with Les:
LinkedIn
Website: 20-20
YouTube: Services Showreel
YouTube Channel
Book: Amazon
SLT Quiz: Scoreapp
Newsletter: Sign Up
Calendly
...more
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FAQs about More Than A Meeting:

How many episodes does More Than A Meeting have?

The podcast currently has 15 episodes available.