When CEOs cut management layers, they often kid themselves that they're building leaner, faster companies. 

But what they're actually doing is destroying accountability and weakening performance. Hiding behind fads like player-coach leadership can’t change that fact.

The tech sector loves a management fad and over the years, they’ve tried them all. But the unquestioning adoption (and eventual discarding) of these management trends doesn’t seem to discourage them from trying the next one that comes along.

In this episode, I pull this apart from a few different angles. I look at the fundamental misconceptions that drive fads like player-coach leadership; I bring you a view from an industry insider; and I give you a practical list of the 5 questions you should ask before you get sucked into the next manager-free fad.

Source Material:

No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes:

Ep.396: How Many Direct Reports is Too Many?

Business Insider article:

The Most Layoff-Prone Jobs

Fortune article:

Coinbase Replaced Managers With Player-Coaches

LinkedIn profile:

Alek Lipski

LBT link:

Leadership Beyond the Theory

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Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

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In business, it’s an indisputable fact that stronger competition results in better outcomes for everyone. Why are we so reluctant, then, to increase competitive pressure within our teams?

One of the most critical performance levers of leadership is differentiation between people; and creating a merit-based, competitive environment within your team benefits every stakeholder… especially your people. 

If you want to go deeper on how to increase healthy competition in your team, have a listen to Ep.179: Survival of the Fittest

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. 

You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

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Charisma is sold to us as a divine gift that you’re either born with… or not. 

We bandy the word around quite a bit… and even though charisma comes with some negative connotations, most of us wish we had more of it.

Describing the things that make up charisma can be difficult: It’s quite an intangible concept, which is why it’s so easy to fall back on observable, physical attributes, like height, confidence, wardrobe choices, and tone of voice.

This tells you less about charisma, and more about our deeply ingrained assumptions about what a leader is supposed to look like.

In this episode, I dispel the charisma myth, and give you the practical guidance you need to build your charisma; no matter where you feel you are right now, or what your beliefs about charisma were before you pressed play on this episode.

Source Material:

No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes:

Ep 31: Don’t Shoot the Messenger

Ep.145: Humour is Underrated

Wikipedia link:

Charles Duhigg

Elizabeth Holmes

Theranos

Amazon links:

Blink

Duke University study:

Voice Pitch and Labor Market Success of Male CEOs

LBT link:

Leadership Beyond the Theory

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. 

You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

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When there’s a failure to comply with the rules, everyone’s first instinct is to look at their compliance regime. They create more rules… more controls… more safeguards…

A highly motivated person driven by self-interest will find a way around even the tightest procedure. History has proven that, repeatedly.

The key to achieving better performance is strong leadership, clear accountability, and a disciplined approach to work; in short, a great culture.

If you want to go deeper on how to balance compliance and performance, have a listen to Ep.33: Regulation Can't Fix Culture

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. 

You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

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Your people aren't struggling because the work is hard. They're struggling because they can't predict you. Inconsistent leadership doesn't just frustrate teams; it debilitates them.

We all think we’re pretty consistent. And any time we aren’t, we’re expert at rationalising any inconsistencies.

The fundamental problem is that we judge ourselves by our intentions, whereas our people judge us by our actions.

This is why consistency is critical. 

When a leader is unpredictable, the impact on the team is massive. They don't just become frustrated. Their work output slows to glacial speed, as they spend all their time and energy focused on how to manage your expectations, rather than doing their jobs.

In this episode I break down the six drivers of consistent leadership, and show you how to build a team that performs with confidence, not one that’s forced to constantly second-guess itself.

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. 

You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

Join the October cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/

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What if you stopped rewarding people for being busy, and instead focused only on the value they produced?

Your team would be night-and-day different.

Busy is the enemy of productive. As long as you give your team a free pass for being busy, performance will elude you.

If you want to go deeper on how to eliminate busywork, have a listen to Ep.366: Replacing Busywork With Real Results

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. 

You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

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What does it actually take to build a top-ranked leadership podcast from scratch, and keep it going for 400 weeks in a row?

8 years ago, Em convinced me to walk away from my role as CEO of a multi-billion dollar business to build a micro-startup with a simple premise: give away your very best insights for free on the podcast, and trust that the impact will follow. Our purpose became: to improve the quality of leaders, globally.

What followed was 400 episodes (570 if you include the short Monday episodes), 8 million downloads, a global audience, and more lessons than either of us expected, about burnout, about money, about the milestones that don't deliver what you think they will, and about what it actually takes to build something that lasts.

In this episode, Em and I go behind the scenes of Your CEO Mentor and this podcast for the first time, sharing what we got wrong, what we'd do differently, and the moments that meant more than any revenue milestone ever did!

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. 

You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

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Companies that are really good in a crisis are often poorly managed: their people get addicted to the adrenaline rush that comes with constantly being in firefighting mode.

The best way to manage a crisis, by far, is to avoid it altogether… which takes a lot of boring, proactive work. 

But well-run businesses are proactive.

If you want to go deeper on how to lead when the crisis does hit, have a listen to Ep.82: Leading Through Crisis

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. 

You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

Join the October cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/

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What if the single biggest lever for creating value in your business wasn't actually in your business at all? What if it was an alliance forged with another company?

The inspiration for this topic came from an episode of the Acquired podcast, which took a deep dive into the Formula One motor racing business.

F1 isn’t just a sport: it's a compelling case study in how to create value through alliances. This is a transformation story about turning a highly-fragmented, amateurish pastime for European elites into a $60bn global juggernaut.

In this episode, I'll show you exactly how that happened; I’ll take you behind the scenes of one of the most valuable alliances I was part of during my own corporate career; and I’ll distil these examples to draw out 5 rules for multiplying value through alliances.

Want the FREE Alliance Playbook? Click here to access it!

Source Material:

No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes:

Ep.179: Survival of the Fittest

Ep.275: When Should You Let Someone Go?

Ep.344: Building a Winning Culture

Ep.75: Negotiation Fundamentals

Acquired podcast:

Acquired

Wikipedia link:

Bernie Ecclestone

Amazon link:

Negotiation Genius

LBT link:

Leadership Beyond the Theory

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. 

You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

Join the October cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/

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I’ve advised many CEO / Founders over the last 5 years. My first job is often to convince them that the family culture they treasure so fondly is the biggest impediment to performance improvement.

In this Moment, I explore the four biggest drawbacks to family culture. But they are by no means the exclusive domain of family businesses: they’ll sound familiar to those of you who work in large listed companies and government agencies alike. 

If you want to know how to drive high performance in a family business, have a listen to Ep.76: The Family Affair.

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Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. 

You're still doing the work your team should own. And you can't see a way to stop.

Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks of practical reps that get you out of the weeds and hand delivery back to your team.

Taught by Martin Moore, who ran a multi-billion dollar company before he taught any of this. 3,000+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend.

Join the October cohort: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/

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