Episode 1-17 of the Dumb Leaders Podcast

We call our leader the Ostrich, and that’s because he prefers to keep his head in the sand. He prefers not to know about anything that may bee seen as bad news – he prefers to not know and only deals with bad news when it is inevitable.

When confronted by someone who wants to give him bad news, he tends to get angry and the words JUST fix it or else will come out in some stage of the conversation, or he just refuses to listen and says that is unacceptable – get it done.

Sharing a strategy on how to deal with Dumb Leaders like the Ostrich, and this DL who also shoots the messenger.

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October 13, 2017 by Curkyt from Australia

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Intro Sampled – Dumb Things – Paul Kelly

Outro Sampled – Date with a Vampire- Screaming Tribesman

#116 The Dumb Leaders Podcast - The Comfort King - The Keeper of the Boys Club

It’s real. The boys club, or it’s female equivalent, the girl’s army or dyad. At best polarising, at worst completely divisive. They exist in our corporate worlds and in our business networks. They are as real as we want them to be. And they are the domain of the Dumb Leader.

The talk on a Monday morning centred around the weekend’s games, as the boys boosted their testosterone levels in relaying the moments of elation and disparity arising from the games.

And everyone that was not part of the club, felt isolated and alone. They did not feel part of the team.

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#115 The Dumb Leaders Podcast - The Volatile Volcano

sWelcome to the Dumb Leaders Podcast

And what a doozy we have for you. We have labelled this guy, this DL the Volatile Volcano…. Known and feared for intermittent eruptions.

Every day we head into the office, wishing for an eruption free day, but often it’s ground hog day again. Our boss, the owner of the business has no self-control over his own emotions…. Everyone walks on eggshells when he is in the office, everyone is on edge, it is making some of the office girls sick, we all dread coming to work but very few of us take days off as we know it just makes worse for the rest.

 

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The Dumb Leaders Podcast - Episode 114

What they see in the recruitment stage is replicated if they do take up the offer. If you are too busy for them during recruitment, you’ll always be too busy to coach and develop them.

To me there is a stereotype here of a Dumb Leader – The one that believes they are more important than others. The one that always has more important things to do than be with others, attend to others and serves others. For some it’s a power thing, for others its woefully inadequate time management and prioritisation skills and a third set is the businesses that failed in developing ahead of growth and the people are under constant stress in getting their job done.

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Episode 113 of the Dumb Leaders Podcast

Leaders are on show, leaders are on show every day.

For managers and leaders everywhere that is a simple fact of life. We are on show to our team, to our customers and our clients and we are also on show every day on social media, and in news media outlets. Regardless whether its fake news or not, things get said, done and reported and your business suffers, your leadership reputation suffers.

We walk through a library of very public errors made by a bunch of dumb leaders, from employee reviews to findings against companies and leaders. Dumb Leaders who fail to learn from their mistakes.

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Episode 112 of the Dumb Leaders highlights some observations around the retail landscape, as news comes through of even more retailers in trouble with word that at least six national retailers will close up shop prior to the end of the first quarter in 2018.

Dumb Leaders in retail, with seemingly little idea on how to compete, are being gapped more and more by retailers who understand what they are doing and how they are doing it. The gap gets wider between the winners and the losers.

The thinking that places them where they are now, wont be the thinking that fixes it for them.

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Episode 111 of the Dumb Leaders Podcast. What Resolutions do Dumb Leaders make every year? That's right NONE!

Most people do not set goals simple. So the Dumb Leader will fall into that category without a doubt

What are the four key things you should be doing today, this week, this month, this year and every year!

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In episode 110 of the Dumb Leaders Podcast we dissect the dumb mistakes made by leaders at Christmas time and at Christmas parties. What can you learn from these?

Hope you take away some value from today’s podcast. Have you ever been a dumb leader at Christmas? Have you ever had to apolgise after a Christmas Party. If you have woken up with just a hangover, maybe you got lucky.

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Episode 109 of the Dumb Leaders Podcast!

It's a year since one of Australia largest corporate disasters. Woolworth's ill-fated attempt to take on market leader Bunnings on the 24billion dollar Hardware and Home Improvement market.

Lets look at the timeline and lets look at some of the key reason for the failure. It was a hell of a ride, based on a wrong premise with stumps called, just as they formed the right team to take it forward.

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Episode 108 of the Dumb Leaders Podcast sees us disect The Dumb Punter - the leader that plays favourites.

We have been blown away by how many readers and listeners have shared their stories of the Dumb Punter, so lets look at how they operate and the results they get. HINT - it's ordinary

Tony also shares some insights into the QLD election with a view forward. Influence is what is needed, not government along party lines.

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