Bitesize Boss
By John Newton
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This podcast aims to support your leadership journey, your development and improvement from the start and through the many stages to a place of success and reward. It discusses tactics, strategies, ethics, personal wellbeing as a leader and your growth into the boss you want to be and can be proud of.
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The journey from idea to delivery: We start with Mary Anning and her fossil discoveries
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Be a reader. Be a thinker. Be a creator.
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Warren Buffett, the Impressionists, the Suffragettes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and pizza
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Steal ideas. Everyone does it. Just ask the Beatles.
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Lead, leave, learn, laud - and the inspiring example of Dorothy Vaughan.
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Schumpeter, Marx, revolutions, and the demise of Kodak
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Fail, to succeed. Just don't try my cooking.
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Great creativity comes from conflict. Live with it. Just ask the Beatles in the movie Let It Be.
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: What we learn from Wannabe and the brilliant Spice Girls.
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Add science to the art of creativity. And change your hairstyle.
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Find a fixer, like Queen Elizabeth 1 and Premier League managers.
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Cold shower or warm bath? Both are needed... Both have dangers...
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Ideas and the culture of creativity need to be embedded. How do we do it?
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Great empires knew how to celebrate success. That is one reason they lasted so long.
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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The journey from idea to delivery: Leader as party pooper. Dismantle, rebuild and get better. Like F1.
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Feb 25, 2022 |
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It's all about culture: Playing to win? Or destined to lose?
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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It's all about culture: Why I can't grow tomatoes.
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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It's all about culture: Here's to the wonderful women I worked for at Marks and Spencer
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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It's all about culture: Authority versus influence and the power of a piece of sandpaper.
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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It's all about culture: Do the boring documents undermine your values?
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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It's all about culture: Say it. Say it again. And again. And again.
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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It's all about culture: St Augustine got this one right. Boris didn't.
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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It's all about culture: How do you know you've got there?
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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Be a rebel: Beware the god of technology
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Be a rebel: VUCA is old hat. So let's be inspired by the Impressionists.
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Be a rebel: von Moltke and Mike Tyson said the same thing about strategic planning.
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Be a rebel: Malaria and influenza - and theories we had to change
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Be a rebel: What Rick Stein and Aristotle can teach us.
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Feb 12, 2022 |
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Making decisions: `....stop deliberating and go.'
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Making decisions: Read yourself, not just the data
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Making decisions: Read the room, not just the data
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Making decisions: The language of diplomacy has traditionally been French. Why? And how does that make for better decision-making?
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Making decisions: Is it just about the numbers?
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Making decisions: You don't make good decisions without....?
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Making decisions: What another leader of the free world taught me
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Making decisions: it's what you are there for.
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Feb 04, 2022 |
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Money is mindset: Money management is a team, not just a numbers, thing
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Money is mindset: I only know one bank joke
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Money is mindset: Johnson and Johnson got it right
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Money is mindset: The budget is a story first, then a set of numbers.
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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The art of silence 3: Jess Phillips MP for Birmingham Yardley talks about taking it for the team
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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The art of silence 2: Yes, we can learn things from Hannibal Lecter.
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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The art of silence 1: Be quiet, be attentive, be decisive
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Ethics rule OK again! It all comes out. Ask Forrest Gump. Or it goes wrong, and keeps going wrong. Ask Macbeth.
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Ethics rule OK again! Why do riots happen?
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Ethics rule OK again! The one time The Economist got it wrong
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Beware the imposter: The survey
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Beware the imposter: The anecdote
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Beware the imposter: Disaster
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Beware the imposter: Triumph
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Jan 29, 2022 |
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Managing yourself: Jose Mourinho was sacked...why?
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Managing yourself: Ancient Romans and training shoes.
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Managing yourself: Don't Google
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Managing yourself: The aircraft safety briefing has a metaphor we should all heed
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Managing yourself: Belle, from Beauty and the Beast, and McCartney advise us to be wary of the myths they invent about you
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Managing yourself: The opening scenes of Mary Poppins help us understand the illusion of control.
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Managing yourself: De-clutter. It's good for you and your work colleagues
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Managing yourself: Don't do diary, but DO do diary
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Managing yourself: Spot the monster and be like Wordsworth
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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Managing up: Chernobyl and the importance of TMI over TLI
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Managing up: Alexander Hamilton and the art of mind-reading
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Managing up: Mr Corleone likes to hear bad news immediately
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Managing up: Six key questions to discuss with your Chair, inspired by the last words of Casablanca
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Managing up: Your Chair's public-facing role - be like the Beach Boys
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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Managing up: Your relationship with your Chair. With some advice from Margaret Thatcher.
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Jan 22, 2022 |
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You are no longer you (you are the organisation) 4: Party or meeting, Prime Minister?
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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You are no longer you (you are the organisation) 3: You now have a megaphone
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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You are no longer you (you are the organisation) 2: Corporate empathy and the Queen of England
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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You are no longer you (you are the organisation) 1: Napoleon speaks again
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Jan 19, 2022 |
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Do less, think more - welcome to politics
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Do less, think more - and take advice from King Lear's fool.
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Do less, think more - inner circles, and why to avoid them.
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Do less, think more - Raymond Blanc versus Masterchef
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Do less, think more - it's like conducting an orchestra...
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Jan 14, 2022 |
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Mr Banks in Mary Poppins got it wrong. We don't have to.
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Inclusive leadership is no longer an option.
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Keeping great people is not just about paying them more money.
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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`Don't fear change. Plan for it,' she said. And she was right.
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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How should leaders adapt to the new challenges of 2022?
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Jan 08, 2022 |
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Now you're the boss - what can quick drying woodstain teach us?
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Now you're the boss - developing the right personal mythology
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Now you're the boss - generate good gossip
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Now you're the boss - you are the painter, story teller and preacher
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Now you're the boss - and what I learned from watching my children ride horses.
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Now you're the boss - first encounters
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Now you're the boss .... what are you there for? #2
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Now you're the boss .... what are you there for? #1
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Now you're the boss, life changes for ever
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Jan 01, 2022 |
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Play chess 7: Your new salary - it's more than just agreeing a number
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Play chess 6: Do your research
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Play chess 5: Acquaint yourself with the volcano
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Play chess 4: Are you lonely tonight?
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Play chess 3: What the Spice Girls teach us
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Play chess 2: A word from `Die Hard'
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Play chess 1: Skates on!
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Unhappy talk 4: There's a reason we got bad marks in maths
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Unhappy talk 3: Be a sponge
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Unhappy talk 2: Don't think...
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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Unhappy talk 1: Process, process, process
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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S2 E30: Making meetings work: The day I got married
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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S2 E36: Making meetings work: All talk, no action?
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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S2 E35: Making meetings work: Don't be an Olympic Committee Chair
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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S2 E34: Making meetings work: Don't be Jane Austen
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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S2 E33: Making meetings work: Gatsby and who's who in the zoo?
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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S2 E32: Making meetings work: The witches from Macbeth asked:`When shall we three meet again....?'
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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S2 E31: Making meetings work: Doom or joy?
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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S2 E29: You and your people 12: The story of Paul McCartney's trumpet
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Aug 06, 2021 |
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S2 E28: You and your people 11: What we learn from Billy Elliot's teacher
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Jul 30, 2021 |
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S2 E27: You and your people 10: Are you good at disappointing people?
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Jul 26, 2021 |
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S2 E26: You and your people 9: `Too many notes, Mr Mozart.'
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Jul 23, 2021 |
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S2 E25: You and your people 8: Undercommunicate? Overcommunicate?
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Jul 19, 2021 |
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S2 E24: You and your people 7: People don't listen. Or do they?
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Jul 16, 2021 |
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S2 E23: You and your people 6: My favourite Elton John song
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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S2 E22: You and your people 5: A leader can't always be kind - some advice on dealing with underperformance
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Jul 08, 2021 |
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S2 E21: You and your people 4: Some advice for Scott Morrison
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Jul 05, 2021 |
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S2 E20: You and your people 3: The best advice I ever heard about being a father of daughters
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Jul 02, 2021 |
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S2 E19: You and your people 2: A word from the Godfather
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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S2 E18: You and your people 1: A word from Alex Ferguson
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Jun 28, 2021 |
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Q+A #4: Avoiding the perils of over-promotion
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Jun 25, 2021 |
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S2 E17: Blowing it 5: Avoid nostalgia
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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S2 E16: Blowing it 4: Fall a little bit in love
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Jun 21, 2021 |
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Q+A #3: Managing negativity and the words of Dolly Parton
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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S2 E15: Blowing it 3: Don't become Henry VIII
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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S2 E14: Blowing it 2: Don't be a dud
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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S2 E13: Blowing it 1: Stare into the abyss
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Jun 14, 2021 |
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Interlude 2: Anatomy of a cock-up
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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S2 E12: What went before 3: mediocrity and complacency are everywhere...
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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S2 E11: What went before 2: Taking over from a winner
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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S2 E10: What went before 1: Taking over a disaster
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Jun 07, 2021 |
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Interlude 1: How does the accidental leader manage their accidental followers?
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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S2 E9: Learner Leader 3: A couple of comments from Napoleon Bonaparte
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May 31, 2021 |
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S2 E8: Learner Leader 2: Seek the golden nuggets
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May 31, 2021 |
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S2 E7: Learner Leader 1: Humble pie
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May 31, 2021 |
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Interlude 1: The accidental long-term leader
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May 26, 2021 |
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Interlude 1: The accidental short-term leader
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May 26, 2021 |
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Interlude 1: The accidental leader
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May 25, 2021 |
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S2 E6: Know yourself 5: Be an instinctive deleter
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May 24, 2021 |
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S2 E5 Know yourself 4: Manage anxiety. Don't let anxiety manage you.
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May 24, 2021 |
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S2 E4 Know yourself 3: Get away to come back more strongly
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May 24, 2021 |
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S2 E3 Know yourself #2: Ethics rule even more now, OK?
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May 15, 2021 |
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S2 E2 Know yourself #1 - You don't need to be a genius...
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May 15, 2021 |
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S2 E1 Trailer to Bitesize Boss S2 - why should you listen to this Series?
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May 15, 2021 |
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S1 E21: Transition 7 - First day launch
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May 07, 2021 |
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S1 E20: Transition 6 - Critical to have a critical friend
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May 07, 2021 |
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S1 E19: Transition 5 - Get reading...
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May 07, 2021 |
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S1 E18: Transition 4 - Nothing succeeds like sushi
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May 01, 2021 |
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S1 E17: Transition 3 - Be pleasantly surprised
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May 01, 2021 |
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S1 E16: Transition 2 - Value the heroes
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May 01, 2021 |
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S1 E15: Transition 1 - Handover - nuclear submarine style
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May 01, 2021 |
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S1 E14: Beware the blueprint
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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S1 E13: Lockdown leadership
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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S1 E12: Don't believe the job description 2
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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S1 E11: Don't believe the job description 1
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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S1 E10: To move or not to move?
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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S1 E9: Talk to the Home Team
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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S1 E8: Rejection: it's part of the game.
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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S1 E7: Are you a mind-reader?
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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S1 E3 Passing the Pub Test
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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S1 E6 Ethics rule, OK?
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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S1 E5 First rule of leadership, Princess....
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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S1 E4 Dreaming the dream. Dreaming the right dream.
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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S1 E2 Who are you? Who am I?
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Apr 12, 2021 |
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S1 E1 Trailer to Bitesize Boss - Single thoughts for single-minded people
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Apr 12, 2021 |