Podcast

Episode #370: How Leaders Can Do A Better Job Of Engaging Their Staff

Many decades ago, I remember a visiting Korean business delegation coming to my home town of Brisbane. At t...

Episode #369: How To Join The Culture Champion Workplaces – Part Three

In Part Two we have looked at getting engagement, having transparency and the impact of tech. One issue can...

Episode #368: How To Join The Culture Champion Workplaces – Part Two

In Part One, we have looked at how to identify the culture in the organisation and if it is a keeper, the nu...

Episode #367: How To Join The Culture Champion Workplaces – Part One

Harvard Emeritus Professor James Heskett’s comparative study of the impact culture has on corporate financia...

Episode #366: Leadership For Sales Managers In The Online World

Covid-19 hit business in Japan like a brick thown through a shop window. All of a sudden everything was a m...

Episode #365: Back To The Future At The Workplace

Let’s presume you have all of the safety protocols in place for providing a safe working environment. How d...

Episode #364: The Great Safe Return To The Workplace Caper in Japan

Congratulations on escaping the Covid-19 virus by staying safe and working from home. We all want to see ou...

Episode #363: Seize The Moment With Your Leader Storytelling

Covid-19 has changed the world from a personal health risk point of view and has also trashed industries, ca...

Episode #362: Social Intelligence For Leaders In Covid-19

We admire people with very high IQs, as badges of intellectual prowess. Members of Mensa International are ...

Episode #361: The Leader Must Be The Flagbearer Of Hope

Daily reports of doom and gloom descend on all of us through the media. Unemployment, enterprise obliterati...

Episode #360: Embracing Change In This Covid-19 Crisis

The concept of co-existence with the virus puts a different spin on the “new normal”. Yes, the lockdowns ar...

Episode #359: Bad Bosses In Covid-19

Douglas McGregor coined the descriptors Theory X and Theory Y bosses back in the 1960s. Basically, Theory X...

Episode #358: Eight Ninja Leadership Skills For Covid-19

Many leaders get to the top because they are very smart, technically skilled people, with broad experience a...

Episode #357: Stressed Leaders Must Lead Their People Through This Stress

Watching your business implode is stressful. Losing access to good staff through furloughs, firing loyal pe...

Episode #356: Leading From The Covid-19 War Frontline

In wartime, there are leaders back at HQ, pouring over maps, receiving intelligence, creating strategies and...

Episode #355: Lockdown Leadership And Coordination

Technically Japan hasn’t gone into lockdown, as other countries have, but in typical Japanese fashion, it is...

Episode #354: The Nuts And Bolts Of Running Virtul Meetings

Running meetings used to pretty straightforward. We would all assemble in the meeting room, go through the ...

Episode #353: Leading Your Japanese Team In Lockdown

Your team are sitting at home, unable to go outside and so as the leader what are your priorities? Crunchin...

Episode #352: Covid-19 Financial Crisis Leadership

The Covid-19 virus is nomadic, persistently wandering around the countries of the world infecting people and...

Episode #351: Two Waves Theory And Covid-19 Leadership

As an Aussie, I enjoy going surfing in Australia. Blue skies, golden beaches, clean oceans and good surf ma...