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No Bullsh!t Leadership
No Bullsh!t Leadership is a podcast for leaders who want to become truly exceptional. Each week, your host, Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Martin G Moore, shares the secrets of high performance leadership; the career accelerators that you can’t learn in business school, and your boss is unli...
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How to Lead in Uncertainty: 6 Signs Your Team Is Frozen
One of your critical jobs as a leader is to absorb the ambiguity that you’re facing, and turn that into certainty for your people.
If you can’t...
How to Focus Your Team on Value: 6 Signs They're Just Busy
When you reward long hours, instead of rewarding the results that make a difference, you're paying for effort instead of value.
You can't hold s...
How to Stop Doing Your Team's Job: 6 Signs You're in the Weeds
When you rewrite one of your people's reports at 9pm, you're not just compensating for their weakness. You're reinforcing it.
That report was th...
How to Stop Avoiding Difficult Conversations: 6 Signs It's You
When you have an underperformer on your team, but you haven’t given them specific performance feedback, you're reinforcing their underperformance.
How to Hold Your Team Accountable: 6 Signs Nobody Owns Anything
Somewhere on your team right now there's a person who isn't delivering. You thought of their name before you got to the end of that sentence.
Ov...
Stop Taking the Pressure Home: 3 Ways to Compartmentalise | Moment 188
When you feel swamped and overwhelmed, it’s easy to go home and kick the cat.
But if you learn to compartmentalise, you’ll find it much easier...
How to Build a Team That Performs Without You: 16 Real Questions
We asked 800 leaders one question. What's actually hard about leadership right now?
The answers were so good we decided to answer them live. No...
How Do You Lead Your Old Team Mates? | Moment 187
Being promoted to a new leadership level is a difficult transition to make. But it’s even tougher when you’re promoted to lead the team you used to be...
Your Ultimate Talent Identification Checklist
Every time you fill a vacancy, you have to make a choice: do you promote someone from within, who you may know quite well, or take a punt on someone y...
Will You Choose to Accept the Cost of Leadership? | Moment 186
There are three costs of leadership that nobody tells you about when you get promoted; and they are a given.
You can no more change them than yo...
3 Mindset Shifts When You're Unhappy At Work
When leaders are unhappy at work, they often blame the company. But more often it’s a sign of dissatisfaction with their own inability to work within...
Better Decisions, Faster: Why Consensus Slows Your Team | Moment 185
Speed can be a performance multiplier, if you can build it into your culture.
But there are going to be times when you need to back off… and pa...
12 Execution Breakthroughs for Leading Leaders
If you're leading leaders, accountability is the first thing that breaks. You're not overloaded. You just rely too much on your own individual brillia...
How to Build a No Blame, No Excuses Culture | Moment 184
McLaren won back-to-back F1 championships when the CEO replaced victimhood and blame with a culture that guaranteed top shelf performance.
That...
Stop Solving Your Team's Problems: 6 Ways to Execute Like Elon
If you look at the spectacular results that Tesla has achieved as a business, it might entice you to try to emulate Elon Musk’s leadership approach. <...
Moment 183. 3 Timeless Principles of Success in 4 Minutes
There are 3 success principles that are particularly relevant for the new world we’re leading in. And they have nothing to do with luck, talent, or co...
5 Ways To Align People's Pay With Their Value
Can you explain clearly why the people on your team are paid what they're being paid? If you can't, you may have a hidden problem eating away at your...
Moment 182. Do You Understand Your Psychological Contract?
The psychological contract is the mutual understanding between an employer and employee about their respective obligations to each other.
There...
Stop Rescuing Underperformers: How to Make Consequences Stick
Underperformers don't change because you ask them nicely. They only change when they can no longer avoid the consequences of not delivering.
Eve...
Moment 181. Getting Maximum Mileage From Your 1:1s
As a corporate executive and CEO, the 1:1 meeting was the single most powerful weapon I had in my leadership arsenal. It was here that I mobilised my...
The 2 Hardest Conversations You'll Have With Your Top Talent
Your top talent doesn't always quit because they're unhappy. Often, they simply can’t see what their next move is. And if that’s the case, it’s not th...
Moment 180. How to Eliminate Hiring Mistakes
Most job interviews are just friendly chats. They don’t provide any real due diligence.
Making the right hiring choice requires a lot more than...
Meetings: When to speak, when to listen
Meetings can be a political minefield, and most leaders rely purely on their instinct to get by: which means they get it wrong more often than they re...
Moment 179. Why You Keep Avoiding the Hard Thing
Leadership might be hard, but there’s nothing you can’t master with application and discipline. This is why the toughest challenge is often just convi...
The Real Reason Your Team Moves So Slowly
When we think about high-performing teams, we assume they have superior strategies and top-class talent. But one characteristic we often overlook is p...
Moment 178. Team Building Exercises Are Useless!
Team building exercises don’t build teams. Only leadership does.
If you’re thinking about investing in time away from the office, think again. T...
AI for Leaders in 2026: Promoted or Replaced?
Have you ever sat in a meeting about AI, nodded along, then thought, "I've got no idea what they're talking about, and I'm meant to be leading this"?...
Moment 177. Stop Disempowering Your People!
Virtually every leader likes to talk about empowering their team. But if you were to ask 10 of them what empowerment actually means, you’d get 11 diff...
Dealing With an Employee You “Can't” Fire: 2 questions every leader needs to ask
Talented jerks and people who game the system just need to go.
The value they bring through their technical skill is massively outweighed by th...
Moment 176. Don't Lose Your Most Talented People!
Your best people know they have plenty of options, so if they don’t feel the work they’re doing is valuable, challenging, and impactful, it doesn't ma...
Nailing Your Formal Performance Review
Most leaders DREAD the formal performance review; because they don’t prepare and they don’t know what to expect. Today I go deep on how to control the...
Moment 175. Don’t Let Weakness Ruin Your Empathy
Empathy is a critical leadership capability: without it, you’ll never get the best out of your people.
But if you’re not strong enough to hold...
8 Surprising Ways to Reduce Unwanted Turnover
Most leaders think high turnover is a retention problem. But it’s not; it's a leadership problem. And the fix is the exact opposite of what most leade...
Moment 174. Want to Lift Performance? Manage Better!
If you think great leaders don't need to be great managers, you've probably got a blindspot…and it's costing you more than you know.
To lift per...
Don't Be Sucked In By Player-Coach Leadership!
When CEOs cut management layers, they often kid themselves that they're building leaner, faster companies.
But what they're actually doing is d...
Moment 173. Why the Participation Trophy is Killing Your Team
In business, it’s an indisputable fact that stronger competition results in better outcomes for everyone. Why are we so reluctant, then, to increase c...
Can You Learn Charisma?
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 co...
Moment 172. Too Much Compliance Will Kill Your Culture
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 control...
Consistent Leaders Get Superior Results
Your people aren't struggling because the work is hard. They're struggling because they can't predict you. Inconsistent leadership doesn't just frustr...
Moment 171. Busywork Will Kill Your Performance
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 diffe...