No Bullsh!t Leadership
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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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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...
8 Years, 400 Episodes, and the Lessons We Learned the Hard Way
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 conv...
Moment 170. 4 Ways to Prevent a Crisis Before It Starts
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...
5 Rules for Multiplying Value Through Alliances
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 a...
Moment 169. Why Family Culture Destroys Performance
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...
Champions Do Extra: 6 Leadership Habits That Separate Top Performers
Most leaders do enough to get by. A select few do extra. And that gap is almost the entire difference between a career that stagnates and one that acc...
Moment 168. The Accountability Gap That Kills Performance
If you want to improve your team’s performance, single-point accountability is the biggest, most impactful lever you can pull.
The culture is di...
The Leadership Trade-Offs That Make or Break Teams
Most decisions you make as a leader look reasonable on the whiteboard.
But in the real world, you're rarely deciding between black and white op...
Moment 167. Don’t Let These 3 Mistakes Derail Your Career
With the benefit of hindsight, I’ve been able to isolate the 3 biggest mistakes that I made in my career as a corporate executive: they really slowed...
How Many Direct Reports Is Too Many?
Why your direct reports are underperforming and how to turn it around.
What happens when you give one manager 50 direct reports and call it inn...
Moment 166. Success 101: Put Yourself Out There
Some people love to be in the thick of the action, making a difference. But the much larger majority are more comfortable watching from the sidelines....
What Do You Do When the Results Don't Come?
Not getting the results you expected? Don’t blame luck, because in leadership, results are rarely random, and the causes are rarely a mystery.
Y...
Moment 165. How To Avoid Expensive Tech Project Failures
Virtually every organisation is racing to adopt AI. And, although AI offers the promise of groundbreaking productivity, the projects required to deliv...
The Biggest Lie in Business: Strategy Happens at the Top
Strategy starts at the top, but competitive advantage is built in the middle.
Has your boss ever told you that you need to be more strategic? <...
Moment 164. Don't Be Conned By These Leadership Myths!
A lot of contemporary leadership wisdom on the internet could just as easily be found in a fortune cookie 🥠
The reason the sayings become so po...
Stop Blaming HR and Start Using It
Leaders love blaming HR for bureaucracy, red tape, and generally slowing things down.
But these same leaders have no idea how to use HR properl...
Moment 163. How to Find Every Person's Sweet Spot
Some people simply refuse to rise to the standard you’re setting for the team.
Before you decide they need to go, though, it’s important to try...
When Your Boss Has No Backbone: The 4 Behaviours That Kill Performance
Working for a weak leader is both exhausting and suffocating.
You put in the effort;
you care about the outcome; you try to lift the standard…a...
Moment 162. Small Steps Build Big Confidence
You can’t deal with a gap or a weak spot in your performance by ignoring it. Doubling down on your arrogance, as many leaders do, doesn’t help anyone…...
Do Hands-On Leaders Get Better Results?
Think hands-on leadership is a strength? You might just be the problem on your team.
What's the one leadership behaviour that makes your team's...
Moment 161. Onboarding New Hires the RIGHT Way
Onboarding isn't admin. It's where standards, trust, and performance begin.
When someone new joins the team, it’s easy to take it for granted t...