Management Today's Leadership Lessons

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Management Today's Leadership Lessons podcast is aimed at entertaining, educating and inspiring people to be better leaders.
The podcast delves into the world of leadership and management, bringing fresh insights, trends and advice to the ears of busy senior leaders.
We interview CEOs, founders, authors, executive coaches, business professors and other experts to discover the real secrets to effective leadership.
We also provide crucial insight into some of the biggest business stories of the day to help you stay ahead of the curve. 
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P&G’s revival, ‘woke’ leadership and what CEOs really think of the new flexible working rules

Apr 25 2024 16 mins  
On the latest episode of Leadership Lessons, Antonia Garrett Peel and Éilis Cronin discuss how P&G fought off the start-up disruptors, the CEO who has been nicknamed leader of ‘Wokeminster’ City Council and what chief executives think of the new flexible working rules.Links:https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/ceos-new-flexible-working-bill/hybrid-working/article/1869418https

How to become a 'friction fixer'

Apr 17 2024 40 mins  
Every organisation is clogged with destructive friction – from convoluted meetings to antiquated technologies – that chips away at “our initiative, commitment and zest for work”. That's the contention at the centre of a new book from Stanford professors Bob Sutton and Huggy Rao, which aims to teach people how to "live like a friction fixer".This week on Leade

Wayward CEOs, doing ‘life admin’ at work and innovation obstacles

Apr 11 2024 13 mins  
On today’s episode, we discuss why great creative ideas fail to get off the ground, whether it’s time for leaders to embrace the “life admin reality”, and revisit some outlandish CEO antics from the business annals.Links:https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/yes-staff-life-admin-work-heres-why-leaders-embrace-it/opinion/article/1867800https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/when-ceos

Lessons from the world’s costliest corporate cyberattacks

Apr 04 2024 19 mins  
Cybercrime is not an issue that is likely to disappear any time soon. During the course of 2023, according to Statista, the number of cyber incidents reported by UK businesses rose by more than a third. In 2022, 28% of businesses said they identified one breach or attack in the previous 12 months, compared to 21%. Indeed, the UK is the economy most at risk of cyber attack, accordin

Podcast: Plastic problems, AI tools and a crusade to create a world of better bosses

Mar 28 2024 14 mins  
On this week's episode, we discuss Admiral founder Henry Engelhardt’s crusade to create a world of better bosses, how AI can be used in the workplace to help human employees, and business’s plastic problem.Links:https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/management-hypocrisy-leadership-red-lines-insurance-tycoon-henry-engelhardt/interviews/article/1866388https://www.managementtoday.co.u

The psychology of successful groups

Mar 21 2024 38 mins  
Do you want to create a successful team? Then you should start a workplace choir, share a spicy group meal before a difficult meeting and take up pickleball. These are some of the tricks proposed by the guests on this episode of Management Today's Leadership Lessons.  Robin Dunbar, University of Oxford’s emeritus professor of evolutionary psychology, and the co-fou

Gardening leave, making things that can’t fail and the inside story of Blockbuster’s demise

Mar 14 2024 16 mins  
On today’s episode, we discuss why Blockbuster really failed (with the inside story from former CEO James Keyes), the importance of agility and the issues raised by extended gardening leave. Links:https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/why-blockbuster-really-went-bankrupt-according-its-former-ceo/interviews/article/1863669https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/when-does-gardening-leave-cea

Why Mark Dixon is building 'Uber for offices' - without a WeWork comparison in sight

Mar 07 2024 45 mins  
This week’s guest is Mark Dixon, the founder and CEO of IWG - formerly known as Regus - which is the largest flexible office network worldwide. Mark is a serial entrepreneur. He dropped out of school aged 16 to start his first business selling sandwiches from a butcher’s bike. Next came a hot dog venture, then a bakery which he sold aged 28 for £800,000. He then set up Re

Staying schtum in meetings, Amex and IBM's UK chiefs, and female representation on boards

Feb 29 2024 14 mins  
On today’s episode, we discuss female representation on FTSE 350 boards, the real reasons employees keep quiet in meetings and some pearls of wisdom from Amex and IBM's respective UK leaders. Keep an ear out for a shameless plug of MT's latest series.Links:https://www.managementtoday.co.uk/know-real-reasons-employees-keeping-schtum-meetings/indepth/article/1861869https://www.mana

The CEO who bought her manufacturer

Feb 22 2024 40 mins  
Today we meet Tricia Cusden, founder of Look Fabulous Forever.Frustrated with the lack of conversation around good quality products available for mature skin, the now 75-year old launched cosmetics company Look Fabulous Forever in 2013, working alongside her two daughters Anna and Suzy.She and Anna discuss the inspiration behind the company, navigating the world of e-commerce while