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Author Francois Keyser shares his author experience and journey with listeners and offers advice and guidance with regard to publishing and writing.Francois also reads extracts from his books and interviews authors about their books and writing experience.He also reviews books on his podcast. If you would like to join Francois on his podcast to be interviewed or share information about publishing, contact him with your request at fkeyser1@gmail.com
Are you looking to taking your leadership to the next level? Perhaps you’re in a new role, in charge of a big initiative, or looking to move roles.You’ve come to the right place for strategies, tips, lessons distilled from the world's leading management thinkers, entrepreneurs, executives and academics.
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François Ortalo-Magné: Leading clever people
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How do you lead a group of clever, brilliant people? That’s a question I posed of Francois Ortalo-Magne, Dean and CEO of the London Business School. We delve into his world as the leader of the one of the world’s most prestigious business schools. We talk about: Harnessing the collective intelligence of his faculty and students for the greater good…
How good is your writing at work? It's rather important. Think about your bids, pitches, presentations, Executive or Board papers, investment cases and, of course, emails. Too often writing is dry, technocratic, and overly complex. It makes it hard for the reader to understand in one go, or at all. It limits your ability to convince them of your th…
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Richard Bistrong: Moving from corruption to compliance
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The news is littered with examples of ethical lapses and corruption. In fact, a Strategy& study showed that it was the biggest reason for CEOs resigning. Yet, compliance is still a word and a practice that is not always considered pivotal to the success of organisations. It’s often perceived as part of the bureaucracy that stops or slows down progr…
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Liz Fosslien: Learning from your emotions
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How much do you suppress your emotions at work? What if you could be more aware of them, in control of them, and learn from them? That’s the topic of my conversation with Liz Fosslein in this episode. She shares her stories, research, and experience of tapping into Big Emotions, captured so brilliantly in her book of the same name, co authored with…
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Episode 1: Francois' journey to becoming an author.
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In this first episode of Francois' author journey, Francois shares the details of his career before he finally took the step of returning to his childhood dream of being an author. In the experience tht Francois shares there are some valuable takeaways for any listener regrdless of whether they want to be an author or follow a different dream that …
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Ruchika Tulsyan: Reinventing culture from the inside out
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You’re looking to build a higher performing team, or organisation, where more people can do their best. Sounds simple, right? But there are some biases and blockers in the way. You know that you’ve got work to do but you’re not sure where to start. You look around and realise that you hire and promote people who look like you and the other members …
The first chapter of WordRealm originally written as a fantasy novel and now converted to a podcast. In this episode we are introduced to Broll and Shath who created a jewel when they cast a spell to ensure they could be brought back to life after the gods cursed them for abusing their magic powers in battling one another. The jewel they have begun…
What can a banker who built one of the biggest financial empires in the world and was a major philanthropist teach us about strategic leadership? A lot, in fact. I talk to Dan Gross, the author of a biography on Edmond J. Safra called ‘A banker’s life’. It’s a fascinating counter to many of the practices we hear and see – for better or worse – in m…
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Bill George: Reinventing your leadership authentically
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Bill George tells me that this the most difficult time to be a leader he’s seen in his life as they face major generational, political, societal shifts and challenges. The traditional command and control approach to leadership and management doesn’t work. Instead, we need more authentic leaders have a clearer, longer-term view of what it takes to m…
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Andy Woodfield: Coming out as your best self
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What would it take to show and give your absolute best at work? Even having to ask the question suggests there’s something amiss. Perhaps it’s because we’ve been told what we’re not good at that we’ve forgotten what we are good at. Or we’ve been wearing a mask for so long that it’s all become part of a performance. Andy Woodfield has spent his care…
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Bruce Daisley: Drawing Strength from Others
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When you’re feeling life is tough, you’re typically told to ride it out, put your head down, get through it. That might help some people, for a while. But it’s missing something. Only when we reach out to others, find a connection, get some support that we truly feel better – using fortitude. In this podcast Bruce Daisley challenges conventional wi…
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Gena Cox: Building Inclusive Organisations
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Inclusion has been one of those terms we might reserve for HR, an initiative, or a special interest group. Wrong. It’s critical to the success of any organisation, and a moral responsibility. For too long, traditionally disadvantaged groups – by race, gender, sexuality – have progressed slower and had poorer experiences at work. Their leaders – fro…
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Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic: Supercharging human performance
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We’re moving into the age of psychological capital based on curiosity and creativity. We need to harness data on behaviours more effectively to help us understand people in an unbiased, objective, and meritocratic way. It might sound straightforward but it will require overcoming resistance especially from those who have grown into senior leadershi…
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Laura Vanderkam: Making Time for What Matters
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How strategic are you with your time, attention, and energy? Many successful executives aren’t, surprisingly. Their days are overly busy (some feel proud of this), as if their schedules run their life. They’re racing against the clock, trying to get through never-ending to-do lists. They feel exhausted by the weekend, and frustrations fester as the…
Work relationships can be hard. Too often we grin and bear it as if we have no choice. Or throw up our hands because one-size-fits-all solutions haven't worked. Many of us walk away, avoiding difficult people. But we can only endure so much thoughtless, irrational, or malicious behaviour—there's your sanity to consider, and your career. In her book…
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Paul Polman: Creating companies that give more than they take
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Time is running out for our planet. We are taking more than we are giving. CSR targets don’t go far enough. And societal inequality is on the rise. It requires a rethink of how we do business, how we lead organisations, how we measure impact. Who better to set out the manifesto for change than Paul Polman, the former CEO of Unilever and co founder …
You feel there’s something important to say at work. An idea that could make a big difference. Or a behaviour that’s not good. But you’re not sure whether you should because there isn’t enough psychological safety. Perhaps there’s toxicity in the culture or a strong prevailing way of doing things. You calling something out might be risky to your st…
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Andrea Olson: Truly understanding your customers
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Many organisations say that they are customer-centric. But when you look inside they’re far from it. Customers come a distant second to their product or service. And when they do focus on them, they often apply simplistic assumptions about how we think, feel, and behave. Andrea Olson is a behavioural scientist who has studied how to learn what cust…
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Jeffrey Shaw: Crafting your best self-employed life
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About Jeffrey: Jeffrey Shaw is a speaker and small business coach who helps self-employed and small business owners gain control of their business in what seems like otherwise uncontrollable circumstances. Drawing on his experience as a renowned portrait photographer, Jeffrey shows business owners how to see business through a different lens and st…
You're a founder, Board member or Senior Executive. Tasked with scaling your business profitably and sustainably. But you're facing a complex, dynamic, volatile and uncertain environment. How do you make smart decisions about where to focus, and how to stimulate innovation in a world of ecosystems? How do you use venture capital wisely? How can you…
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Steve Blank: Reinventing entrepreneurship
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How do you scale-up a start-up? How do you make sure a large corporate doesn't stifle innovation? These are questions - and many more - that Steve Blank has been addressing for decades as one of the world's leading authorities on entrepreneurship and innovation. In this podcast find out what: Companies do to innovation as they grow. The problem wit…
Summary: Imagine your daughter or son, niece or nephew telling you that they couldn’t access the facilities like a museum, taxi, or arts gallery. What would you do? You’d feel disappointed. You might even write a letter to complain. But would you try to overhaul the system? That’s a big ask for any parent or relative. But that’s exactly what Janice…
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Roger Martin: Thinking afresh about business
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Summary: Whether we realise it or not, we all use mental models to think about our context (customers, competitors), make choices, structure work, and undertake key activities (such as doing innovation or pursuing M&A). But how often do you stop for a moment to challenge them? Often we operate on autopilot. If they don't work, we try again, and aga…
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Bill Fischer: The myths and magic of innovation
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Summary: Innovation is a topic that always comes up in my work with CEOs, senior executives and entrepreneurs. We focus on how to: create an innovation portfolio. balance different types of innovation. develop a more innovative culture. open up the organisation to external stimulus. But there are lots of myths and misunderstandings. Innovation "the…
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Paul Leinwand and Matt Mani: Rethinking leadership beyond digital
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Summary: “Digital transformation” is a big buzzword in business. But digital initiatives alone are not enough to win in the marketplace -- companies need to reimagine the compelling value they will offer and how they will create it in a differentiating way. Two senior partners from Strategy&, former colleagues and friends, set out seven leadership …
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Katy Milkman: How can you change for the better? And stick at it?
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Summary: The last few years will have forced or encouraged us to make changes in our lives. In a positive light, some people have spent better quality time with family and friends, enjoyed the company of their neighbours, exercised more regularly and taken up hobbies again. But when the pressure's on, and there's no systemic "shock" to deal with, i…
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Felix Oberholzer-Gee: Simplifying strategy for the better
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Summary: Strategy is a mystery to many of us. It’s an over-used, misunderstood term in business. Put simply, a strategy is a plan to create value. Don’t start with profit though. That’s the result of strategy. Instead, use a "value stick" which provides a way of measuring the two fundamental forces that lead to value creation and increased financia…
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Alisa Cohn: Making the shift from start-up founder to world-class CEO
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Summary: Being a founder of a start-up takes courage, grit, entrepreneurial spirit. It takes a special kind of person. Somebody who is enormously self-driven, -determined and -motivated. But how far will these traits take you as you look to scale your business? And what will you need to start, stop and change in your leadership style? How will you …
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Michael Bungay Stanier: How to start doing something that matters
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Summary: How many of us set goals for ourselves? It might be in one of those dreadful HR processes at work. Or a memorable event during the year, like New Year or your birthday. We write them down, sometimes share them with family and friends, work at them. But how many of them help us really get somewhere? Too often we settle for the status quo, o…
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Dorie Clark: Taking Small Steps in your Long Game
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Summary Many of us are impatient. We’re ambitious, keen to see the spoils of success, but also a little insecure, wondering if we’re going to make it or whether a friend or colleague will get there first. So we go all in, putting in the hours, risking overwork or burnout. Or we focus on what feels easy, guaranteed or glamorous in the moment. At the…
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Deepa Purushothaman: Finding, feeling, and forging your power in the corporate world
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Summary: Women of color are one of the fastest-growing segments in the corporate workforce, yet often we are underrepresented—among the first, few, or only ones in a department or company. For too long, corporate structures, the social zeitgeist, and cultural conditioning have left them feeling exhausted and downtrodden, believing that in order to …
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Niko Canner: Finding your extraordinary path
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Summary: Organisations are crying out for more strategic leaders. These are the people who are brave enough to make a commitment to an extraordinary path, and skilful enough to make a multitude of choices to get there. They’re able to reframe complex problems as they shape brighter futures for those around them. In conversation they stretch and sup…
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Matt Dawson MBE: Managing elite career transitions
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Making a career transition is hard at the best of times. And it’s likely that more of us will make them, either by our own making or by necessity as we live longer. It can be even harder when you’ve operated at an elite level. How do you take the best bits of your performance and use them in a new field? How do you reposition yourself, recreating y…
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Whitney Johnson: Mastering your learning curves
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How do you master the process of changing as a professional and as a person? How do you understand where you are on the S-curve of learning? And when you do, what will you do next? Dig into exploring the possibilities in front of you, shift gear and career, or disrupt yourself once you’ve reached mastery? How to avoid the distractions that impede y…
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Saiyyidah Zaidi: Belonging in the workplace
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Summary: Take a moment and ask yourself: what do you stand for, and how do you want to show up at work? These are the two critical questions to address when you think about your identity. And if you feel a sense of belonging, a concept far richer and deeper than just inclusion, you’re going to feel that you can express your identity fully and openl…
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Costas Markides: Mastering clarity in strategy
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Summary: The world of business is packed full of terminology, jargon, buzzwords. I’ve probably used too much of it myself. But what do we mean by innovation, customer centricity, agility? Too often we’re not clear so we have parallel conversations, or simply people disengage leaving the important decisions to a clique or the dominant few. My guest …
Being competent, solid, committed isn't enough in extraordinary times - of ambiguity, complexity and uncertainty. Impact players do far more than these typical contributors. They: 1. Do the job that’s needed 2. Step up, step back 3. Finish stronger 4. Ask and adjust 5. Make work light They have a healthy disregard for rules, although are savvy enou…
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Ron Carucci: lead with the power of truth, justice and purpose
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Summary: Look around you in the worlds of business and politics. Think of leaders and organisations you admire. Or those that disappoint you. How honest are they in their intentions, and actions? How purposeful are they? In his book 'To Be Honest: Lead with the power of purpose, truth, and justice' Ron Carucci argues that these three elements are f…
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Christian Stadler and Julia Hautz: Opening Up Strategy
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For too long, strategy has been conceived and designed behind closed doors, at the top table. For leaders to invite others to contribute is often seen as a sign of weakness, diminishing the leaders’ stature, authority, and control. However, the reality is that leaders often find it difficult to develop imaginative ideas on their own, shackled as th…
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Ruth Gotian: What we can learn from the super successful
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Think of your favourite role model, superstar, elite professional. It may be somebody who’s won a Nobel Prize, won an Olympic gold, or flown to the moon. What can you, we, learn from them? Surely they’re out of league, in a different stratosphere, literally in some cases? Not so, we can actually learn a lot. They share similar mindsets and practice…
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Paolo Gallo: Leading with clarity, care and coherence
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What do inspirational leaders do? How do they think? And how do they look after themselves? They certainly have to be able to learn, and reinvent themselves. Build trust with others. They have to see the bigger picture whilst mastering the fine detail of their business. They have to be clear on what they stand for, and and take care of themselves s…
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Amii Barnard-Bahn: How to enhance your promotability
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What does it take to promote yourself in the best possible way? And how do you do it in a non-obnoxious way? Work on your self-awareness - explore your values, preferences and motivations. Get some insightful feedback (not forgetting your peers) on how you show up and understand what's valued by people who matter. Develop your executive presence, a…
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Margaret Heffernan: How to navigate a complex world to map the future
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In complex times we've come to expect the future to be predictable, as strange as that sounds. Seduced by an algorithm or the prediction of a confident economist we think less, become more anxious, and lose some of our creativity and imagination. We become passive and gullible, relying on simplifications or false determinism. My guest in this episo…
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Dan Cable: how to be exceptional through empowerment
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Summary: If you’re an ambitious person, you’ll be working out what it takes to be exceptional at work (and everywhere). You’ll know that working super hard helps, but won’t be enough – and might eventually burn you out. Getting candid feedback on what you need to change is critical. It goes hand in hand with compassion, funnily enough. You’ll want …
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Josie Thomson: how to manage your mind to make smart decisions
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How do you make difficult decisions under pressure? How do you avoid being "triggered" by some bad behaviour, choice words or a surprising event? These are important questions for any executive, professional or entrepreneur, daily. Managing your mind is critical. In practice, this means developing greater conscious of what you're thinking, what you…
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David Schonthal: How to overcome the resistance to your ideas
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We spend a lot of our professional days trying to sell ideas to colleagues or clients, don't we? We may not like the idea of selling but that's exactly what we're doing. It might for support for an initiative or investment in a project - from a Board, Exco, or external investor. We'd like to think that do it well - describing its features, explaini…
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Rita McGrath: Getting out to the edges to develop strategy
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What does it take for a leader to think strategically? You’d hope you didn’t need to ask this question as it should be a core capability. It’s often not as they focus on workplace culture or commercial tactics, both of which are important too. But it’s critical to a clear view as to where the organisation needs to move towards, whom it should serve…
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Peter Fisk: How to recode yourself to leap forward
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An inspirational leader often creates a leap forward in the positioning, performance and profile of the organisation. They’ve been bold enough to look at a situation with new lenses - customer, outsider, new employee. They look for stimulus in the margins, listening carefully to new voices and those who are at the margins. And then they have the co…
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Francesca Gino: How to encourage curiosity and rebel talent
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How do you respond to a world that feels more complex, and uncertain? Put your head in the sand, do the same, peddle faster, hoping it goes away? As silly as that sounds, many executives and professionals do this even while they talk eloquently about their context. A better approach is to double down on your curiosity. At work this means being more…
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James Bryce: Becoming a more articulate, confident speaker at work and in life
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In a job interview, a presentation at work, or a difficult conversation with your team leader; are you getting your message across? Communication skills are not just for public speaking. They are how you express yourself anywhere, to anyone. How can you speak clearly, confidently, yet still as your authentic self? That's the topic of my conversatio…
