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Episode 175 - Re-Release Of Building Effective Teams - Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing

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Episode 174 - Influencer #30 - Xi Xingping Part 2 : Power, Strategy and the Cost of Control

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Episode 173 - Influencer #30 - Xi Jinping Part 1 - Power, Strategy and the Making of Modern China

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Episode 172 - Potholes, Politics and Broken Businesses : The Beginners Guide To Systems Thinking

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Episode 171 - The Leadership Revolution and the Death of Empathy

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Episode 170 - When Your Boss Is the Problem : Navigating Bad Leadership Without Breaking Your Career

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Episode 169 - Influencer #29 - Shackleton : The Leader Who Redefined Failure

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Episode 168 - The Second in Command : The Leader Behind the Leader Part 2

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Episode 167 - The Second in Command : The Leader Behind the Leader Part 1

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Episode 166 - Tactics Are Not Strategy : Lessons from Iran

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Episode 165 - When Ordinary People Do Extraordinary Things - With Felicty Ashley Atlantic Rower, Cancer Survivor and Everest Marathon Runner

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Episode 164 - Influencers #28 - Malcom McClean and The Box That Built the World

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Episode 163 - The UK Government's Top Secret War Book : The Idiot's Guide For What To Do In Case Of Apocalypse - Part 2

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Episode 162 - The UK Government's Top Secret War Book : The Idiot's Guide For What To Do In Case Of Apocalypse - Part 1

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Episode 161 - Pressure Is the Point : What UK Special Forces Can Teach Leaders About Performance with Simon Jeffries

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Episode 160 - BHAGs and 3HAGs Re-Release : Turning Vision into Action

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Episode 159 - Influencers #15 Re-Release - Niccolò Machiavelli - Power and Principle in an Age of Strongmen

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Episode 158 - Leadership and Management in an AI Powered World - Part 3

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Episode 157 - Leadership and Management in an AI Powered World - Part 2

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Episode 156 - Leadership and Management in an AI Powered World - Part 1

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Episode 155 - Influencers #27 - Elizabeth Holmes - How Selling the Dream Became Selling Bullshit

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Episode 154 - A Semi Emergency Podcast on Venezuela, Leadership, Culture and the Future of NATO!

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Episode 153 - Royal Marine, Yeoman Warder and Arctic Explorer : Baz Gray The Most Interesting Man In The World - Part 2

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Episode 152 - Royal Marine, Yeoman Warder and Arctic Explorer : Baz Gray The Most Interesting Man In The World - Part 1

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Episode 151 - Influencer #7 Re-Release - Charles De Gaulle Loyal Only to France - Part 2

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Episode 150 - Influencer #7 Re-Release - Charles De Gaulle: Loyal Only to France - Part 1

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Episode 149 - War in the Smartphone Age : Why Leaders Must Rethink Everything They Think They Know

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Episode 148 - Iterate or Lose : Innovation Lessons from NATO’s Front Line

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Episode 147 - Inside The War Game : Red Teaming A Crisis

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Episode 146 - Influencer #26 - The Nelson Touch : Leadership, Myth, and Mastery

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Episode 145 - Re-Release of Episode 126, Leading with Pride – LGBT+ Inclusion in the Armed Forces with Commander Roly Woods RN

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Episode 144 - The Leader’s Equation : Data vs Intuition

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Episode 143 - Shifting Ground: Finding Purpose and Leadership in Times of Change

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Episode 142 - Rerelease of Episode 8 - Adaptive teams and Pirates

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Episode 141 - Influencers #25 - Richard Branson - The Cult of Cool and How He Made Business Fun

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Episode 140 - Red Teaming : Stress Testing Leadership and Strategy

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Episode 139 - The Military Planning Combat Estimate - 7 questions that will change your business - Part 2

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Episode 138 - The Military Planning Combat Estimate - 7 questions that will change your business - Part 1

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Episode 137 - Influencers #24 - Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Episode 136 - Rerelease of episode 6 - What are Command, Leadership & Management?

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Episode 135 - The Philosophy of Leadership with Professor Damian O'Doherty: Lounges, Bureaucracy, and the Myth of the Hero

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Episode 134 - Rerelease of Episode 7 - What is Strategy?

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Episode 133 - Influencers #23 - Mary Parker Follett : The Forgotten Founder of Modern Leadership:

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Episode 130 - The power and value of board games with Lt Col Mike Harvey

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Episode 132 - Rerelease of episode 2 - Mission, Purpose, Vision & Goals

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Episode 131 - Inside High Performing Teams - Lisa Lloyd on the Psychology of Great Leadership

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Episode 129 - Influencers #23 - Arthur Tedder – The Quiet Architect of Victory

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Episode 128 - Developing Leaders in the Royal Air Force with the Tedder Leadership Academy - Part 2

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Episode 127 - Developing Leaders in the Royal Air Force with the Tedder Leadership Academy - Part 1

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Episode 126 - Leading with Pride – LGBT+ Inclusion in the Armed Forces with Commander Roly Woods

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Episode 125 - Influencers #21 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Episode 124 - Lessons in systems thinking from the Battle of the Bulge

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Episode 123 - The Jeep Show, keeping up morale in the Battle of the Bulge

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Episode 122 - Power, Politics and Strategy: Navigating Leadership in a Shifting Landscape

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Episode 121 - Beyond the Water Cooler: Military Mindsets, Mission Command and Managing Uncertainty - Interview with psychologist Dr Lisa Lloyd

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Episode 120 - Influencers 21 - Stalin: Influence, Leadership and Legacy Part 2

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Episode 119 - Influencers 21 - Stalin: Influence, Leadership, and Legacy Part 1

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Episode 118 - What comes next? Transitioning from the military with Oliver Lee

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Episode 117 - The True Virtues - Integrity and Moral Courage with Col Oliver Lee - Part I

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Episode 116 - Clipboard Heroes and Villains - The power and tyranny of Bureaucracy

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Episode 115 - Influencers #20 President Donald J Trump part II

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Episode 114 - Influencers #20 - President Donald J Trump

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Episode 110 - Influencers #19 - The Polish Resistance fighter known as Zo

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Episode 113 - What can we learn about optimising teams from a Royal Marines Commando Sniper part 2

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Episode 112 - What can we learn about optimising teams from a Royal Marines Commando Sniper part 1

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Episode 111 -  Trump, NATO, and the Future of Global Leadership

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Episode 109 - Just stop trying to be better

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Episode 108 - Influencers#18 - Amelia Earhart

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Episode 107 - Crisis Management part 2 - Dealing with a Crisis in the moment

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Episode 106 - Crisis Management Part 1 - Preparing for the Unknown

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Episode 105 How to say no and when to say no more

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Episode 103 - The Wisdom of the Bullfrog - Leadership Insights from Admiral Bill McRaven

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Episode 102 - Influencers #17 Winston Churchill Part 2

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Episode 101 - Inflencers #17 Winston Chruchill

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Episode 100 - Organisational Maturity, Business Growth Challenges, and Navigating Change

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Episode 99 - Do you need to be more like a start-up? The organisational Life Cycle Episode 1

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Episode 98 - Ends, Ways & Means - a framework for working out what to do

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Episode 97 - What is focus and how do we do it?

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Episode 96 - Influencers #16 Gene Kranz & Jim Lovell, leading Apollo 13

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Episode 95 - Halloween special part II - Frankenstein's monster continues

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Episode 94 - Halloween Special - building Dr Frankensteins leadership monster - Part 1

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Episode 93 - A chat with Royal Marine turned actor, Tip Cullen

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Episode 92 - Influencers #15 - Niccolò Machiavelli, good or bad?

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Episode 91 - Setting good habits - Reflective practice and building resilience with Keith Reesby

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Episode 89 - Leaders and stress management - act now before it too late!

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Episode 90 - Measurement and risk management with Doug Hubbard

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Episode 88 - Complexity, OODA Loops and Large Language Models with Ben Ford at Mission Ctrl

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Episode 87 - Influencers 14 - Margaret Thatcher

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Episode 86 - Leadership and stress management

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Episode 85 - Building Effective Teams - Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing

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Episode 84 - Rerelease of Personal Narratives; what they are and why you need to own yours

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Episode 83 - Rerelease of Influencers #2 Leonard Cheshire

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Episode 82 - Rerelease of Why people do bad things with Waitman Beorn

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Episode 81 - Rerelease of How to be a fighter Pilot with Paul Tremelling

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Episode 80 - Exploring Colditz Castle, Leadership and Culture in unusual circumstances

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Episode 79 - General Election Special - Political Leadership

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Episode 78 - Operation Crossbow, V2 rockets and, a road trip to Peenemunde

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Episode 77 - Influencers #13 - Mahatma Gandhi

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Episode 76 - Leadership philosophies, what are they and why might you need one.

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Episode 75 - Toxic Leadership and the dark triad