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Bitesize Boss — 163 episodes · page 1 of 2
The journey from idea to delivery: We start with Mary Anning and her fossil discoveries
The journey from idea to delivery: Be a reader. Be a thinker. Be a creator.
The journey from idea to delivery: Warren Buffett, the Impressionists, the Suffragettes, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky and pizza
The journey from idea to delivery: Steal ideas. Everyone does it. Just ask the Beatles.
The journey from idea to delivery: Lead, leave, learn, laud - and the inspiring example of Dorothy Vaughan.
The journey from idea to delivery: Schumpeter, Marx, revolutions, and the demise of Kodak
The journey from idea to delivery: Fail, to succeed. Just don't try my cooking.
The journey from idea to delivery: Great creativity comes from conflict. Live with it. Just ask the Beatles in the movie Let It Be.
The journey from idea to delivery: What we learn from Wannabe and the brilliant Spice Girls.
The journey from idea to delivery: Add science to the art of creativity. And change your hairstyle.
The journey from idea to delivery: Find a fixer, like Queen Elizabeth 1 and Premier League managers.
The journey from idea to delivery: Cold shower or warm bath? Both are needed... Both have dangers...
The journey from idea to delivery: Ideas and the culture of creativity need to be embedded. How do we do it?
The journey from idea to delivery: Great empires knew how to celebrate success. That is one reason they lasted so long.
The journey from idea to delivery: Leader as party pooper. Dismantle, rebuild and get better. Like F1.
It's all about culture: Playing to win? Or destined to lose?
It's all about culture: Why I can't grow tomatoes.
It's all about culture: Here's to the wonderful women I worked for at Marks and Spencer
It's all about culture: Authority versus influence and the power of a piece of sandpaper.
It's all about culture: Do the boring documents undermine your values?
It's all about culture: Say it. Say it again. And again. And again.
It's all about culture: St Augustine got this one right. Boris didn't.
It's all about culture: How do you know you've got there?
Be a rebel: Beware the god of technology
Be a rebel: VUCA is old hat. So let's be inspired by the Impressionists.
Be a rebel: von Moltke and Mike Tyson said the same thing about strategic planning.
Be a rebel: Malaria and influenza - and theories we had to change
Be a rebel: What Rick Stein and Aristotle can teach us.
Making decisions: `....stop deliberating and go.'
Making decisions: Read yourself, not just the data
Making decisions: Read the room, not just the data
Making decisions: The language of diplomacy has traditionally been French. Why? And how does that make for better decision-making?
Making decisions: Is it just about the numbers?
Making decisions: You don't make good decisions without....?
Making decisions: What another leader of the free world taught me
Making decisions: it's what you are there for.
Money is mindset: Money management is a team, not just a numbers, thing
Money is mindset: I only know one bank joke
Money is mindset: Johnson and Johnson got it right
Money is mindset: The budget is a story first, then a set of numbers.
The art of silence 3: Jess Phillips MP for Birmingham Yardley talks about taking it for the team
The art of silence 2: Yes, we can learn things from Hannibal Lecter.
The art of silence 1: Be quiet, be attentive, be decisive
Ethics rule OK again! It all comes out. Ask Forrest Gump. Or it goes wrong, and keeps going wrong. Ask Macbeth.
Ethics rule OK again! Why do riots happen?
Ethics rule OK again! The one time The Economist got it wrong
Beware the imposter: The survey
Beware the imposter: The anecdote
Beware the imposter: Disaster
Beware the imposter: Triumph
Managing yourself: Jose Mourinho was sacked...why?
Managing yourself: Ancient Romans and training shoes.
Managing yourself: Don't Google
Managing yourself: The aircraft safety briefing has a metaphor we should all heed
Managing yourself: Belle, from Beauty and the Beast, and McCartney advise us to be wary of the myths they invent about you
Managing yourself: The opening scenes of Mary Poppins help us understand the illusion of control.
Managing yourself: De-clutter. It's good for you and your work colleagues
Managing yourself: Don't do diary, but DO do diary
Managing yourself: Spot the monster and be like Wordsworth
Managing up: Chernobyl and the importance of TMI over TLI
Managing up: Alexander Hamilton and the art of mind-reading
Managing up: Mr Corleone likes to hear bad news immediately
Managing up: Six key questions to discuss with your Chair, inspired by the last words of Casablanca
Managing up: Your Chair's public-facing role - be like the Beach Boys
Managing up: Your relationship with your Chair. With some advice from Margaret Thatcher.
You are no longer you (you are the organisation) 4: Party or meeting, Prime Minister?
You are no longer you (you are the organisation) 3: You now have a megaphone
You are no longer you (you are the organisation) 2: Corporate empathy and the Queen of England
You are no longer you (you are the organisation) 1: Napoleon speaks again
Do less, think more - welcome to politics
Do less, think more - and take advice from King Lear's fool.
Do less, think more - inner circles, and why to avoid them.
Do less, think more - Raymond Blanc versus Masterchef
Do less, think more - it's like conducting an orchestra...
Mr Banks in Mary Poppins got it wrong. We don't have to.
Inclusive leadership is no longer an option.
Keeping great people is not just about paying them more money.
`Don't fear change. Plan for it,' she said. And she was right.
How should leaders adapt to the new challenges of 2022?
Now you're the boss - what can quick drying woodstain teach us?
Now you're the boss - developing the right personal mythology
Now you're the boss - generate good gossip
Now you're the boss - you are the painter, story teller and preacher
Now you're the boss - and what I learned from watching my children ride horses.
Now you're the boss - first encounters
Now you're the boss .... what are you there for? #2
Now you're the boss .... what are you there for? #1
Now you're the boss, life changes for ever
Play chess 7: Your new salary - it's more than just agreeing a number
Play chess 6: Do your research
Play chess 5: Acquaint yourself with the volcano
Play chess 4: Are you lonely tonight?
Play chess 3: What the Spice Girls teach us
Play chess 2: A word from `Die Hard'
Play chess 1: Skates on!
Unhappy talk 4: There's a reason we got bad marks in maths
Unhappy talk 3: Be a sponge
Unhappy talk 2: Don't think...
Unhappy talk 1: Process, process, process
S2 E30: Making meetings work: The day I got married