The Inner Chief is a leadership podcast for managers and leaders who want to accelerate their career and build high performing teams. Every episode is dedicated to helping leaders rise above the pressure of work to establish a more meaningful career and life. Through a series of CEO interviews and minisodes, listeners are guided through practical leadership strategies, executive performance habits, career tips and business advice. https://www.chiefmaker.com/connect
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“Your brand or your reputation is what people say about you when you're not in the room.” Chief, today we are going to guide you through the process of mastering the art of influencing stakeholders and partners, such that it catapults you forward (and upwards!) in your career. Stakeholders have a huge impact - negatively and positively - on your ca…
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Mini Chief: Mike Schneider, Managing Director of Bunnings on the 4Hs of authentic leadership [Best of Series]
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“For me, the four H's were a very simple way of outlining what I stood for as a leader.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. This Mini Chief episode features Mike…
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348. Zaklina Craig, Chief People Officer of Business NSW, on optimising role design for peak performance, managing differences in confidence between men and women, and navigating the decision to fire someone ...
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“You're a business leader first, and a HR professional second.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Zaklina Craig of Business NSW, on optimising role design for peak performance, managing differences in confidence between men and women, and navigating the decision to fire someone. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/348 👂 EQUIP YOUR MIDDLE MANAGER…
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Mini Chief: Carolyn Creswell, Founder and MD of Carman’s Kitchen, on how to hire and fire people, and difficult conversations
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“The biggest thing a leader can bring to the business is the responsibility to put the right people on the bus. And when it's time for someone to hop off the bus, to have the bravery to say that there's a reason that they need to hop off the bus.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. The…
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347. Mike Schneider, Managing Director of Bunnings on career diversity, genuine empathy, and the 4Hs of authenticity [Best of Series]
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“The danger for CEOs is to allow yourself to be surrounded by people who tell you how good your ideas are. You actually need a balance of people who tell you when you’ve got something wrong or if you could have handled something in a different way.” In this Best of Series episode, we replay a chat we had in 2019 with Mike Schneider, the Managing Di…
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346. CEO Masterclass with Carolyn Creswell, Founder and MD of Carman’s Kitchen, on how to fire people, doing what you love, understanding menopause and having genuine work-life balance
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“The biggest thing a leader can bring to the business is the responsibility to put the right people on the bus. And to have the bravery to say that there's a reason that they need to hop off the bus.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Carolyn Creswell, Founder and MD of Carman’s Kitchen, on how to fire people gracefully, doing …
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“Your direct reports actually want you to provide a clear framework and guidance, and then get out of their way so they can do the job you're paying them to do.” Chief, today we complete our Think Like a CEO Series, and we’re going to look at how great chiefs work on the business, not in the business. As you move up the ranks, your role increasingl…
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“All the best leaders of change I've noticed, bring their people with them.” Chief, today we continue with Part 4 of our Think like a CEO Series, and we’re going to cover how to overcome resistance to change. This is one of the most difficult and stressful parts of running a business. Getting people on the train, keeping them inspired and creative,…
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“Correctly diagnosing your people’s performance issues will mean you enjoy the benefits of watching your people grow and thrive, and they will never forget that you did that for them.” Chief, today we continue with Part 3 of our How to think like a CEO Series, and we’re going to look at how to build confidence in your people. I believe that one of …
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Mini Chief: America’s #1 LinkedIn Coach, Ted Prodromou, on perception and standing out online
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“They're thinking I must be really famous and know what I’m doing, but I'm just laughing because I wrote 20% of the content I'm sharing and 80% I'm sharing other people's.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get …
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“A strong track record earns you a network. As a result, you get called upon straight away to solve a problem and that is the power of having a great network with ambassadors.” Chief, today we continue with Part 2 of our How to think like a CEO Series. And we’re going to cover something that is 100% linked to your ability to get promoted faster, an…
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“A positive brand can mean opportunities for promotion. It can mean a lack of resistance when you're trying to get results, and an endless list of positive outcomes for you and your family.” Chief, today we are kicking off Part 1 of our How to think like a CEO Series. And we’re going to cover something that is one of the most crucial elements to ca…
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340. America’s #1 LinkedIn Coach, Ted Prodromou, on perception, connecting properly with purpose, and standing out online [Best of Series]
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“83% of people will look at your LinkedIn profile now before they take a meeting with you.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Ted Prodromou, America’s #1 LinkedIn Coach, on perception, connecting properly with purpose, and standing out online. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/340 👂 DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER GUIDE FOR SENIOR LEAD…
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“I define speak-up culture as an environment in which members of a team feel that it is both psychologically safe and worth it to raise ideas, as long as it’s to make things better.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, wher…
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“Without these 3 strategies, your peers will start saying things about you like you’ve hit a glass ceiling or you’ve gone as far as you can. And you absolutely do not want that, Chief.” Chief, in today’s minisode, I’m going to discuss three incredibly powerful tactics that you need to implement immediately when working in a leadership role. As a ma…
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Mini Chief: Leading with passion and empowering your people, with Cliff Gale, former MD of Lite ‘n Easy
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“The soul of the business was maintained because I drove the culture of the business so passionately.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. This Mini Chief epi…
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338. Stephen Shedletzky, on how to foster a speak-up culture where people feel safe, trusted and worthy
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“Know that if you are a leader, you have an impact on the health and wellbeing of the people around you. That's why leadership is either a life-depleting or life-feeding line of work.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Stephen “Shed” Shedletzky, on how to foster a speak-up culture where people feel safe, trusted and worthy. 🎧👉 …
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337. Leading with passion, respect for your people and keeping the soul alive in your business, with Cliff Gale, former Managing Director of Lite n’ Easy for over 20 years [Best of Series]
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“There's been too much focus on profit outcomes in business rather than maybe building the process along the way through empowering people, through effective delegation.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Cliff Gale, former Managing Director of Lite n’ Easy for over 20 years, on leading with passion, respect for …
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“The truth is, these 5 traits are disappointingly quite uncommon amongst leadership teams, but if you follow them, you will be closer to outsmarting the competition.” Chief, in today’s minisode, I’m going to discuss five leadership lessons from a powerhouse executive team with whom I have worked for around five years. Having played just a small par…
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Mini Chief: Taking VR/AR learning to new frontiers with Angus Stevens, Co-Founder and CEO of Start Beyond
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“There's no faster way to learn than to do. And the beauty of VR is that it allows you to learn through experience without the physical or emotional risk.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute …
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“One of the great pitfalls is that we just throw them in the deep end and assume they're going to swim. And when they fail, we say, oh well, they just weren’t up to it.” Chief, in today’s minisode and YouTube video, I’m going to dive into some reasons for why so many people struggle with the shift from a technical, hands-on role into a leadership r…
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Mini Chief: Pulling off creative business deals with no money down with Roland Frasier, CEO of All Channels Media [Best of Series]
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“If you can simulate a problem by removing all of the normal, easy, well-travelled roads, then you're forcing yourself to be truly creative in getting to the end result." This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a …
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334. Taking learning by experience to new frontiers, putting guardrails on innovation, and creating useful technology for tangible real-world problems, with Angus Stevens, Co-Founder and CEO of Start Beyond ...
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“There's no faster way to learn than to do. And the beauty of VR is that it allows you to learn through experience without the physical or emotional risk.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Angus Stevens, Co-Founder and CEO of Start Beyond on taking learning by experience to new frontiers, putting guardrails on innovation, and …
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“My mother has this wonderful saying: Tell the time, don't build the clock. Many of us are clock builders when we communicate, but if we can structure our messages to be concise and clear, we can be much better communicators in any situation.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These a…
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333. Pulling off creative business deals with no money down, and modelling your mentors, with Roland Frasier, CEO of All Channels Media [Best of Series]
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“I believe that everything that you want to accomplish can be accomplished with mentoring, modelling and masterminding.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Roland Frasier, CEO of All Channels Media, on pulling off creative business deals with no money down, and modelling your mentors. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/333 👂 DOWNL…
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Mini Chief: Juliette Wright OAM, Founder & Director of GIVIT and Recovere, on revolutionising misguided charitable giving, having a million conversations
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“I just want to make sure the right people get the right things in the right way. And I also want to make sure that people like you and me could have a direct impact on a disaster event that's happening overseas." This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights fro…
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332. Matt Abrahams, author of ‘Think Faster, Talk Smarter’ on managing your reputation before you enter a room, thinking on your feet, and getting to the point
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“My mother has this wonderful saying: Tell the time, don't build the clock. Many of us are clock builders when we communicate, but if we can structure our messages to be concise and clear, we can be much better communicators in any situation.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Matt Abrahams, author of ‘Think Faster, Talk Smarte…
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Mini Chief: Bringing values to life with the Group CEO of Nuix, Jonathan Rubinsztein [Best of Series]
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“If you say honesty is a core value, are you kidding me? Do you want people working in your organisation that are dishonest? That doesn't make sense!” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snaps…
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“What do I do with a group of leaders who have risen up through functional roles and are now really struggling to work on the business and to be strategic? It's causing a fair amount of chaos and tension across the group.” Chief, in today’s minisode and YouTube video, I’m going to cover the exact strategies you need to use in order to get your lead…
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330. Juliette Wright OAM, Founder and Director of GIVIT and Recovere, on revolutionising misguided charitable giving, having a million conversations, and leaning into anxiety
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“You are best defined by what you say no to.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Juliette Wright OAM, Founder and Director of GIVIT and Recovere, on revolutionising misguided charitable giving, having a million conversations, and leaning into anxiety. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/330 👂 DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER GUIDE FOR SENIOR LEADERS ON H…
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“My mantra is first you build it, then you buy it. Finding product-market fit with a startup is by far the hardest thing in the world, but when you buy a company, you probably skip that.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests,…
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329. Bringing values to life, compressing time, and the 3 key principles of motivation, with the Group CEO of Nuix, Jonathan Rubinsztein [Best of Series]
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“Often the people you speak to are in the same industry and that creates an echo chamber. If you don’t have communication with people outside your industry, you're going to be someone else's lunch or dinner in this crazy world of disruption.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Group CEO of Nuix, Jonathan Rubinszte…
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328. Why unhappiness is a requirement for entrepreneurialism, switching seats from CEO to Chair, and buying versus building a business with Joel Holland, CEO of Harvest Hosts
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“I feel that if you understand finance and economics, you understand how most of the world works.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Joel Holland, CEO of Harvest Hosts on why unhappiness is a requirement for entrepreneurialism, switching seats from CEO to Chair, and buying versus building a business. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/328 👂 GET…
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Mini Chief: Gold medallist and 5-time Olympian, Natalie Cook OAM OLY, on building an ecosystem to support elite athletes achieve their dreams
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“We're trying to ease the financial pain for the next generation in the green and gold.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. This Mini Chief episode features …
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“Sometimes you've got to save them from themselves and have some really honest, heart-to-heart conversations about their role.” Chief, in today’s minisode and YouTube video, I’m going to cover a little problem that has come up repeatedly over the last few years and that is right person, wrong role. This is when you have a great employee in your sta…
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Mini Chief: Golf master Coach, Steve Bann, on how to find the actual root cause of a problem [Best of Series]
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“Our job as a coach is to find out why the swing has changed, because the only way you can fix it is by identifying the real bottleneck, the real constraint. But without being reactive.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, …
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326. Gold medallist and 5-time Olympian, Natalie Cook OAM OLY, on how to out-think the opposition, and why it takes an ecosystem to win a gold medal
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“Amateurs do it until they get it right; professionals do it until they can't get it wrong.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Natalie Cook OAM OLY on how to out-think the competition, and why it takes an ecosystem to win a gold medal. 🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/326 👂 DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER GUIDE FOR SENIOR LEADERS ON HOW TO HAVE DIFF…
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Mini Chief: The art of decision-making like a ninja…with Nuala Walsh, Founder & CEO of MindEquity and author of Tune In
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“Decision friction is when you deliberately interrupt your thoughts before forming a judgement. You adopt a series of prompts or questions that are like a speed bump for your mind if you’re in a hot state.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our f…
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325. Golf master Coach, Steve Bann, on working with the world’s best golfers, turning practice into confidence, and the improvement lifecycle [Best of Series]
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“We see Tiger Woods get angry and throw clubs, but when he does something he’s done a million times, like hole a 6-foot putt, he gets super excited and dances across the green pumping his fist. Why? He's emotionally anchoring that success.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Golf master Coach, Steve Bann, on worki…
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Mini Chief: Being fired from his own company…with Jeremy Hastings, Founder & Managing Director of both Hutly and Bondable
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“Yeah, it was brutal, a very, very difficult period of my life. I’d hired a lot of people who didn't have technology experience. What I actually did was I set them and the business up for failure.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous C…
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“Are you or someone else owning the developmental pathway for your career?” Chief, in today’s minisode I’m going to cover how to choose the right course that will significantly boost your career. In today’s busy world, there are just so many options, so it’s incredibly hard to know how to sift out the bad options from the good ones. And then, to co…
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323. The art of decision-making like a ninja, and learning to control your emotions and recognise your biases, with Nuala Walsh, Founder & CEO of MindEquity and author of "Tune In"
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“We live in this highly overstimulated world, people are rushing to judgement more than ever, people are feeling unheard, and the reality is, they are unheard, because we can't hear them, because we're too busy, too distracted.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Nuala Walsh, Founder & CEO of MindEquity and author of “Tune In”, …
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“It includes self-reflection as that's not often talked about. Each person should think about their worldview and how it’s been shaped, and how it affects the way they act and behave.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, wh…
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322. Being fired from his own company and successfully returning to transform the real estate industry after working on his inner chief, with Jeremy Hastings, Founder & Managing Director of both Hutly ...
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“Yeah, it was brutal, a very, very difficult period of my life. I’d hired a lot of people who didn't have technology experience. What I actually did was I set them and the business up for failure.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Jeremy Hastings, Founder & Managing Director of both Hutly and Bondable, on being fired from his …
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Mini Chief: Taking on Nike with an aggressive and cheeky marketing campaign…and winning…with Jaimie Fuller, Former CEO of SKINS
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“I knew I was going to be sued by Nike, but I did my research and I knew that they couldn't just come and sue me, they had to issue you a cease and desist.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute…
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321. The CEO-Chairperson relationship and overcoming the drivers of conflict: Best of Series with Isabelle Nüssli, author of the book, “Cockfighting”
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“When you start paying attention in a handshake, it actually tells you something about the general openness and willingness to trust, even momentarily.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Isabelle Nüssli, author of the book, “Cockfighting” on the CEO-Chairperson relationship and overcoming the drivers of conflict.…
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Mini Chief: Why scenario modelling is the best accelerated learning tool, with Dr Lia DiBello Ph.D
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“The reason you want to build a model is because people have all these assumptions that aren't actually true.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. In this edi…
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“By removing 20% of meetings that suck 80% of your energy and attention, you get 20% of your time back immediately, but you also remove 80% of the stuff that's draining you.” In today’s minisode, I’m going to cover my top 3 tips for beating overwhelm and burnout. Life is fast and it will flash by if you don’t take control of your calendar, whether …
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Mini Chief: How to avoid PR disasters like Bud Light while still supporting causes that are important to you, with the CEO of Havas Red Australia, Shane Russell
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“People just want to hear the truth and just want to be talked to as humans by brands.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. This Mini Chief episode features t…
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319. Jaimie Fuller, Former CEO of SKINS and now Chair of eo, on unlocking the secrets of the world’s greatest athletes and teams
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“I knew I was going to be sued by Nike, but I did my research and I knew that they couldn't just come and sue me, they had to issue a cease and desist.” In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Jaimie Fuller, Founder and former CEO of SKINS and now Chair of eo, on unlocking the secrets of the world’s greatest athletes and teams, copin…
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