60 Episodes

  1. Shorts: Failing Before Winning

    Published: 3/16/2023

  2. Shorts: Your ‘Stop-Doing’ List

    Published: 3/14/2023

  3. Shorts: Working with Multiple Strategies

    Published: 3/9/2023

  4. Shorts: Your Hidden Strategies

    Published: 3/7/2023

  5. Shorts: Becoming a Gritty Leader

    Published: 3/2/2023

  6. Shorts: Tactics for Building Employee Engagement with Luke Fisher of Mo

    Published: 2/28/2023

  7. 34: Leading Through Core Values interview with Peldon Rose CEO Jitesh Patel

    Published: 1/12/2023

  8. 33: Hiring & Firing: part 2

    Published: 12/17/2021

  9. 32: Creating A Challenge Culture with Nigel Travis

    Published: 11/26/2021

  10. 31: Hiring & Firing: Part 1

    Published: 11/2/2021

  11. 30: B Corps, Better Business and Happiness with Hannah Cox

    Published: 10/12/2021

  12. 29: Accountability or Bust

    Published: 9/21/2021

  13. 28: No Bullsh!t Leadership with Martin G Moore

    Published: 8/31/2021

  14. 27: The Leadership Challenge (Kouzes & Posner)

    Published: 8/24/2021

  15. 26: Why Change Fails

    Published: 8/3/2021

  16. 25: The One-on-One (Meetings miniseries #2)

    Published: 7/20/2021

  17. 24: The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team - Lencioni's Classic

    Published: 7/6/2021

  18. 23: Leadership: Nurture or Nature?

    Published: 6/22/2021

  19. 22: Meetings: The Good, Bad & Ugly

    Published: 6/8/2021

  20. 21: Nightmare Team / Dream Team

    Published: 5/25/2021

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Leaders are pulled in all directions. There is no rule book. Beginning with 'No Grit No Pearl' each episode of the Gritty Leaders podcast explores a tension or paradox of leadership asking how founders, entrepreneurs and scale-up CEOs decide which way to turn. Published fortnightly, each Gritty Leaders episode: o Is for leaders in start-up and scale-up growing companies o Asks directly about the tough decisions of leadership: strategy to tactics; the rough and the smooth o Tells real stories of leadership grit to get 'inside' leadership o Tests leadership ideas and theories in today's business front line o Wraps up by drawing Gritty Leadership Lessons from what's been said Ben and Ian are regularly joined by guests. Founders and leaders of growing companies weigh-in to discuss the Gritty Leadership Question of the episode and tell their personal stories, "I learned about gritty leadership from..."