60 Episodes

  1. 20: Measure It. Measure What? (Strategy IV)

    Published: 5/11/2021

  2. 19: Fear In Leadership

    Published: 4/22/2021

  3. 18: Buy Customers, or Bye Bye Customers?

    Published: 4/6/2021

  4. 17: Strategy III Execution

    Published: 3/23/2021

  5. 16: Leading With Purpose with Jim Kirkwood of TTC

    Published: 3/9/2021

  6. 15: 168 Hours. What effective leaders do.

    Published: 2/23/2021

  7. 14: What Is Strategy? Part 2

    Published: 2/9/2021

  8. 13: Can Sport Teach Business?

    Published: 1/28/2021

  9. 12: What is Strategy?

    Published: 1/12/2021

  10. 11: Books Books Books 2020

    Published: 12/30/2020

  11. 10: Lazy Leadership

    Published: 12/17/2020

  12. 9: Culture Defining Moments with Luke Fisher of Mo

    Published: 12/1/2020

  13. 8: Dream or Dream Team?

    Published: 11/17/2020

  14. 7: Marketing - What Is It? With Grant Leboff

    Published: 11/3/2020

  15. 6: Failure Is Not An Option

    Published: 10/27/2020

  16. 5: Under Pressure or Naked Ambition

    Published: 10/1/2020

  17. 4: Peacetime CEO Wartime CEO

    Published: 9/15/2020

  18. 3: Leadership Begins at the Edge of Your Comfort Zone

    Published: 9/1/2020

  19. 2: No Grit, No Pearl

    Published: 7/7/2020

  20. 1: Gritty Leader?

    Published: 7/3/2020

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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..."