No Bullsh!t Leadership

Hosted by Martin G Moore

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No Bullsh!t Leadership is a podcast for leaders who want to become truly exceptional. Each week, your host, Wall Street Journal Bestselling author Martin G Moore, shares the secrets of high performance leadership; the career accelerators that you can’t learn in business school, and your boss is unlikely to share with you. Step away from the theoretical view on leadership, and learn from a successful CEO who’s already walked the path. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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June 16, 202651 min

AI for Leaders in 2026: Promoted or Replaced?

Have you ever sat in a meeting about AI, nodded along, then thought, "I've got no idea what they're talking about, and I'm meant to be leading this"? If so, you're in good company.In this episode, I chat with Em and AI expert James Killick to answer the question every leader is quietly asking. In 2026, does AI get you promoted, or replaced?Here's the truth. AI isn't coming for leaders. It's coming for the leaders who live in the detail and do the work of the people below them. Your job hasn't changed since the Industrial Revolution. Take your people, your tools, and your budget, and turn them into something valuable.In this episode:Why AI replaces the technical work, not the leadership work, and who that puts at riskThe "automate last" rule, and why 9 in 10 AI projects failHow to treat AI like an over-enthusiastic intern, so your judgement matters more, not lessThe one mindset shift: lead AI inward, lead people outwardWhat to hand to AI first, and the 20% only you can doThe window is open right now. Move first and you get ahead. Sit still and you get left behind.Leadership Beyond the Theory June cohort is open. Doors close Friday 26 June. Join now: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/————————Connect with James:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ai_orchestrator/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-killick/YouTube + Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/@james-killickJoin his FREE Skool community: https://www.skool.com/make-money-with-aiGet training or his DFY AI services: njin.co————————You can connect with me at:Website: https://www.yourceomentor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentorLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor————————Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. Your boss wants more with less. Your team wants less, full stop. You're stuck in the middle.Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks to promotion-ready leadership. 2,800+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Doors are now open for the June 2026 cohort, they close Fri 26 June!Join the cohort here: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

June 14, 20264 min

Moment 177. Stop Disempowering Your People!

Virtually every leader likes to talk about empowering their team. But if you were to ask 10 of them what empowerment actually means, you’d get 11 different answers. Over the years, the concept of empowerment has been dumbed down to make it vague and aspirational. True empowerment is neither of those things. It's a core driver of performance, and in this Moment, I give you my number one tip for not accidentally killing it.For practical tips on effectively empowering your people, have a listen to Ep.374: The Biggest Killer of Empowerment————————You can connect with me at:Website: https://www.yourceomentor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentorLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor————————Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. Your boss wants more with less. Your team wants less, full stop. You're stuck in the middle.Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks to promotion-ready leadership. 2,800+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Doors are now open for the June 2026 cohort, they close Fri 26 June!Join the cohort here: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

June 9, 202637 min

Dealing With an Employee You “Can't” Fire: 2 questions every leader needs to ask

Talented jerks and people who game the system just need to go. The value they bring through their technical skill is massively outweighed by the damage they do to the rest of the team.You can't motivate them. You can't inspire them. You can't lift them. So stop trying!Because while you hold onto the person destroying your culture, your good people are quietly working out that there's an easier way to earn a living somewhere else.In this Q&A episode we cover:The two-question rule for dealing with someone who's too good to lose but too toxic to keep Why PIPs, pay rises, and pep talks keep failing on the same person, and the one thing that actually shifts the behaviourHow to hold a subcontractor accountable without the accountability sliding straight back onto youThe trap of being a control freak when the work goes remote, and the fixHow to manage a system gamer in a place where performance management is almost impossible to pull offWhy redundancy and performance management are not the same thingThe move to make before you act on any problem person, so the real problem in the building never becomes youIf you liked this format, leave a comment on the episode and let us know!————————Is your team performing at the standard it should be?✨ Join Marty and Em for The Mid-Year Leadership Reset — a free 2-hour live workshop to stop the drift before the second half of the year gets away from you.You'll walk away with three practical frameworks to reset your standard, rebuild accountability, and build a team that doesn't need you for everything.Thursday 11 June · 10am–12pm AEST · FreeSECURE YOUR FREE SPOT HERE————————You can connect with me at:Website: https://www.yourceomentor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentorLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor————————Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. Your boss wants more with less. Your team wants less, full stop. You're stuck in the middle.Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks to promotion-ready leadership. 2,800+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Doors are now open for the June 2026 cohort, they close Fri 26 June!Join the cohort here: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

June 7, 20264 min

Moment 176. Don't Lose Your Most Talented People!

Your best people know they have plenty of options, so if they don’t feel the work they’re doing is valuable, challenging, and impactful, it doesn't matter how much you pay them. In this Moment, I give you 5 things you need to do to keep them.For practical tips on how to hold onto your talent, have a listen to Ep.101: Keeping the Ones You’ve Got————————Is your team performing at the standard it should be?✨ Join Marty and Em for The Mid-Year Leadership Reset — a free 2-hour live workshop to stop the drift before the second half of the year gets away from you.You'll walk away with three practical frameworks to reset your standard, rebuild accountability, and build a team that doesn't need you for everything.Thursday 11 June · 10am–12pm AEST · FreeSECURE YOUR FREE SPOT HERE————————You can connect with me at:Website: https://www.yourceomentor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentorLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor————————Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. Your boss wants more with less. Your team wants less, full stop. You're stuck in the middle.Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks to promotion-ready leadership. 2,800+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Doors are now open for the June 2026 cohort, they close Fri 26 June!Join the cohort here: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

June 2, 202617 min

Nailing Your Formal Performance Review

Most leaders DREAD the formal performance review; because they don’t prepare and they don’t know what to expect. Today I go deep on how to control the dialogue, so that your review becomes a career accelerator, rather than a spirited defense of your failings.Let’s face it: you know your performance hasn’t been perfect, so it’s easy to agonise over how your boss might evaluate you.This makes it tempting to just throw yourself at your boss’s mercy, and plead for leniency, hoping the good will outweigh the not-so-good.But if you manage this conversation well, it will reinforce your value, and shape how the organisation sees your future. In this episode, I give you a practical framework for nailing your formal review. From KPIs to performance standards, I show you how to read the room before you walk in, and how to build a case to support your performance evaluation. I also show you how to take advantage of an opportunity that almost everyone leaves on the table.Links mentioned in this episode:No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes:No Bullsh!t LeadershipWikipedia link:The Peter PrincipleLBT link:Leadership Beyond the Theory————————Is your team performing at the standard it should be?✨ Join Marty and Em for The Mid-Year Leadership Reset — a free 2-hour live workshop to stop the drift before the second half of the year gets away from you.You'll walk away with three practical frameworks to reset your standard, rebuild accountability, and build a team that doesn't need you for everything.Thursday 11 June · 10am–12pm AEST · FreeSECURE YOUR FREE SPOT HERE————————You can connect with me at:Website: https://www.yourceomentor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentorLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor————————Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. Your boss wants more with less. Your team wants less, full stop. You're stuck in the middle.Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks to promotion-ready leadership. 2,800+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Doors are now open for the June 2026 cohort, they close Fri 26 June!Join the cohort here: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 31, 20264 min

Moment 175. Don’t Let Weakness Ruin Your Empathy

Empathy is a critical leadership capability: without it, you’ll never get the best out of your people. But if you’re not strong enough to hold the standard, that empathy will blow up in your face. Empathy builds trust; sympathy destroys performance.For practical tips on how to stay out of the sympathy zone, have a listen to Ep.135: When Empathy Becomes Sympathy————————Have you taken our free Leadership Blindspot test?✨ In just 5 minutes you’ll uncover the hidden leadership habits holding you back.Get your Blindspot Score and know exactly what to fix before it costs your career!TAKE THE FREE TEST HERE————————You can connect with me at:Website: https://www.yourceomentor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentorLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor————————Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. Your boss wants more with less. Your team wants less, full stop. You're stuck in the middle.Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks to promotion-ready leadership. 2,800+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Doors are now open for the June 2026 cohort, they close Fri 26 June!Join the cohort here: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 26, 202620 min

8 Surprising Ways to Reduce Unwanted Turnover

Most leaders think high turnover is a retention problem. But it’s not; it's a leadership problem. And the fix is the exact opposite of what most leaders do.Staff turnover is still widely misunderstood. And most leaders operate from a place of fear, responding to it defensively.They tiptoe around their people, lower the standards, and tolerate poor performance so they don't rock the boat. But, ironically, this is the worst thing you could possibly do for your retention problem. In this episode I give you my views on how to frame the turnover problem; I look at an article from Harvard Business Review that confirms what great leaders have always known. And I give you a practical framework that you can implement: four things to stop doing and four things to start doing.Links mentioned in this episode:No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes:Ep.27: Unleashing the Power of Your PeopleEp.355: The New Rules for High Performing TeamsHarvard Business Review article:Surprising Ways to Reduce Turnover in High-Pressure, High-Skill JobsSupporting research:Operational Overload: The Impact of Workload on High-Skilled Workforce AttritionWikipedia link:Yerkes-Dodson LawNurse Org article:Nursing Demand His New HIghLBT link:Leadership Beyond the Theory————————Have you taken our free Leadership Blindspot test?✨ In just 5 minutes you’ll uncover the hidden leadership habits holding you back.Get your Blindspot Score and know exactly what to fix before it costs your career!TAKE THE FREE TEST HERE————————You can connect with me at:Website: https://www.yourceomentor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentorLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor————————Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. Your boss wants more with less. Your team wants less, full stop. You're stuck in the middle.Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks to promotion-ready leadership. 2,800+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Doors are now open for the June 2026 cohort, they close Fri 26 June!Join the cohort here: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 24, 20264 min

Moment 174. Want to Lift Performance? Manage Better!

If you think great leaders don't need to be great managers, you've probably got a blindspot…and it's costing you more than you know.To lift performance, you have to put desirable leadership attributes aside, and learn to manage better.To access my 6 key levers of execution excellence, have a listen to Ep.371: How I learned to Produce Exceptional Results————————Have you taken our free Leadership Blindspot test?✨ In just 5 minutes you’ll uncover the hidden leadership habits holding you back.Get your Blindspot Score and know exactly what to fix before it costs your career!TAKE THE FREE TEST HERE————————You can connect with me at:Website: https://www.yourceomentor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentorLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor————————Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. Your boss wants more with less. Your team wants less, full stop. You're stuck in the middle.Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks to promotion-ready leadership. 2,800+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Doors are now open for the June 2026 cohort, they close Fri 26 June!Join the cohort here: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 19, 202619 min

Don't Be Sucked In By Player-Coach Leadership!

When CEOs cut management layers, they often kid themselves that they're building leaner, faster companies. But what they're actually doing is destroying accountability and weakening performance. Hiding behind fads like player-coach leadership can’t change that fact.The tech sector loves a management fad and over the years, they’ve tried them all. But the unquestioning adoption (and eventual discarding) of these management trends doesn’t seem to discourage them from trying the next one that comes along.In this episode, I pull this apart from a few different angles. I look at the fundamental misconceptions that drive fads like player-coach leadership; I bring you a view from an industry insider; and I give you a practical list of the 5 questions you should ask before you get sucked into the next manager-free fad.Source Material:No Bullsh!t Leadership episodes:Ep.396: How Many Direct Reports is Too Many?Business Insider article:The Most Layoff-Prone JobsFortune article:Coinbase Replaced Managers With Player-CoachesLinkedIn profile:Alek LipskiLBT link:Leadership Beyond the Theory————————Have you taken our free Leadership Blindspot test?✨ In just 5 minutes you’ll uncover the hidden leadership habits holding you back.Get your Blindspot Score and know exactly what to fix before it costs your career!TAKE THE FREE TEST HERE————————You can connect with me at:Website: https://www.yourceomentor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentorLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor————————Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. Your boss wants more with less. Your team wants less, full stop. You're stuck in the middle.Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks to promotion-ready leadership. 2,800+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Doors are now open for the June 2026 cohort, they close Fri 26 June!Join the cohort here: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

May 17, 20265 min

Moment 173. Why the Participation Trophy is Killing Your Team

In business, it’s an indisputable fact that stronger competition results in better outcomes for everyone. Why are we so reluctant, then, to increase competitive pressure within our teams?One of the most critical performance levers of leadership is differentiation between people; and creating a merit-based, competitive environment within your team benefits every stakeholder… especially your people. If you want to go deeper on how to increase healthy competition in your team, have a listen to Ep.179: Survival of the Fittest————————Have you taken our free Leadership Blindspot test?✨ In just 5 minutes you’ll uncover the hidden leadership habits holding you back.Get your Blindspot Score and know exactly what to fix before it costs your career!TAKE THE FREE TEST HERE————————You can connect with me at:Website: https://www.yourceomentor.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/yourceomentorInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/yourceomentorLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-moore-075b001/Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@YourCEOMentor————————Our mission here at Your CEO Mentor is to improve the quality of leaders, globally. Your boss wants more with less. Your team wants less, full stop. You're stuck in the middle.Leadership Beyond the Theory is 9 weeks to promotion-ready leadership. 2,800+ leaders from 150+ organisations. 99% would recommend. Doors are now open for the June 2026 cohort, they close Fri 26 June!Join the cohort here: https://go.leadershipbeyondthetheory.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.