Latest Business psychology Podcast Episodes

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Focusing on Strengths - Sally Bibb

Leadership 2.0 - July 13, 2024 17:00 - 43 minutes
'I defy anybody to be energized by most appraisal systems I have seen in my career' - Sally Bibb Most HR professionals and line managers (present company included!) are used to focusing on the 'development areas' of their staff. The idea is to take the areas of strength for granted and to activ...

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How to ensure successful Leadership Transitions - Michael Watkins

Leadership 2.0 - June 15, 2024 22:00 - 51 minutes
Any questions or comments? Press this link and send me a message! The statistics are sobering, not only do 49% of external executive hires end in failure within 18 months, but internal moves prove to be challenging as well. For instance, 40% of internal job moves involving high potentials also ...

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How to ensure successful leadership transitions - Michael Watkins

Leadership 2.0 - June 15, 2024 22:00 - 51 minutes
The statistics are sobering, not only do 49% of external executive hires end in failure within 18 months, but internal moves prove to be challenging as well. For instance, 40% of internal job moves involving high potentials also end in failure. Besides the fact that these failures often have a t...

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Henry Mintzberg - Understanding Organizations...Finally

Leadership 2.0 - May 25, 2024 18:00 - 32 minutes
‘We live in a world of organizations - and we do not understand them’ This is one of the statements Henry Mintzberg, one of the leading thinkers in the field of Management, made when I interviewed him for my Leadership 2.0 Podcast about his latest book ‘Understanding Organizations…Finally'. D...

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'The advantages and limitations of intuition in decision-making' - Eugene Sadler-Smith

Leadership 2.0 - May 04, 2024 08:00 - 43 minutes
Any questions or comments? Press this link and send me a message! In this episode, I am interviewing Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith of the Surrey Business School about the role of intuition in decision-making processes. During our conversation, we discussed the following topics: 1 What intuiti...

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'Using your intuition' - Eugene Sadler-Smith

Leadership 2.0 - May 04, 2024 08:00 - 43 minutes
In this episode, I am interviewing Professor Eugene Sadler-Smith of the Surrey Business School about the role of intuition in decision-making processes. During our conversation, we discussed the following topics: 1 What intuition is and what it is not 2 The two types of intuition 3 Adopting an...

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Scenario Thinking and Leadership - Jeremy Bentham

Leadership 2.0 - April 14, 2024 13:00 - 57 minutes
Scenario thinking enables organizations to establish possible visions of the future in the form of scenarios. This enables decision-makers to think through the different ways in which the environment of their institutions could evolve in the future, based on different sets of assumptions. One of...

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From Crisis to Innovation: A Mental Health Entrepreneur's Journey - Vlad Gheorghiu

Leadership 2.0 - March 10, 2024 16:00 - 27 minutes
In this episode, I am interviewing Vlad Gheorghiu about mental health in the workplace, a highly relevant topic. Why?  The World Health Organization estimates that 12 billion working days are lost every year due to depression and anxiety. This costs $1 trillion in lost productivity. McKinsey ...

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Hubristic Leadership - Eugene Sadler-Smith

Leadership 2.0 - February 09, 2024 14:00 - 45 minutes
In this episode, I am interviewing Eugene Sadler-Smith about hubristic leadership. A highly relevant topic in the light of the corporate scandals we faced in the last two decades, as well as the current geo-political tensions we are seeing around us.  None of these would have happened without h...

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A Scientific Perspective on Leadership Development - Ayse Yemiscigil

Leadership 2.0 - January 14, 2024 14:00 - 29 minutes
Everyone is an expert in leadership development, or at least has an option about it!  For this reason, I decided to interview Professor Ayse Yemiscigil. Ayse Yemiscigil, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business and a Researc...

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The Five-Factor Personality Model and the Numinous - Interview Ralph Piedmont

Leadership 2.0 - October 14, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour
Current thinking in Psychology is that there are five dimensions we can use to describe the most important personality dimensions. Dr. Ralph Piedmont discovered the 6th one: 'the Numinous'. The five-factor model of personality (FFM) is a set of five broad trait dimensions or domains, often refe...

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The Five-Factor Personality Model and the Numinous - Ralph Piedmont

Leadership 2.0 - October 14, 2023 20:00 - 1 hour
Current thinking in Psychology is that there are five dimensions we can use to describe the most important personality dimensions. Dr. Ralph Piedmont discovered the 6th one: 'the Numinous'. The five-factor model of personality (FFM) is a set of five broad trait dimensions or domains, often refe...

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Leadership & Reputation Management - Matt Nixon

Leadership 2.0 - September 30, 2023 07:00 - 46 minutes
'The real problem of humanity is the following: we have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology'.  With this quote from Edward O. Wilson,  Matt Nixon answered my question if our requirements about leadership have changed in the last decades.  Matt Nixon has more th...

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Change Management : Creating Deep & Sustainable Behavioral Change - Arend Ardon

Leadership 2.0 - September 17, 2023 06:00 - 46 minutes
In this episode of the Leadership 2.0 podcast, I am interviewing Arend Ardon about how leaders can create deep, and sustainable behavioral change in their organizations. Arend Ardon (1967) is a management consultant and co-founder and co-owner of the Change Studio, a consultancy firm specializi...

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Unleash the power of neurodiversity in the workplace! - An interview with Saskia Schepers

Leadership 2.0 - September 01, 2023 13:00 - 43 minutes
In this episode, I am interviewing Saskia Schepers about unleashing the power of neurodiversity in the workplace. Saskia Schepers studied organizational science and works as a creative brain, consultant, project manager, speaker, trainer, and coach. She recently wrote a book titled ‘Als alle b...

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The why and how of corporate ethics - An interview with John Hollwitz

Leadership 2.0 - June 30, 2023 12:00 - 43 minutes
John Hollwitz is a University Professor of psychology and rhetoric. Before coming to Fordham, he was the A.F. Jacobson Professor of Communications at Creighton University and dean of arts and sciences at Loyola College in Maryland. He also has been the vice president of academic affairs at Fordh...

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The why and how of corporate ethics - John Hollwitz

Leadership 2.0 - June 30, 2023 12:00 - 43 minutes
John Hollwitz is a University Professor of psychology and rhetoric. Before coming to Fordham, he was the A.F. Jacobson Professor of Communications at Creighton University and dean of arts and sciences at Loyola College in Maryland. He also has been the vice president of academic affairs at Fordh...

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Developing compassionate leaders in service of a flourishing world - Sophia Town

Leadership 2.0 - May 30, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes
Sophia Town, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Gabelli School of Business. As a qualitative researcher, Dr. Town explores how leaders can cultivate both knowledge and wisdom in service of individual, organizational, and societal flourishing.  During our conversa...

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Developing compassionate leaders in service of a flourishing world - An interview with Sophia Town

Leadership 2.0 - May 30, 2023 08:00 - 46 minutes
Sophia Town, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of organizational behavior at the Gabelli School of Business. As a qualitative researcher, Dr. Town explores how leaders can cultivate both knowledge and wisdom in service of individual, organizational, and societal flourishing.  During our conversa...

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Jungian Analytical Psychology in the workplace - An interview with Murray Stein

Leadership 2.0 - May 01, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour
I am a big proponent of the work of Carl Jung and the business world could benefit from his insights. Therefore, I was pleased to have the opportunity to talk to Murray Stein about applying Jungian Analytical Psychology in the workplace.  Interestingly enough we met on labor day, something Jung...

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Jungian Analytical Psychology in the workplace - Murray Stein

Leadership 2.0 - May 01, 2023 19:00 - 1 hour
I am a big proponent of the work of Carl Jung and the business world could benefit from his insights. Therefore, I was pleased to have the opportunity to talk to Murray Stein about applying Jungian Analytical Psychology in the workplace.  Interestingly enough we met on labor day, something Jung...

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Is it about you or your mission?

Leadership 2.0 - March 26, 2023 08:00 - 6 minutes
Focusing on who we want to be, means opting for a position and choosing a course of action that brings us closer to the position we aspire to have. Focusing on doing means that we let our course of action be determined by what we consider to be intrinsically important. If we compare the differen...

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Stop adding value! Why micromanagement is a bad idea and what you can do about it

Leadership 2.0 - March 25, 2023 10:00 - 6 minutes
One of the big temptations we as leaders face is our urge to add value to the work of our staff.  Although this is tempting, it is a bad idea, both for our staff, as well as for ourselves. I use my personal 7-2-1 rule to combat my temptation. What do you use?

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How much ambiguity costs can your business afford?

Leadership 2.0 - March 02, 2023 21:00 - 12 minutes
Leaders often tell their employees that they need to learn to deal with ambiguity. This is a polite way of saying that their behaviors need to compensate for shortcomings in the way decision-making processes in the organization are structured. This sounds great but comes at a cost...

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Organization design matters! How much ambiguity costs can your business afford?

Leadership 2.0 - March 02, 2023 21:00 - 10 minutes
Leaders often tell their employees that they need to learn to deal with ambiguity. This is a polite way of saying that their behaviors need to compensate for shortcomings in the way decision-making processes in the organization are structured. This sounds great but comes at a cost...

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How to engrain ethics in your corporate culture?

Leadership 2.0 - March 12, 2022 13:00 - 7 minutes
Almost any sizeable company nowadays has a code of ethics. The main catalyst for this were the corporate scandals in the early 2000s (Enron, Worldcom, Tyco, and others), and in the last couple of years having a sense of purpose has become pretty much en vogue. As a result, every year millions o...

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How should you translate professional integrity in commercial reality? I=QxA!

Leadership 2.0 - February 26, 2022 15:00 - 4 minutes
I always felt sorry for the many famous artists in the Renaissance, who needed to compromise the quality of their work and their artistic integrity, in order to make sure their art suited the requirements of their patrons. This challenge is not uncommon to the one management consultants and oth...

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Why leaders should not be doing the work of their teams

Leadership 2.0 - December 14, 2021 12:00 - 7 minutes
For a variety of reasons, a number of line managers frequently want to do the work of their direct reports. However tempting this might be, doing the work of your team is rarely a good idea, neither for you as a line manager, nor for your team.  In the world of professional soccer, you are eith...

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Talking Leadership in a Future World of Work

Talent Matters by PSI - December 02, 2021 08:00 - 21 minutes
Director of Assessment Consulting, Kat Maynard talks to International Director of R&D, Dan Hughes about PSI's latest research report - Leading in the Future World of Work. Dan shares themes emerging from the research that will have far reaching implications for organisations and for leaders. Se...

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Talking Organisational Wellbeing Part 2

Talent Matters by PSI - October 19, 2021 10:55 - 28 minutes
Jill Pennington, Consulting Director of Development at PSI Talent Management returns to speak further with GLWS Co-Founder Audrey McGibbon about wellbeing in organisations, and how organisations can change or implement wellbeing strategies in an authentic way. They both share tips and thoughts ar...

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