Management Today's Leadership Lessons
Management Today's Leadership Lessons podcast is aimed at entertaining, educating and inspiring people to be better leaders.
The podcast delves into the world of leadership and management, bringing fresh insights, trends and advice to the ears of busy senior leaders.
We interview CEOs, founders, authors, executive coaches, business professors and other experts to discover the real secrets to effective leadership.
We also provide crucial insight into some of the biggest business stories of the day to help you stay ahead of the curve.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 25 minutes
- Episodes
- 104
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Julian Birkinshaw: 'Established companies are way more resilient than people give them credit for'
American author F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote that: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to …
AI’s impact on professional services and getting employees comfortable with change
On this week’s episode, MT’s editorial team discusses the impact of AI on professional services and the role of psychological safety in business transformation.
Is AI coming for your job? If you’re a …
CBI CEO: “We’re backing UK businesses to ensure they’ve got what they need to invest and grow”
In 2023, the CBI became embroiled in a well-documented sexual misconduct crisis, which saw the exodus of a number of its member companies. Two years on, and with its former chief economist Rain Newto…
Leading transformation and obstacles to women’s career progression in professional services
In this week’s episode, we discuss how to elevate your business transformation abilities and the obstacles to women’s career progression in professional services.
Ever heard of a ‘wicked problem’? Ide…
Bloom & Wild CFO: Sometimes you need to ‘reframe kindness’
Bloom & Wild's tagline is ‘care wildly’ - a message that could also be an apt description of the leadership ethos conveyed by CFO Dominique Highfield, who became the letterbox flower brand’s first fi…
Boosting business optimism and the perils of groupthink
On this week’s episode of The Debrief, MT’s editorial team discusses what can be done to boost business optimism and how groupthink can sabotage your transformation agenda.
If the first quarter’s GDP …
Samsung's first CCO on helping consumers save energy and time
Samsung is putting people at the very heart of its new company proposition. Under the direction of its first-ever chief customer officer, Deborah Honig, the company is evolving from creating standalo…
Human-AI hybrid workforces and what ChatGPT thinks of your brand
On this week’s episode, MT’s editorial team discusses what chatbots think of your brand and how humans and AI agents might work together in the future.
The traditional customer journey largely consist…
How BT Sourced is reinventing the procurement process
It’s 5pm on a Friday and you’re still in the office. In just two short hours, the CEO is scheduled to have dinner with a major supplier. This meeting is not merely a social occasion, but a strategic …
Selling a business and securing employee buy-in for your AI strategy
On this week’s episode of The Debrief, MT’s editorial team discusses how to get employees behind your AI transformation and the six steps you need to nail when selling a business.
When orchestrating …
Interbrand CEO Gonzalo Brujo’s steps to M&A success
2025 has so far been a year of high profile M&A deals, But Trump’s trade war, armed conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and, on a more local scale, the UK’s various trade agreements with…
AI avatars and the impact of cheap imports on British businesses
On this week’s episode, MT’s editorial team discusses the pros and cons of AI avatars and whether our consumption habits are hurting British business.
Swiss-based bank UBS is using AI to create avatar…
How not to fail at innovation
“Any idea you can think of for a new product, I guarantee you that somewhere in the world there’s six other people thinking of the same thing.”
If those words from L.E.K. Consulting vice chair Stuart …
Confronting the threat of cyberattacks and expanding internationally
On this week’s episode, MT’s editorial team discusses whether businesses are burying their heads in the sand when it comes to cybercrime and some common traps that risk undermining your international…
Lyndsey Simpson on redefining what it means to grow older in the workplace
In 2019, the Center for Aging Better predicted that by 2025 there will be one million more people aged 50 and over, and 300,000 fewer people aged 30 and under, in the workplace, with one in three of …
Corporate sustainability strategies and cutting supply chain costs
On today’s episode, we discuss whether businesses are backtracking on their environmental commitments and Boston Consulting Group’s tips for cutting supply chain costs.
Despite media reports of corpo…
Rule of three: the CEO of Hitachi Vantara’s formula for staying focused
“We as humans can remember three things,” says Sheila Rohra, CEO of Hitachi Vantara. It is this rule of three, then, that is central to her formula for “staying focused”, as well as her approach to d…
Unilever’s new chief exec and how to achieve growth in a sluggish economy
On this week’s episode of The Debrief, MT’s editorial team discusses Unilever’s recent CEO change and how to keep driving your business forward even in unfavourable market conditions.
The ousting of H…
Wavemaker UK’s CEO and COO on how ‘dual leadership’ helped them spearhead a turnaround
Business wins and losses are part of life for a media agency, but sometimes the losses can start to outpace the wins and – for whatever reason – negative momentum takes hold.
This was the difficult ba…
Reeves’ first Spring Statement and disruptive AI innovations
On this week’s episode of The Debrief, MT’s editorial team dissects the Spring Statement and takes a look at some of the AI-driven innovations that are disrupting industries.
It’s the economy, stupid…