No Bullsh!t Leadership

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.

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Episodes

Meetings: When to speak, when to listen

Meetings can be a political minefield, and most leaders rely purely on their instinct to get by: which means they get it wrong more often than they realise. This episode cuts through the noise on one of the most deceptively complex leadership skills: knowing when to talk and when to shut up. It sounds simple, but It isn't: and The Economist 's "Babble Hypothesis" proves why getting the balance wrong can derail your career. In this episode, I lay out a practical framework for two meeting scenario...

Jun 30, 2026•19 min•Season 1Ep. 409

Moment 179. Why You Keep Avoiding the Hard Thing

Leadership might be hard, but there’s nothing you can’t master with application and discipline. This is why the toughest challenge is often just convincing yourself to start. In this Moment, I show you exactly how to overcome the comfort of inaction, and push yourself to do the things that will ultimately pay off. I don’t care if you’re an introvert, or if you get anxiety… this is about realising your long-term career ambitions. If you want to really get stuck into the psychology of taking that ...

Jun 28, 2026•5 min

The Real Reason Your Team Moves So Slowly

When we think about high-performing teams, we assume they have superior strategies and top-class talent. But one characteristic we often overlook is pace. And pace doesn’t happen organically: it takes a leader to build momentum into the culture. The best teams have a relentless drive to get things done; a bias for action that cuts through everything they do. A team that has momentum feels entirely different, and once you’ve been on a team like that, everything else will feel second-rate. The pro...

Jun 23, 2026•16 min•Season 1Ep. 408

Moment 178. Team Building Exercises Are Useless!

Team building exercises don’t build teams. Only leadership does. If you’re thinking about investing in time away from the office, think again. These days don’t move the needle on team dynamics, trust, or performance. If you dislike someone before the paintball game, you'll still dislike them after it. So by all means, take your team out for some fun. Just don't mistake it for culture change. For practical tips on how to avoid expensive team building mistakes, have a listen to Ep.170: Epic Team B...

Jun 21, 2026•5 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 ...

Jun 16, 2026•51 min•Season 1Ep. 407

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...

Jun 14, 2026•4 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 deal...

Jun 09, 2026•38 min•Season 1Ep. 406

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