The Nonsense Dialogues
Episodes
14 episodes
Why do people believe such obvious bullsh1t?
Sorry for the delay between episodes but Randal and I have just been freed from an El Salvadorian prison after Border Security found episodes of the Nonsense Dialogues in our phones. This experience may have influenced the topic of this podcast...
Have we actually learned anything new about leadership in the past 4000 years?
In a world increasingly looking backwards (Make Leadership Great Again!)1, Randal and David thought perhaps they too should look way back for inspiration. So they invited l...
Power is a team not an individual sport
How to become more powerful and successful using the power of others.That was going to be our shamelessly clickbait title for this episode but the Olympics are currently on and we thought we'd instead piggyback on everyone's excitement ...
Resilience racket or corporate calm? What works when building resilience, psychological health and well-being in the workplace.
Resilience racket or corporate calm? What works when building resilience, psychological health and well-being in the workplace.In this episode David and Randal share their microphones with Diya Dey, an organisational psychologist and le...
We need to speak about Elon
Following from our previous episode on Bad Leaders, we look for lessons in leadership from the case study of Citizen Musk. David takes a psychologist’s perspective and examines if Elon’s self reported Autism Spectrum Disorder and his apparent n...
Bad Leaders - what can we learn from them?
In this episode we take a positive approach to discussing leadership development by considering what can we learn about good leadership from bad leaders. And also, can bad leaders grow into good ones? Elon is mentioned. But will it be as ...
Episode 7 Prof Mark Williams - a Neuroscientist's view on psychometrics and leadership
We are very pleased to welcome Prof Mark Williams to the Nonsense Dialogues. ...
Episode 6 Is Mindfulness in the workplace snake oil, helpful or a distraction?
Randal has a lingering suspicion about anything that reminds him of cults, mysticism or good old fashioned snake oil. What has been attracting his sceptical attention of late are the various claims made by the proponents of Mindfulness for impr...
The Nostalgia Episode
Where Randal and David unfurl their inner Boomer and look fondly back on how leaders used to develop before those horrid consultants came along and ruined everything. Was leadership development much better in the past...
Episode 4B Leadership Development that works better than all that stuff we've been criticising.
In episode 4 part A we talked shite about leadership development practices and in this next episode, part 4B, we explore what we think effective leadership development programs should do to be actually effective in developing leadership for res...
Episode 4A Is there a better way to develop leaders (than the same old rubbish everyone else has been doing)?
In this episode we take a look at the effectiveness of leadership development programs and question if they are truly worth the time and money organisations spend on them. David reviews his possibly wasted career in leadersh...
Episode 3 Are leadership development courses a waste of time?
In which we explore the very lucrative business of Leadership Development. We initially look to distinguish leader development from leadership development but soon wander through a series of increasingly discursive topics including: