This is Real Leadership

IESE Business School
This is Real Leadership

This is real leadership. We love business but not buzzwords. We think the best companies are more human. And we want to improve leadership everywhere. So our podcast is different. Because it's not about toolkits or influencers. It’s about real people and real talk. It’s about practical insight from world-class thinkers with proven knowledge and experience.  Every episode, a business leader shares human stories and hard truths from their career. And an expert turns those stories into lessons we can all learn. Bright ideas and sound strategies that really work. Delivered by the people who learned them. Explained by the world-class professors at IESE, one of the world’s best business schools. This is real leadership. In each episode... From entrepreneurs to organisational theorists, old hands to cool heads, our guests have proven experience and a story to tell.   They’ll be telling it to Adam Burns, who’s been writing and talking about business for over 25 years, and a distinguished professor from IESE, one of the world’s best business schools – ranked number 1 in the world for six years running by the Financial Times. Then the professors offer their expert analysis of the conversation, uncovering and explaining real leadership lessons in plain language. No buzzwords. This is real leadership.  — Click for more Real Leadership content This is real leadership is a SIM7 podcast for IESE Business School. It is hosted by Adam Burns and produced by John England. Voiceover provided by Eliza Perry.  

Episodes

  1. 12/19/2023

    How to fail right. With Professors Sandra Sieber and Sebastian Reiche

    In this special episode, we look back at some of the most human stories and the hardest truths from series one of This is Real Leadership. From how you ask a co-founder to leave, to one reason Steve Jobs was so successful, we’ve been finding out what real leadership looks like today. And it’s all here – the wow-yeah and the heck-no. Looking back across our previous seven episodes are two distinguished commentators. Sandra Sieber is Professor of Entrepreneurship at IESE Business School, one of the world’s best business schools. Sebastian Reiche is Professor of Managing People in Organisations at IESE Business School. IESE was ranked No.1 in the world for six years running by the Financial Times. In this episode, Sandra and Sebastian discuss: How to fail right. (01:48)Is leadership as easy as pie? Or Pi? (05:25)How to tell better stories and build stronger business cultures (13:58)What really is real leadership today? (27:10) Featuring quotes from: Ibukun Awosika – Former Chair, First Bank of Nigeria. NED, Cadbury Plc. One of the original dragons on the African version of Dragon’s Den, author, fellow of the African Leadership Initiative and Aspen Global Leadership Network, and Forbes “Chairperson of the Year” award winner 2020. Geoffrey Moore – Advisor to the leaders of established high-tech enterprises. Most recently: Salesforce, Microsoft, and Google. And the author of several best-selling and hugely influential business books. Most notably: Crossing The Chasm. Elena Betés Novoa – Founder and CEO (2008-15) and Chair (2015-22), Rastreator. CEO, dide.org. Serial entrepreneur. Winner of the International Women’s Entrepreneurial Challenge award in 2022. Forbes “Top 100 Most Creative”.  JJ Van Oosten – A serial digital transformationist, JJ has lead five large, complex and successful digital and omnichannel transformations at Rewe Group, Tesco, Travis Perkins, LEGO and Kingfisher.  Christina Janzer – Head of Research and Analytics, Slack. Armed with insights from Slack’s global knowledge worker research – a survey of 10,000 desk workers – Christina says she wants to make work a little better every day. Arjen Schouten – Co-founder and Former COO cosmetics retailer Rituals, Arjen helped Rituals grow from zero to over 10,000 employees, 1000 stores and $1 billion in turnover. Florian Weiss – Former CEO, Jameda, one of the largest providers of software for the healthcare industry. Click IESE.edu/real-leadership/ for more Real Leadership content Want to keep up to date with the latest podcasts, leadership and career trends - subscribe to our newsletter. Connect with Professor Sandra Sieber  Connect with Professor Sebastian Reiche Email the podcast

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This is real leadership. We love business but not buzzwords. We think the best companies are more human. And we want to improve leadership everywhere. So our podcast is different. Because it's not about toolkits or influencers. It’s about real people and real talk. It’s about practical insight from world-class thinkers with proven knowledge and experience.  Every episode, a business leader shares human stories and hard truths from their career. And an expert turns those stories into lessons we can all learn. Bright ideas and sound strategies that really work. Delivered by the people who learned them. Explained by the world-class professors at IESE, one of the world’s best business schools. This is real leadership. In each episode... From entrepreneurs to organisational theorists, old hands to cool heads, our guests have proven experience and a story to tell.   They’ll be telling it to Adam Burns, who’s been writing and talking about business for over 25 years, and a distinguished professor from IESE, one of the world’s best business schools – ranked number 1 in the world for six years running by the Financial Times. Then the professors offer their expert analysis of the conversation, uncovering and explaining real leadership lessons in plain language. No buzzwords. This is real leadership.  — Click for more Real Leadership content This is real leadership is a SIM7 podcast for IESE Business School. It is hosted by Adam Burns and produced by John England. Voiceover provided by Eliza Perry.  

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