“A manager once told me to stop trying to be so perfect; instead, get it 80% right, and we'll work out the rest, because otherwise you'll never do anything.”   In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to the Managing Director of SAP Concur ANZ, Fabian Calle, on being agile in a large corporate, leading as an introvert, and the career skills obtained from martial arts. 🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/315  👂   DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER OPERATING RHYTHM HOW TO GUIDE AND PUT YOUR VISION AND...

“I'm an advocate of not getting splinters in my bum or sitting on a fence. Make hard choices, make them now, rip the BandAid off.”   In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature the Chief Growth Officer of ACS (Australian Computer Society), Siobhan O’Sullivan, on customer experience, looking at yourself in the mirror and accelerating your career. 🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/314  👂 REGISTER INTEREST FOR THE NEXT MINI-MBA INTAKE: chiefmaker.com/minimba I interviewed...

I love the Churchill quote, “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. What matters is the courage to go on.”   In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to world-renowned hotel developer, Rory Hunter, on spearheading the build-to-rent movement towards sustainability, seeking solitude and healing on the ocean, and the adventure of a lifetime after buying an island in his twenties.   🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/313  👂   DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER OPERATING RHYTHM HOW TO GUIDE AND PUT...

“In the second half of life, you shift from focusing on serving the self to focusing on serving family and community. That's what it means to be a true Chief, to be beyond self.”   In today’s minisode, I give to you my top 15 lessons and learnings from this year. And what a year it’s been! This year we passed 300 episodes, and we passed six years as a business with Chief Maker.  And what I like to do at the end of every year is sit back and reflect and ask myself some questions. One...

“People believe that the voice they have is the voice they were born with, and it's not true. They were born with an instrument and they have to learn how to play it.”   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest guest is Roger Love, The World’s #1 Celebrity Voice Coach. His full episode is...

“People believe that the voice they have is the voice they were born with, and it's not true. They were born with an instrument and they have to learn how to play it.”   In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to the World’s #1 Celebrity Voice Coach, Roger Love, the man who taught Bradley Cooper, Reece Witherspoon, The Beach Boys and more to use their voice to change the world.   🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/311  👂   DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER OPERATING RHYTHM HOW TO GUIDE AND PUT YOUR...

“It's not about starting up, it's about staying up.”   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest episode is from our Best of Series with the Co-Founder of The Real Estate Stylist, Sara Chamberlain. Her full episode is titled Being a rebel, becoming unemployable, and knowing your business...

“It's not about starting up, it's about staying up.” In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Co-Founder of The Real Estate Stylist, Sara Chamberlain, on being a rebel, becoming unemployable, and knowing your business inside-out.   🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/310  👂 REGISTER INTEREST FOR THE NEXT MINI-MBA INTAKE: chiefmaker.com/minimba   I interviewed Sara for this podcast in September 2018. A serial entrepreneur, Sara has been in business for 20 years, launching...

“I am grateful for everything I have. But for me, feeling lucky is a lot more animated and holds a lot more curiosity and open-mindedness to opportunity and possibility.”   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest guest is Mark John, Founder & CEO of frntlne. His full episode is titled...

“The big online course providers have got about a 5 to 9% completion rate. Attention spans are really low. No-one's got 20 minutes for a course anymore, but they've probably got 20 seconds.”   In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Mark John, Founder & CEO of frntlne, on partnering with the world’s top performers and business people, what a leader’s natural state is, and feeling lucky every day.   🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/309  👂   DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER OPERATING RHYTHM...

“I used to believe that fitness wasn't part of my work day; nowadays, if I do a workout five times a week and it costs me five hours, that's work hours.”   In today’s minisode, I’m going to cover executive health, executive fitness and why you should treat it as part of your daily working life, as opposed to something additional. If anything, Chief, you should fit your working life around your health, and not the other way around.   🎧👉 chiefmaker.com/308 👂 GET THE FREE CHIEF MAKER TOP 30...

“I started Share the Dignity because somebody bloody had to do it. And it was just something that should never have been around.” This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest guest is Rochelle Courtenay, the Founder & Managing Director of Share The Dignity. Her full episode is titled Leading...

“Dream like you're gonna live forever, but live like you're gonna die tomorrow.”   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest episode is from our Best of Series with CEO of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin. His full episode is titled Playing the long game and living a life by design not default and...

“I started Share the Dignity because somebody bloody had to do it. And it was just something that should never have been around.”   In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to the wonderful Rochelle Courtenay, the Founder & Managing Director of Share The Dignity, on leading volunteer armies, witnessing female trauma inside prison, and eradicating period poverty. 🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/307  👂   DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER OPERATING RHYTHM HOW TO GUIDE AND PUT YOUR VISION AND...

“Dream like you're gonna live forever, but live like you're gonna die tomorrow.”   In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature CEO of KnowHow Property, Bushy Martin, on playing the long game and living a life by design not default. 🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/306  👂   REGISTER INTEREST FOR THE NEXT MINI-MBA INTAKE: chiefmaker.com/minimba   I interviewed Bushy for this podcast in September 2018. An architect by trade, Bushy is the founder of KnowHow Property. His team...

“All you have to do is make it better, do different things and the world's at your feet. The funny thing is, we're the only ones who thought of doing this and that surprised the heck out of me."   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest guest is Geoff Bell, CEO of MicroBioGen. His full episode...

“All you have to do is make it better, do different things and the world's at your feet. The funny thing is, we're the only ones who thought of doing this and that surprised the heck out of me." In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Geoff Bell, the CEO of MicroBioGen, on how a stockbroker became a biotech success story, using patience as a competitive advantage, and why exercise is his best thinking time. 🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/305  👂   DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER OPERATING...

“The really successful companies will be the ones that realise that they can't set a bunch of policies at a company level and think it's going to work for everybody; rather, they will have highly personalised employee experiences." This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest guest is the CEO of The...

“You nail your mission, vision, values, strategy and tactics, and you will get unity, spirit, meaning, inspiration, direction, alignment and results. And that is a high performance team!” In today’s minisode, I’m going to cover some key business terminology and how they not only link together, but why it is so important to have these clearly articulated and operationalised into your business. If you do them wrong, it can be really detrimental to your organisation, your team, and even your...

“The really successful companies will be the ones that realise that they can't set a bunch of policies at a company level and think it's going to work for everybody; rather, they will have highly personalised employee experiences." In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to Kath Blackham, CEO of The VERSA Group, on extracting huge value from diversity and inclusion, mental health in the workplace and using tech for good. 🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/303  👂 DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER GUIDE...

“Don't try to teach your salespeople to sell the way that you do; no-one is ever going to sell the way that you do, because they don't have your DNA, they don't have the drive that caused you to push through whatever you had to push through.”   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest episode is...

“Don't try to teach your salespeople to sell the way that you do; no-one is ever going to sell the way that you do, because they don't have your DNA, they don't have the drive that caused you to push through whatever you had to push through.”   In this Best of Series episode of The Inner Chief podcast, we feature Co-Founder and CEO of Better Sales Coach, Dean Mannix, on overcoming your limitations to design and live a bigger life and selling like the best in the world. 🎧👉 ...

“Through acquisition, you can acquire competitors that you can integrate into your business and eliminate duplicative areas, which can give you far greater profit."   This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous CEO guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode. Our latest guest is Billionaire business guru, Jay Abraham. His full episode is titled How to...

“Through acquisition, you can acquire competitors that you can integrate into your business and eliminate duplicative areas, which can give you far greater profit." In this episode of The Inner Chief podcast, I speak to business guru, Jay Abraham, on how to achieve business wealth without risk through acquisition and the most powerful marketing strategies in the world. 🎧👉  chiefmaker.com/301  👂 DOWNLOAD THE CHIEF MAKER GUIDE FOR SENIOR LEADERS ON HOW TO HAVE DIFFICULT PERFORMANCE...

“One trait amongst elite Chiefs is they just get back on the horse every day. No matter what's happened the day before, they just keep turning up and delivering.”   In today’s minisode I am going to share with you something that perhaps we haven't spoken about as much on the show previously, and these are the 5 Mindsets of elite CEOs and Chiefs. What’s important to know is that these 5 Mindsets are not necessarily demonstrated all of the time by our great leaders; we're not pretending as...