Truth, Lies & Work

# effectiveness

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22:55Truth or Lie: Extroverts make more effective leadersLeanne Elliott: Keep that in Al Elliott: Welcome back to Truth or Lie. It's that time of the week where we take a popular workplace idea and ask Leanne if the research actually backs it up. Fun fact, it's not always LeanEP 294 · 21 Apr 2026·truth or lie· 22:55–42:1232:10Do wellness initiatives actually work?Leanne Elliott: I want to ask you a bit more about your career, Sarah, if I can. And before I do, I noticed on your Twitter or X or whatever it's called now, that you described yourself as a sometimes annoying woman SaraEP 195 · 8 May 2025·interview· 32:10–32:2539:15Self-awareness: the key to effective leadershipJohn Amaechi OBE: If we could mandate self-awareness, many of the problems would dissipate or be more easily managed. Great harm is done to other human beings by people who don't know themselves. Even greater harm is donEP 82 · 14 Mar 2024·interview· 39:15–42:209:20Is resilience training a complete waste of time?Al Elliott: So what we're saying is that resilience training is just a complete waste of time? Bruce Daisley: We look for resilience in the wrong place. We've looked for resilience as this individual trait, this almost lEP 78 · 20 Feb 2024·interview· 9:20–13:247:14When culture fit does work — and when it doesn'tAl Elliott: Okay, so if someone's listening to this and thinking, shit, this is the way that I recruit at the moment based on culture fit, then what should they be doing differently? How do they pivot and transition to pEP 04 · 19 Jul 2022·other· 7:14–8:10

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