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14:19Why short-form video is bad for learning and memoryLeanne Elliott: Or if it was like a difficult management conversation, it might be like that. Al Elliott: Yes. So you can act it out. Leanne Elliott: TikTok style.EP 320 · 21 Jul 2026·news roundup· 14:19–17:0019:47Is CQ something you have or something you learn?midroll (Phil Agnew, Nudge): Yeah Polly Collingridge: Okay. Oh, okay. You know, it's not really the rest of the team that has issues, it's actually me. I need to work on myself. And so it's all about, you know, whatever EP LIVE-2026-06-19 · 19 Jun 2026·interview· 19:47–31:4935:36Slow down to speed up and the deep learning periodAl Elliott: So let's just quickly talk about your acquisitions, because if I've understood this, then you are essentially taking 2 companies and folding them into Blade Air. That doesn't sound like it's going to be partiEP 295 · 23 Apr 2026·interview· 35:36–43:2830:59Getting hands-on: how Andrew decided where to experimentLeanne Elliott: And you got quite hands-on for this series, experimenting with AI yourself. How did you decide where to test it in terms of the tasks that you have? And is there anything that you found it particularly brEP 277 · 19 Feb 2026·interview· 30:59–35:285:22The School of Dumbassery — what the word actually meansAl Elliott: Let's start with the School of Dumbassery. I believe it's not just a random word, dumbass. I believe there's some meaning behind it. Tell us more about the School of Dumbassery and what it means Garry Ridge: EP 251 · 20 Nov 2025·interview· 5:22–7:5025:51Psychological safety and learning moments vs. blameGarry Ridge: It can Garry Ridge: I am Al Elliott: Go and listen to Lunch wherever you get your podcastsEP 251 · 20 Nov 2025·interview· 25:51–32:5637:52The power of reverse mentoringAl Elliott: You talked in your book about reverse mentoring. Um, so was that kind of, was there a symbiotic relationship between you and was it Debbie, you said? Isabel Berwick: Oh, I very much doubt it. I really like reEP 235 · 25 Sept 2025·interview· 37:52–41:1435:29Do you still see it as a failure?Al Elliott: No, 100% not. Um, had I not had that failure early on, if I had it now, that would be difficult to recover from both financially and Mentally, that would be a tough one to cut to. It's because imagine if you'EP 218 · 29 Jul 2025·other· 35:29–36:2919:39What Andrew has learned about teamsAl Elliott: So on this Palmer jerkiness continuum that we've just invented, at what point do we go, we are not accepting this behavior? Where does someone go from, They're maybe in the wrong role, or perhaps they're justEP 217 · 24 Jul 2025·interview· 19:39–28:2326:56Learning from missteps — and what the team learnedTim Lupinacci: It was interesting after it was a couple really hard years, as I said, like we had about 6 months before the pandemic where we were trying to turn some things around already. So we were already in the trenEP 215 · 17 Jul 2025·interview· 26:56–30:4248:27Ambition, ego, and being okay with being wrongAl Elliott: Trying to get my head around this. In your company, you're like, okay, I don't mind being wrong. I don't need to be the leader. Yet in your private life, you're reading about building empires. So How are we rEP 189 · 17 Apr 2025·interview· 48:27–51:207:34First 30 days: learning and relationship buildingAl Elliott: Well, let's go on to like the first sort of like segment of 3, the first of 3, your first 30 days as a brand new manager. So someone's just been promoted, they're about to start their role on Monday. What wouEP 177 · 6 Mar 2025·interview· 7:34–9:2120:38Hot Take: Veerle Numan on measuring the impact of learning & AIAl Elliott: Okay, so after this very short break, we'll be back with this week's hot take, which is from a woman from Valamis, which is one of the leading learning management system providers. If you thought that traininEP 174 · 25 Feb 2025·hot take· 20:38–32:1914:27Story 3: Short breaks boost learningAl Elliott: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah Leanne Elliott: And clearly it worked out quite well for David, but equally, this might not have been the best approach, Mr. Beckham Senior. So researchers have basically found that real iEP 172 · 18 Feb 2025·news roundup· 14:27–19:257:57The importance of being a tinkererJohn White: There's lots of software systems that go into running even a small business, but if you start at the larger end of small businesses, you start to get fairly complex technology systems that tend to need eitherEP 135 · 10 Oct 2024·panel interview· 7:57–10:5120:27Mistakes are part of the journeyAl Elliott: One of the concerns that I've got being a straight, privileged, white, middle-class male is that I'm gonna mess this up. I'm gonna say something I shouldn't say with the right meaning and the right sort of thEP 62 · 26 Oct 2023·other· 20:27–23:1551:35Lesson 6: You Don't Learn Anything When Things Are Going WellAl Elliott: You are defined by how you conduct yourself and how you respond when things are going poorly. So, you know, I've definitely had situ— I've had companies fail, right? So, you know, by any objective measure, thEP 44 · 21 Jun 2023·other· 51:35–58:54
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