Leadership Decanted
Curious about leaders, leading teams, or leadership? So are Paul Garcia and Kerry "KG" Butler. In fact, they turned their periodic happy hour chats about life and leadership into the Leadership Decanted Podcast. Join Paul and KG as they discuss all things leadership. Each episode of Leadership Decanted asks fascinating questions about leadership and keeps the conversation flowing over a nice bottle of wine.
Episodes
74 episodes
(5.02) Leadership: It's all Bollocks!
When many of us consider leadership and leadership practice, we may assume specific contexts (corporate, politics, the public domain), and specific ways to 'do' leadership. In fact, from accepted governance processes to the way organisations ar...
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Season 5
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Episode 2
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46:48
Cheeky Half Episode (30): Is Leadership in Crisis?
According to DDI's Global Leadership Forecast 2025 Report, the state of global organisational leadership is nothing short of dire. But how bad is it?
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Season 5
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24:23
(5.01) From Diapers to Dirt: A Leadership Journey through the Circular Economy.
[Episode contains explicit language - but not too much!]In this episode, KG and Paul kick off the year with an inspiring conv...
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Season 5
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Episode 1
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56:43
Cheeky Half Episode (29): Leadership and the Need for Endurance
We're back for Season 5! How amazing is that??!!We kick things off with Paul & KG catching up, chatting about the year ahead and ...
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Season 5
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10:23
Cheeky Half Episode (28): Looking forward.
This is it folks! Well, for this year, anyway. Paul & KG look forward to what may be in store for 2025, and throw around some amb...
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Season 4
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12:21
(4.10) Our journey in 2024.
In our final main episode for this season, Paul & KG reminisce over a cracker of a wine! As they sip on a
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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33:34
Cheeky Half Episode (27): When you feel the world is burning, what then?
KG has referred to this conversation topic as a little 'spicy'. Though we suspect many of our listeners will feel the heat in different ways, if at all.Before you listen, be aware this...
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Season 4
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17:36
(4.09) Leadership and The Wisdom of the Horse.
Being aware of how we 'show up' in our workplaces, how we interact with our colleagues and what our bodies are telling us in even the most seemingly trivial interactions (am I anxious, tense, relaxed, energised?) is, at least in our experience,...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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55:40
Cheeky Half Episode (26): Disengaging from it all.
Do you ever feel like things are getting just a little too 'noisy' for you? Maybe you're juggling too many things at work, or change is coming at you at increasing speeds and frequency, or maybe 'doom scrolling' is taking its toll?Exper...
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Season 4
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18:24
(4.08) Leadership and Organisational Culture.
In some ways, the word 'Culture' is as difficult to define as one of our other favourite words, 'Leadership'. A number of competing definitions abound, but what seems common to many of our experiences is that, whilst a clear a...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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57:23
Cheeky Half Episode (25): Leading without a 'playbook'.
When leading teams or organisations, there is often an unspoken expectation that, no matter how dark the challenge, those leading us will know a way through to the light. After all, surely they have done this before. They simply open their lead...
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Season 4
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16:03
(4.07) How might our Leadership contribute to a more cohesive society?
Back in Cheeky Half 17, Paul & KG considered the Social Coh...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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53:17
Cheeky Half Episode (24): Leadership and the Resilience 'Myth'
The concept of Resilience is one whose purchase has increased exponentially in Leadership circles over the past few decades. We preach its virtues and benefits with increasing zeal and seek out practices that will instil in us the necessary ski...
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Season 4
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11:09
(4.06) Leadership and the 'Common Good'.
We often talk about leadership as if we all shared a common understanding of its purpose. But what is leadership for, really? Is it to ensure things get done? Is it to inspire others to a shared goal or purpose? What if its purpose were both gr...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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51:11
Cheeky Half Episode (23): Listener feedback: What makes a great leader?
Cheeky Half episodes are Paul and KG's attempts at articulating ideas on leadership they've been tossing around but not fully comprehe...
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Season 4
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18:22
(4.05) Leadership and Human Rights: Making good on a promise.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights affirms that, "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." It is an affirmation as well as a promise made by many countries via the ratification of a number of Human...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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51:04
Cheeky Half Episode (22): Isn't branding just for livestock?!?
The need to present a professional persona to the world is now pretty much assumed. In fact, in some circles it is expected. Social media platforms have paved approaches and practices that allow us to reach thousands, if not millions, of eye ba...
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Season 4
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16:23
(4.04) What makes a great leader?!?
What makes a great leader?!?It wasn't until a listener emailed Paul & KG this question that it dawned on them they had never actu...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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34:30
Cheeky Half Episode (21): Calling it as I see it: Leadership and 'Naïve Realism'.
We do love a 'straight talker'. Someone who is courageous enough to call out the BS. Someone who feels comfortable to speak their mind, and call it 'as they see it'. But sometimes it doesn't take much for a virtue to transform into a form of 'v...
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Season 4
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9:40
(4.03) Owning your power: When local Leadership provokes global implications.
*** WARNING: SOME STRONG LANGUAGE IN THIS EPISODE. ***Many of us might regularly reflect on the big concerns confronting our generation - climate action and our nation's relationship to first nations people are ju...
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Season 4
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Episode 3
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39:53
Cheeky Half Episode (20): What makes for better leadership, self-confidence or self-awareness?
Many of us know someone in a Leadership position that oozes self-confidence. They are highly skilled, backing every one of their decisions, as if they were fated. However, what happens when those people lack self-awareness? Many of us have expe...
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Season 4
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14:08
(4.02) Three Leaders walk into a bar...
If you are currently a practicing leader, regardless of the size of your team or organisation, you really don't need us to remind you that it can be a tough gig. Good leadership practice is nothing to sneeze at. It's serious business.Bu...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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57:19
Cheeky Half Episode (19): Gender Pay Gaps and Leadership Responsibility
For this Cheeky Half Paul & KG riff on the latest report by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency, ...
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Season 4
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17:53