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Niels Brabandt, the owner and founder of NB Networks, is your host. Sustainable Leadership. We are helping managers to become better leaders. This show dedicates time to help, to improve and to assist you in achieving your goals.
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#582 Emotional Markers: Why One Single Moment Decides Trust and Loyalty | Niels Brabandt (opens the original)
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Why do employees remember one bad moment with their leader for years, even when everything else went well? In this episode of The Leadership Podcast, leadership expert Niels Brabandt breaks down the concept of emotional markers, the lasting impressions that determine how much trust, effort and loyalty people offer their leadership going forward. Using a real-world case involving a retroactively deducted expense claim, Niels Brabandt shows how quickly recognition can turn into resentment, why ext
#581 The Importance of Taking a Stand in Leadership | Niels Brabandt on Management, Leadership and Values | Niels Brabandt (opens the original)
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Why do so many executives say values matter, only to abandon them the moment things get economically uncomfortable? In this episode of The Leadership Podcast, Niels Brabandt EMBA MBA MSc draws a sharp line between management and leadership, explains why real leadership only reveals itself under pressure using the cautionary example of Deutsche Bahn's Black Zero, and argues why staying silent on free, equal and human rights for commercial reasons is not neutrality but cowardice. Drawing on a pers
#580 The Opportunities and Risks of Travel Policies | Niels Brabandt on Categories, Context and Trust (opens the original)
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Why do organisations need a travel policy at all, and why do so many of them fail? In this episode of The Leadership Podcast, Niels Brabandt EMBA MBA MSc explains why categories based on travel frequency and role are necessary, why the assumption that any bed guarantees rest is an expensive myth, and why the concept of relatability determines whether employees trust a travel policy or quietly resist it. Drawing on real examples from trade fair season around Zukunft Personal in Cologne, Niels Bra
#579 Handling Misinformation | Niels Brabandt on Evidence, Accountability and Leadership Trust (opens the original)
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For the first time in thirty five years, children in the United States have died of measles, a direct consequence of misinformation about vaccines taking hold. In this episode of The Leadership Podcast, host Niels Brabandt explains why misinformation is not simply a social media problem but a genuine operational risk for every organisation. He unpacks why an opinion is never a substitute for evidence, why freedom of opinion does not mean freedom from consequence, and why the ongoing qualificatio
#567 Who Leads Human-AI Interaction? | Dr. Adrian Wolfberg on Leadership in the Age of AI | Episode 2 of 12 (opens the original)
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In episode 2 of this 12-part series, host Niels Brabandt continues his conversation with Dr. Adrian Wolfberg, author of Who Leads When AI Thinks, on who actually leads when humans and AI work together. Dr. Adrian Wolfberg argues that leadership is determined not by which is more capable, but by the nature of the problem itself, assessed across familiarity, complexity, and ethical weight, plus a hidden fourth dimension: time. A practical, framework-driven episode for business decision-makers reth
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