Author Nuala Walsh, CEO and founder of MindEquity, a business and behavioural science consultancy in the UK, discusses the challenges of being a thoughtful leader in “the daily din of distraction and disinformation” – and why decision friction is a necessary skill.

Walsh’s book, Tune In: How to Make Smarter Decisions in a Noisy World, suggests numerous strategies that leaders can use to analyse information effectively and holistically, as well as methods to recognise biases and misjudgements that could hold them back.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

§ What it means to tune in and tune out.

§ Some reasons we fall into misinformation traps.

§ Strategies we can use to recognise our biases.

§ How decision friction can help us more accurately decode the information we hear.

§ The benefits of using emotional intelligence to interpret clouded judgements.

The best time to start on digital transformation? Well, it was five years ago. But, says digital transformation expert David Rogers, starting now is the next best time.

Rogers, an author, speaker, and corporate consultant, is also a professor at Columbia University. He explains some of the ways companies hurt themselves in transformation efforts, why people management is such a big part of those digital changes, and how some companies are making gains even without big budgets or fancy, new apps.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

· A discussion on why digital transformations are so difficult.

· The importance of people alignment in a digital transformation effort.

· Why budgeting is not a vital part of such transformations.

· The advice about planting a tree that also applies to digital transformation urgency.

· Why there is no single KPI for digital transformation.

This episode features Oliver Rowe, the editor-in-chief of FM, detailing the contents of the April digital edition of the magazine.

Rowe explains how members can access the most recent edition of the online magazine. He also highlights several articles, including this edition’s theme of sustainability.

One noteworthy column, on businesses increasingly taking a multicapital approach to maximising value, was written by CIMA President Sarah Ghosh, FCMA, CGMA. Ghosh recently was a guest on the FM podcast, speaking about the importance of International Women’s Day.

Also, this link features Rowe speaking about the February edition.

What you’ll learn from this episode:

· The paths for members to access content in the digital editions.

· Highlights of the April edition, including focus areas of sustainability and leadership.

· The advice regular contributor Rhymer Rigby gives for delivering bad news.

· The focus of Liam Bastick’s column on using Microsoft Excel.