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The World Class Leaders Show: The CEO leadership podcast for leaders who solve big problems and build better futures.

The World Class Leaders Show: The CEO leadership podcast for leaders who solve big problems and build better futures.

Andrea Petrone 200 Episodi ott 15, 2026

The World Class Leaders Show is a leadership podcast hosted by executive coach Andrea Petrone. Each week he speaks with CEOs and industry leaders about how they make critical decisions, manage pressure, and lead through uncertainty. The conversations cover crisis management, team dynamics, and the practical habits of executive leadership. The show is aimed at corporate executives who want actionable insights for leading in high-stakes situations.

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261 - Why 50% of New CEOs Fail in the First 18 Months (and What to Do About it)
261 - Why 50% of New CEOs Fail in the First 18 Months (and What to Do About it) ott 15, 2026 913 Nobody tells you that the job you were promoted for is not the job you now have. You earned the corner office because you were excellent at something. Finance, operations, commercial, product. That excellence is real, and it is exactly what makes the next part so hard, because the instinct that got you here is to go back to it. When the pressure rises, you return to the function you know best, whe
260 - Why the Best CEOs Are the Quietest in the Room
260 - Why the Best CEOs Are the Quietest in the Room ott 8, 2026 908 In This Episode We've all been sold the same story about influence. Communicate more. Be more visible. Bring more energy into the room. The louder you are, the more you lead. I think it's backwards. At the top, volume becomes noise, and noise is corrosive. It trains your people to watch you instead of owning the work. The best leaders I know look quieter than you'd expect. Not passive, not soft,
259 - Most CEOs Don't Know What AI Really Is! Ft. Don Tapscott
259 - Most CEOs Don't Know What AI Really Is! Ft. Don Tapscott ott 1, 2026 2156 Most CEOs think AI means ChatGPT or a few tools in the supply chain. Don Tapscott says they're missing the biggest shift: personal AI agents that will become an extension of every employee, customer, and leader. In this episode of The World Class Leader Show, Andrea Petrone talks with Don Tapscott, one of the world's leading authorities on technology in society, about "Identity AI," why leaders ne
258 - How Great CEOs Lead Their Board Instead of Managing It
258 - How Great CEOs Lead Their Board Instead of Managing It set 24, 2026 707 Sunday night. A CEO I work with is still at his desk building the deck every chart, every question anticipated. By Monday he'll walk in armoured. And he told me he still dreads it. Every single time. So I said: that deck isn't managing your board. It's managing your fear. Your board is the one room where the power is inverted, and that single fact turns leaders into defendants. Covering every base
257 - Confidence Kills CEOs Faster Than Bad Strategy!
257 - Confidence Kills CEOs Faster Than Bad Strategy! set 17, 2026 2619 Every CEO thinks they're supposed to have the answers. Jim Brown used to think so too, until he sat in on a leadership meeting and noticed something strange. Every time a hard question came up, the whole room turned to look at the founder. Not because anyone asked them to. It had just become the pattern. She gave the answer, the meeting moved on, and nobody thought twice about it. Except Jim did.
256 - How Great CEOs Cut the Jargon and Lead With Clarity
256 - How Great CEOs Cut the Jargon and Lead With Clarity set 10, 2026 828 "We need to operationalize efficiencies." I've heard that sentence in a dozen boardrooms. It always means the same thing: we're cutting costs and some roles will go. Everyone in the room knows it. Nobody says it. And the people who'll actually lose their jobs are left reading fog. That's what this episode is about. Jargon isn't a communication problem, it's a courage problem. It's what we reach fo
255 - Why the Best Innovation Comes From Employees, Not CEOs
255 - Why the Best Innovation Comes From Employees, Not CEOs set 3, 2026 2678 Steve Jobs. Elon Musk. Mark Zuckerberg. We tell their stories like they invented the future alone in a garage. Kaihan Krippendorff says that the story is mostly fiction, and the data backs him up.   On this episode of The World Class Leaders Show, host Andrea Petrone talks with Kaihan Krippendorff, founder of Outthinker and one of Thinkers50's top 20 global management thinkers, about who actually
254 - The Reinvention Every CEO Has to Make (And Why It's So Hard)
254 - The Reinvention Every CEO Has to Make (And Why It's So Hard) ago 27, 2026 657 A CEO told Andrea, "I don't recognize my own calendar anymore." He built the company, the company outgrew him, and nobody around him would say it. This episode is about the hardest reinvention a leader ever has to make and why growth is so good at hiding the need for it. In This Episode The business reinvents itself; the leader doesn't. Andrea unpacks a pattern he's watched for years: a company ch
253 - Amy Edmondson: Why "safe" doesn't mean "comfortable"
253 - Amy Edmondson: Why "safe" doesn't mean "comfortable" ago 20, 2026 2494 In this episode of The World Class Leaders Show, host Andrea Petrone sits down with Amy Edmondson, Novartis Professor of Leadership at Harvard Business School and the world's #1 ranked management thinker (Thinkers50), to challenge what most people get wrong about psychological safety. Amy explains why psychological safety isn't about being nice or comfortable. It's about candor. She and Andrea ta
252 - Why You're Losing Your Best Employees (and What It's Really Costing You)
252 - Why You're Losing Your Best Employees (and What It's Really Costing You) ago 13, 2026 730 Losing a top performer costs 2.5 times their annual salary and most leaders don't see it coming until it's too late. Andrea Petrone shares the seven things that actually keep great people, and why none of them is a bigger paycheck. When a talented employee walks out the door, you lose far more than their output. You lose years of institutional knowledge, you take a hit to team morale and trust, an
251 - MIT Professor Reveals Why Imposter Syndrome Happens?
251 - MIT Professor Reveals Why Imposter Syndrome Happens? ago 6, 2026 2590 Even the most accomplished executives secretly feel like frauds. MIT Professor Deborah Ancona has spent over a decade studying why and the real cause has nothing to do with confidence. On this episode of The World Class Leaders Show, host Andrea Petrone talks with Deborah Ancona, Distinguished Professor of Management at MIT Sloan and Founder of the MIT Leadership Center about her research on "Fami
250 - How to Build CEO Credibility in Your First 90 Days (Before It's Too Late)
250 - How to Build CEO Credibility in Your First 90 Days (Before It's Too Late) lug 30, 2026 526 Your credibility as a CEO isn't built over years, it's won or lost in your first 90 days. In this episode of World Class Leaders, executive coach Andrea Petrone shows you exactly how to build it fast: why new CEOs and top leaders are judged within their first three months, the three traps that quietly destroy credibility (waiting too long to act, drowning in data, and ignoring culture), and the th

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