https://www.news24.com Everyone wants the title. Almost no one is ready for the truth behind it. This is a News24 podcast series for people who build things – and for those who want to understand what leadership actually costs. Hosted by Bruce Whitfield, each episode is an unfiltered conversation with people who have sat in the chair: founders, executives, disruptors and industry leaders who have faced the pressure, responsibility and personal contradictions that come with running something bigger than themselves. No consultants. No spin. No highlight reel. Just honest conversations about the distance between what leadership looks like from the outside – and what it demands on the inside. Presented by News24, in partnership with Discovery Bank. Fresh episodes are released every Tuesday morning. Business en Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:10:19 +0200 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 12:53:43 +0200 30 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss iono.fm 2.5.2.0 News24 no Bruce Whitfield Weekly feeds@iono.fm (Feed Manager) https://cdn.iono.fm/files/p3108/logo_10030_20260608_131031_1400.jpeg https://www.news24.com Everyone wants the title. News24 episodic News24 graeme.raubenheimer@media24.com false ZA https://iono.fm/e/1710297 https://iono.fm/e/1710297
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Follow all the episodes here. ]]> Business Tue, 25 Aug 2026 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Kenny Fihla: Leading as no. 6 in 6 years 0 0 Bruce Whitfield full 42:27 So, You Think You Want to Be a CEO? https://iono.fm/e/1707777 https://iono.fm/e/1707777 This series is sponsored by Discovery Bank.
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Serame Taukobong trained as a chemist. His first employer had other ideas. What followed was Unilever, SAB, M-Net, fifteen years at MTN across Africa and then Telkom, a part state-owned telecoms relic haemorrhaging landline revenue and fighting for relevance. On day four as CEO he was in court. On day twenty-five a presidential proclamation wiped R3 billion off the share price before he’d received his first pay cheque. 
Today Telkom’s mobile business is the third largest in South Africa and one of the few state-linked companies making money. It turns out the man they threw out of the lab was exactly what the building needed.

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When Accenture retrenched him at the height of the global financial crisis, he formed the global consultancy Elixirr - listed on the London stock exchange with more than 700 people working in major markets worldwide.

He accepts that people see him as “Marmite” – you either love him or don’t – and he is okay with that. ]]> Business Tue, 21 Jul 2026 07:00:00 +0200 0 0 Stephen Newton: Leading without a safety net 0 0 Bruce Whitfield full 38:59 So, You Think You Want to Be a CEO? https://iono.fm/e/1695538 https://iono.fm/e/1695538
She joined Clicks in 2006 as HR director, spent 16 years understanding every nerve ending in the business, and in 2022 became the first black woman to lead a listed retail group in South Africa. Clicks is the dominant health and beauty retailer in southern Africa with one of the most envied pharmacy networks on the continent. 
This is a conversation about the slow, deliberate accumulation of influence and why the person who knows the most about the people in a business sometimes turns out to be the best person to run it.

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He has been chairman of Goldman Sachs International and in recent years has been CEO of Kirsh International – running the complex Affairs of Africa’s richest man and driving the deal to sell Natie Kirsh’s Jetro Cash and Carry in the USA for $29bn. ]]> Business Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:00:00 +0200 0 0 Sir Brad Fried: Leading by design 0 0 Bruce Whitfield full 42:19 So, You Think You Want to Be a CEO? https://iono.fm/e/1690462 https://iono.fm/e/1690462 His father later ran the business.When Gary Lubner took it over, it had a turnover of €600 million; by the time he retired it was headed to €7 billion and employed 36 000 people.
Listen to the extraordinary story of building Belron, the world’s biggest autoglass business.

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This is a conversation about what genuine conviction looks like in an industry where everyone is hedging, and why being unreasonable is the only honest response to a global crisis.

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Now with 45 stores in five countries, including the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia, she has been fighting for survival on the dangerous fringe of the Iran war. 

This is a conversation about what you actually find out about yourself when the thing you built gets taken apart by forces you never saw coming.

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