Decision Load

Decision Load is a show for leaders carrying too many decisions. Hosted by Marko Ladis, the show explores where companies get stuck when decisions, ownership, authority, and execution stop matching. Each conversation goes beneath the surface of scaling, AI adoption, founder load, team accountability, and operational complexity to examine the real decision patterns behind stalled execution. For CEOs, founders, COOs, operators, product leaders, engineering leaders, and anyone responsible for closing decisions that keep coming back.

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  Episode #10

  April Dunford: Why Buyers Back Out of Good Deals at the Last Minute

  Sep 2, 202656 minS1

  <p>Positioning expert April Dunford reveals why half of B2B deals can die at “no decision”, why buyers who prefer you still walk away, and why founders who keep rescuing deals may be hiding a positioning problem.​April Dunford (‪@positioningshow‬) is a positioning expert and former marketing executive with 25 years of experience inside technology companies. She now helps B2B companies get clear on who they really compete with, what makes them different, and why their best customers should choose them. She is the author of **Obviously Awesome**, recently released in a new second edition.She explains:◼ Why deals that look ce...

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  Episode #9

  Communication Expert: Why Smart Teams Ask PERMISSION — Even When You Tell Them To Take Ownership

  Aug 26, 202655 minS1

  <p>Leadership communication expert Dr Michael Gerharz reveals why smart teams can understand your strategy and still keep asking for permission, why more communication can actually create more confusion, and how leaders can make decisions usable without being in every room.</p><p>Dr Michael Gerharz helps leaders find the right words in career-defining moments. He is the author of The Paths to Strategic Impact and works with leaders to turn strategy and intent into language people can understand, trust and act on.</p><p>He explains:</p><p>◼ Why “I communicated it clearly” doesn’t mean your team knows what to...

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  They Gave Him Authority. Then Punished Him for Using It. | Victor Trieu

  Aug 18, 20261h 5mS0

  <p>Nobody has to tell you not to make the decision. The system teaches you that by what happens to the last person who made one. Victor Trieu spent 18 years in corporate Australia, finishing as an executive manager at Westpac with a team of ten and, on paper, real decision-making authority. In practice, anything risky, political or expensive went upstairs for a rubber stamp. Seven mental health spirals and six burnouts later, he left at 41. This conversation is about the gap between the authority in your job description and the authority you have when something goes wrong. About why smart...

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  Episode #7

  Dr Liz O’Riordan: I Was the Breast Surgeon—Then I Became the Patient

  Aug 12, 202643 minS1

  <p>When someone says, "I'm fine," they may really mean: "I don't have the energy to become another person's problem today."Breast surgeon Liz O'Riordan spent 20 years training to treat the disease that found her at 40. Two recurrences later, at 43, she could no longer operate and lost the career she'd built her whole identity around. She joins Marko Ladis to talk about what happens when the person who is normally in control suddenly isn't.This conversation goes far beyond medicine. It's about breaking bad news to people who will remember the words, the weather and who cried for the rest...

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  Finance Expert: Your Company Is Lying to Itself—And the Numbers Prove It

  Aug 5, 20261h 3mS0

  <p>When a CEO says, “The numbers don’t make sense,” they may really mean: “I don’t like what these numbers are telling me.”</p><p><br></p><p>Finance and people leader Narghiza Ergashova joins Marko Ladis to explore what spreadsheet chaos, conflicting reports and cash-flow pressure reveal about leadership.</p><p><br></p><p>This conversation goes beyond Excel and financial reporting. It examines why accurate data still fails to create trust, how blame encourages employees to hide uncomfortable information, and why companies often ask for another dashboard when the real problem is ownership.</p><p><br></p><p>Get Dec...

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