More Business Advice Tips From Our Productivity Podcast

14th August 2025

Following the success of last year’s accumulation of the best business advice tips from our productivity podcast, we thought we’d take a look back over the past year to bring you even more.

Ali Rezvan

“One thing I say to a lot of retailers is, building the plane while you are flying it is incredibly difficult. But what AI will do for everyone outside your market – they’ll be able to come into your market and beat you at your own game, far cheaper than you’re able to do it, with pretty much the same product. So it then comes down to marketing.”

Listen to the full episode with Ali Rezvan, the mastermind behind The Retail Podcast and RetailNews.ai – Ali Rezvan on Retail Trends Across the World.

And if you want to hear more from Ali, he’ll be a guest speaker at our Productivity Forum this year.

Ed Hogg

When discussing how to achieve accurate AI results in business;

“You want to give it good quality data. So the more good quality, or the more right answers you give it – or the more good wrong answers you give it – the better it gets. We obviously have a world where – especially with things like Twitter – there’s a lot of misinformation out there. And so it’s really important, when we’re training our AI and using machine learning, that we give our system really high quality data that is correct, or not correct, in order to get the outputs we want, not just noise or fake news.”

Listen to the full episode with Ed Hogg, CEO of Solved by.AI – AI: Insights from Ed Hogg.

Bob Neville

“Don’t be predictable. Don’t just use the same playbook. Don’t do the same things year in, year out. Use data to inform your decisions but look at what you’re doing. Evolution is a really important part of business – growing and continually moving – but what’s more important is revolution. Understanding, when is the right time for revolution? Because, it is expensive, but there is a need, at times, for revolution. One thing’s for sure, don’t stand still and don’t think, because you have a market-leading position, that you’re going to be in that spot forever.”

Listen to the full episode with Bob Neville, a leader in the retail industry – The Perfect Fit with Bob Neville.

Chin Teik

“One of the things I use a lot is, giving people time back. If we can reduce rework, poor quality, useless meetings with no agenda that run for hours – the idea is to give people time back.”

Listen to the full episode with Chin Teik, renowned Senior Executive and Neuro Leadership Coach – Transforming Workplaces: Embracing Neuro Leadership.

Wendy Muirhead

“If you have a great culture, if you invest and you reward colleagues – even with a simple ‘Well done, you’ve done a great job today’, or ‘You’ve done something brilliant with that customer’ and ‘Look what you’ve done in that sale’ – just that level of recognition can make an absolute difference in how people feel in the work they do. And so the cultural aspect, I think, really can help drive that growth momentum, and help people stay in the business which then means that you get better experiences and that your customers do, and hopefully they spend more with you and you continue to grow.”

Listen to the full episode with Wendy Muirhead, founding partner at WH People – Transforming Workplace Culture and Engagement with Technology.

Paul Karnowski

“Projects involve pain – they just do. And there always comes to a point where you think to yourself, ‘Is this really worth it? Are we going to get to the end of it?’ But you always do get to the end of it – the important thing is to try and get to the end of it as seamlessly, as quickly and as efficiently as possible, and up with the best possible results.”

Listen to the full episode with Paul Karnowski, founding partner at WH People – Mastering Tech Project Success.

Helen Seale

“Understanding what it costs to make somebody productive in your business – and I don’t mean just onboarding, I mean getting them from the day they start, to the day they actually make financial contribution that would be the equivalent of one of your good members of staff – and investing in the processes that improve people quickly, and retain them post that, that for me is about understanding how you can reduce costs. It’s not a fluffy, HR training development issue, it’s a bottom-line cost-saving exercise.”

Listen to the full episode with Helen Seale, founding partner at WH People – The Hidden Cost of Labour Turnover.

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As you can see, AI has been a hot topic in our podcast this year. Read this post for more about how AI is evolving in business productivity.

Our business productivity podcast is full of tips and advice from various industry leaders, and it’s not to be missed if your aim is to improve your business’ productivity.

Our first episode was released on 2nd May 2020, so if you don’t listen already, there is plenty of content for you to catch up on. We even have an episode that’s dedicated to the best bits of business advice we’ve heard over the years.

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