Hosted by Paul Malatzky · 🇺🇸 US · EN-AU · 20 episodes
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No One Told Me This is a podcast about leadership, teams, and workplace culture, not as they’re meant to work, but as they’re actually experienced. Hosted by Paul, the show explores the unspoken realities of working with people, the assumptions we make, the tensions we avoid, and the things we often learn the hard way. Through solo reflections, candid conversations, and the occasional deep dive, it’s a space to make sense of how work really gets done. From culture drift and team dynamics to decision-making under pressure, each episode takes a grounded, thoughtful look at what leadership looks like in practice, especially when things aren’t neat or predictable. Because sometimes the most important lessons aren’t the ones we’re taught. They’re the ones no one told us… or maybe we just weren’t listening.
Paul Malatzky hosts No One Told Me This, a business show with 20 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail Every business makes decisions every day. Some are obvious. Some are small. Some are made in meetings. Some are made in passing. And some are not really made at all, they just drift until someone eventua
Send us Fan Mail Most businesses think behaviour problems are people problems. But often… they’re structure problems. In this episode of No One Told Me This, Paul explores the quiet ways structure shapes how teams operat
Send us Fan Mail Most leaders I meet are actually pretty decent people. They care. They want a good team. They don’t want conflict. And weirdly… that’s often where things start to get messy. Not because they’re doing any
Send us Fan Mail Most businesses say they value honesty. But in reality… it’s often optional. In this episode, we explore the everyday version of “lying” that shows up in teams. Not the big, obvious stuff, but the small,
Send us Fan Mail This one’s a bit different. No script. No neat structure. Just a conversation that went where it went. It started with a home battery and an app that quietly gamifies efficiency… and somehow ended up in
Send us Fan Mail We all have a natural way of showing up. Some of us are steady and structured. Some are expressive and energised. Some are analytical and cautious, others are direct and decisive. But here’s the real que
Send us Fan Mail Most businesses have a list of values. They’re often on the wall, or on the website.. But here’s the real question: Are the people who live those values the ones being backed, listened to, and rewarded?
Send us Fan Mail It’s the same story every December: Everyone’s tired, everyone wants a break, and somehow everything suddenly becomes “urgent”… even when it absolutely isn’t. In this final episode of Season 1, I talk ab
Send us Fan Mail Are people in your team going over heads, or across the room? In small businesses, relationships matter. But how those relationships form, vertically (up and down the hierarchy) or horizontally (across t
Send us Fan Mail We’ve taken the full tour. Through the Time Furnace, the Rework Loop, the Silence Budget, and the Talent Skip Bin. Now it’s time to talk about what happens next. In this final episode of Inside the Waste
Send us Fan Mail Behind the Time Furnace. Past the Rework Loop. Just near the skip bin. No, not the one for old chairs and monitors, but the Talent Skip Bin. It’s where good people get wasted. In Part 5 of Inside the Was
Send us Fan Mail They don’t complain. They don’t warn you. They just stop coming back. In this episode of No One Told Me This, Paul looks at what really causes customers to drift away, quietly, slowly, and often unnotice
Send us Fan Mail You’ve probably paid into it without realising. Welcome to The Silence Budget - Part 4 of Inside the Waste Factory. In this episode, Paul and Jason explore the quietest (and most expensive) department in
Send us Fan Mail You know the job. You did it. Then you did it again. Welcome to The Rework Loop – where time, trust, and morale quietly disappear. In Part 3 of Inside the Waste Factory, we look at the cost of doing thin
Send us Fan Mail Trust is meant to be the foundation of every team. At least… that’s what we’re told. But in small and medium businesses, that version of trust rarely shows up the way the books describe it — and chasing
Send us Fan Mail You can’t multiply chaos and expect order. Yet that’s exactly what happens when businesses try to scale without the right foundations. In this episode of No One Told Me This, I dig into the four words th
Send us Fan Mail Where did the week go? This is Episode 5 of No One Told Me This, and Part 2 of The Waste Factory — a six-part mini-series exploring the inefficiencies every business pays for (but no one budgets). In thi
Send us Fan Mail No door. No sign on the wall. Just hours going in… and nothing coming out. This is Episode 4 of No One Told Me This, and the start of a six-part mini-series: The Waste Factory. In this series we explore
Send us Fan Mail We say we want trust in teams, but what if that’s not really the issue? This episode flips the usual script and introduces a new lens: Trust and Confidence aren’t the same thing, and confusing them might
Send us Fan Mail Three deceptively simple questions. That’s it. No frameworks, no buzzwords. Just an honest gut check about how you lead, how you work with others, and whether you’re actually someone people would choose
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No One Told Me This is hosted by Paul Malatzky. The show is categorised under business (management) and has published 20 episodes.
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