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Have you ever wanted to spend time with a chief executive and ask them their thoughts on topics ranging from leadership, communicating change to how they send their typical week?

This interview with Andy Bond, Chief Executive of ASDA provides such insights.  It will help you become a better leader.

Andy Bond joined ASDA as marketing manager in 1994. Shortly after, Archie Norman Andy Bond, CEO, ASDA and Alan Leyton began their turnaround of the chain. He rose rapidly and made his mark when he took control of the George clothing business in 2000, around the time the supermarket was acquired by WalMart. In 2004, he became Chief Operating Officer and in 2005 he became Chief Executive.  

ASDA is the UK's second largest supermarket, serving thirteen million customers each week. Andy is responsible for over three hundred stores and their hundred and sixty thousand employees.

In our discussion Andy shares his views on:

  • Is leadership a complex subject or is it simple
  • Communicating change
  • How a CEO spends a typical week.
  • What managers can do today to start to develop their leadership skills.
  • What some of the traits are that all good leaders share.
  • How as a leader he balances he finds work / life balance
  • Leadership styles
  • Being a leadership role model
  • How to go about finding a leadership role model.
  • Who are the leaders Andy particularly admires?
  • Why ASDA is such a good training ground for FTSE CEOs (in 2008 eight FTSE CEOs were ex-ASDA)
To listen to this interview now (duration 21 minutes approx) click below:


The interview was recorded in 2008.

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