Hypotheticals: How Would You React If You Were Boss?
The Bottom Line
BBC
4.6 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Three business leaders tackle fictional dilemmas that test their instincts, experience and nerves. To make it more realistic, none of the guests have any idea what the scenarios are in advance.
Guests: Ben Branson, Founder, Seedlip and Sylva Sophie Mermin, Founder, Trotters Childrenswear Margaret Heffernan, former CEO, entrepreneur, author and professor of practice at the university of Bath school of management
Production team: Presenter: Evan Davis Producer: Sally Abrahams Production co-ordinator: Katie Morrison Sound: Nathan Chamberlain and Gareth Jones Editor: Matt Willis
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| 0:07.3 | Hello, I'm Kimberly Wilson. I'm a psychologist, and in my new podcast, Complex, I'll be your guide |
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| 0:21.8 | from people-pleasing to perfectionism, |
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| 0:27.3 | so we can understand ourselves a little better. |
| 0:30.5 | Complex with me, Kimberly Wilson. |
| 0:33.0 | Listen on BBC Sounds. |
| 0:35.7 | This is the podcast version of the program with extra material in it we didn't have room for in the radio broadcast. |
| 0:41.7 | I do hope you enjoy it. |
| 0:43.5 | Hello, welcome to the last in this current series of The Bottom Line. |
| 0:47.7 | And back by popular demand, it is our What If Hypotheticals program. |
| 0:52.4 | We're putting our guests in the hot seat. We're giving them |
| 0:55.4 | real world, non-real business scenarios. Actually, some of them are quite real. The kind of |
| 1:02.0 | things that require a decision. And we're asking them how they would react in those situations. |
| 1:08.0 | They have to use their imagination a little bit to fill in the gaps in the |
| 1:11.3 | scenarios. The guests don't know what the scenarios are. They don't know what they're about |
| 1:16.3 | to hear. That just makes it more fun. Now last year when we did this, the scenarios we ended up |
| 1:21.3 | discussing often seemed to have a very strong PR element to them. It was all about the optics, |
| 1:27.1 | how it looked and how you told the public. |
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