The Gartner Talent Angle
376 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 131 ratingsThe Gartner Talent Angle podcast is a new and exciting approach to talent management. Every month, we’ll talk with those on the forefront of HR innovation — innovators, academics, HR professionals, economists, coaches — to explore the most interesting and cutting edge ideas in the world of HR and people development. Join us as we reimagine talent.
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Team Leadership
January 03, 2017 04:24 - 19 minutes - 26.2 MBWe asked 10 podcast guests, "if you had one message for executives, what would it be?" Listen to the most important ideas on team leadership from Gen. Stan McChrystal, Shawn Achor, Roselinde Torres, Susan Cain, Susan David, Microsoft, Netflix, Zappos, Dan Frawley, Bill Von Hipple Here are the podcasts they're taken from: Emotional Agility and Leadership: Susan David - View in iTunes How Microsoft "Screens-In" Culture Change: Kathleen Hogan - Powering Microsoft Through Culture - View in...
Social Intelligence, Corporate Tribes and Baboon Mentalities : Bill Von Hippel
December 20, 2016 00:52 - 1 hour - 86 MBEvolutionary psychologist Bill Von Hippel shares a fascinating look at why our tribal past dictates our present day success. He explores how to use social situations to achieve innovation and why some of us struggle in social situations, while others make even the most awkward encounters flow seamlessly. Bill von Hippel is Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia. He serves on the editorial board of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Social Psychologica...
Emotional Agility and Leadership: Susan David
December 06, 2016 07:27 - 54 minutes - 74.8 MBDo emotions belong in organizations? In a cultural dialogue focused on happiness and productivity, Dr. Susan David looks at the reality of avoiding emotions in our every day life, and how people who engage in high levels of fake emotions have lower engagement, higher burnout, and lower levels of effectiveness. An award-winning Psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, Dr. Susan David talks with us a...
Extreme Potential, Elite Performance: Andy Walshe, Red Bull High Performance Team
November 22, 2016 14:39 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBDr. Andy Walshe has possibly the coolest job in the world. He helps Red Bull's extreme athletes skydive from 25 miles up in space, surf 90 foot waves and concentrate for hours of racing at 200 mph. And he's come to some eye opening conclusions, among them self-compassion is crucial to elite performance and that business executives need frighteningly similar instruction as elite athletes. He gains that unique 5-mile high perspective by working with hundreds of international athletes, sup...
Focus on What Matters: Mark Manson
November 08, 2016 05:00 - 52 minutes - 71.6 MBMark believes that finding something important and meaningful in your life is the most productive use of your time and energy and that living a good life is about giving a $%@ only about the things that align with your personal values. Every life has problems associated with it and finding meaning in your life will help you sustain the effort needed to overcome the problems you face.
Creating Ideas that Influence: Jonah Berger, Wharton
October 22, 2016 13:28 - 42 minutes - 39.3 MBJonah Berger is on to us. We're social creatures that, almost robotically, respond to cues and narratives. His work on Contagious and Invisible Influence gets to the heart of why some ideas and products go viral and others don't and how to uncover hidden "influence hacks" that shape culture and drive behavior.
The Hard Truth About Business Model Innovation and Talent: Derek Van Bever, HBS
September 23, 2016 16:51 - 49 minutes - 67.9 MBDerek Van Bever, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School, talks with CEB about how to better inform decisions about business model innovation and what it can mean for talent. Many attempts at business model innovation fail. Derek Van Bever argues that executives need to understand how business models develop through predictable stages over time — and then apply that understanding to key decisions.
How Microsoft "Screens-In" Culture Change: Kathleen Hogan
September 13, 2016 23:06 - 42 minutes - 57.8 MBAs the Chief People Officer at Microsoft, Kathleen Hogan is responsible for the company's cultural transformation. She joins us to talk about how Microsoft is using a technique called "Screening In" to drive cultural change through diversity. Hogan is new to the HR function, but not to talent management. Previously she was vice president of Microsoft Services, a team dedicated to helping businesses and consumers maximize the value of their investment in Microsoft technologies. Hogan has a...
Why Humans Aren't Rational: Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahnamen
August 13, 2016 14:56 - 50 minutes - 68.8 MBDaniel Kahneman's ground-breaking research into decision making and judgment has challenged fundamental beliefs about human nature. In study after study,together with Amos Tversky, he showed that when it comes to making decisions, humans are predisposed to irrationality. Their surprising findings have had profound implications for everything from behavioral economics and politics, to advanced medicine and sports. Their work, and its impact, is hardly obscure. Mr. Kahneman won the 2002 Nobe...
The Future of HR Tech: Dan Frawley
August 05, 2016 18:46 - 1 hour - 70.4 MBDan Frawley leads CEB Ventures, a program designed to uncover the bleeding edge of Tech and how it impacts our decisions on talent and operations. He's interviewed over 200 companies to identify the latest trends and pathways to the future. He joins the CEB Talent Angle to share his perspective on HR Tech and what it means for companies and the HR function. Previously, Mr. Frawley served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of CEB Iconoculture, Inc., since December 200...
Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time: Tony Schwartz
July 15, 2016 16:31 - 53 minutes - 73.7 MBTony Schwartz of the Energy Project believes that we’re at our best when we move rhythmically between spending and renewing energy — a reality that companies must embrace to fuel sustainable engagement and high performance. When you're intent on supplying fuel in each dimension of energy, you're creating happier people that will affect your organization’s success. Tony's most recent book, The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance, was a N...
Transparent Leadership: Peter Shankman
June 29, 2016 16:00 - 36 minutes - 49.7 MBPeter Shankman, a pioneer in modern PR, marketing, advertising, social media, and customer service, profiles the famously nice executives, entrepreneurs, and companies that are setting the standard for success in this new collaborative world. He explores the new hallmarks of effective leadership, including loyalty, optimism, humility, and a reverence for customer service, and shows how leaders like Jet Blue's Dave Needleman, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, Steve Jobs of Apple, Ken Chenault of Amex, ...
What Great Leaders Do: Roselinde Torres
June 16, 2016 16:00 - 50 minutes - 69.7 MBFifty-eight percent of the companies cited significant talent gaps for critical leadership roles. That means that despite corporate training programs, off-sites, assessments, coaching, all of these things, more than half the companies had failed to grow enough great leaders. You may be asking yourself, is my company helping me to prepare to be a great 21st-century leader? The odds are, probably not. Roselinde Torres distills down the characteristics of leaders who are thriving and what the...
How to Execute on Innovation: Chris Trimble
June 01, 2016 16:00 - 39 minutes - 54.4 MBCompanies can't survive without innovating, but most put far more emphasis on generating "Big Ideas" instead of executing them--turning ideas into actual breakthrough products, services, and process improvements. That's because "ideating" is energizing and glamorous. By contrast, execution seems like humdrum, behind-the-scenes dirty work. But without execution, Big Ideas go nowhere. In "The Other Side of Innovation," Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble reveal how to execute an innovation in...
Smarter, Faster, Better: Charles Duhigg
May 23, 2016 14:09 - 44 minutes - 61.4 MBSmarter Faster Better identifies eight key productivity concepts—from motivation and goal setting to focus and decision making—that explain why some people and companies get so much done. Drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics—as well as the experiences of CEOs, educational reformers, four-star generals, FBI agents, airplane pilots, and Broadway songwriters—this painstakingly researched book explains that the most productive people, companies, an...
Corporate Humanity: Margaret Heffernen
May 04, 2016 18:10 - 56 minutes - 77.3 MBMARGARET HEFFERNAN is a corporate advisor, humanist and sometimes organizational anarchist. An entrepreneur, Chief Executive and author she was born in Texas, raised in Holland and educated at Cambridge University. She worked in BBC Radio for five years where she wrote, directed, produced and commissioned dozens of documentaries and dramas. She's done fascinating work investigating corporate failure and success. She has a keen eye for understanding how culture impacts behavior both good and...
Adam Grant: Originals - How Innovators Achieve Success
April 19, 2016 00:03 - 51 minutes - 70.2 MBAccording to Bestselling Author Adam Grant,innovation isn't rooted in the brilliance of one great idea,instead originality stems from a culture that encourages challenging the norm, allows for testing of unpopular ideas in the face of group think and manages risk to allow true winners to shine. "Originality involves introducing andadvancing an idea that’s relatively unusual within a particular domain,and that hast he potential to improve it. Originality itself starts with creativity:gener...
Deep Work, Focused Success in a Distracted World: Cal Newport
April 07, 2016 18:38 - 57 minutes - 78.3 MBHow can we screen out the chaos to make work more satisfying, productive, and meaningful? Cal Newport, author of Deep Work, joins us to share the tools and rules for deep, meaningful work. Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Yet, Most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social media, not even realizing there's a better way.
Shawn Achor: Positive Thinking and Performance
March 17, 2016 16:38 - 57 minutes - 79.2 MBOne of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. His research on mindset made the cover of Harvard Business Review, his TED talk is one of the most popular of all time with over 11 million views, and his lecture airing on PBS has been seen by millions. Shawn has lectured or worked with over a third of the Fortune 100 companies, as well as the NFL, the NBA, the Pentagon and the White House. Shawn is the author of New York Times best-selling books The Happin...
How Netflix Wins with Culture Over Rules: Barbie Graver, NetFlix
March 03, 2016 19:55 - 49 minutes - 68.3 MBInstead of smothering its leaders with policy and process, Netflix empowers its leaders by giving them the freedom and responsibility to make choices. As VP of Talent Barbie Graver explains, Netflix recruits for and drives a culture of creativity and self-discipline with transparency and candid feedback (feedback is a gift) which allows them to scale, innovate and compete in an intensely competitive market. * Apologies for the snowzilla audio
The Neuroscience of Leadership: Dr. David Rock
February 18, 2016 15:49 - 43 minutes - 59.8 MBThe science of the brain is taking the guesswork out of leadership and is leading to some surprising, and ultimately more simple, paths to performance. Dr. Rock explains how neuroscience impacts leadership development, performance management and biased thinking. ** We apologize for the Snowzilla impacted audio Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neuroleadershipinstitute Twitter: https://twitter.com/neuroleadership LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/neuroleadership-insti...
How to Build Powerful Networks: Rob Cross
February 05, 2016 22:04 - 1 hour - 86.2 MBLearn the key factors that allow anyone to be a power social networker. Work has become a collaborative endeavor accomplished less through standardized processes and formal structures than through informal networks of relationships. But harnessing the power of these seemingly invisible groups to achieve organizational goals isa murky and elusive undertaking. Rob Cross argues that rather than think about collaboration from a more-is-better perspective, executives need to take a clear-eyed...
Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts
January 21, 2016 20:30 - 44 minutes - 61.3 MBSusan Cain believes that the rise of introverts is the next big trend that will impact leadership. Yet while introverts often prove to be more effective leaders they are less likely to be selected for leadership. Cain explains why we dramatically undervalue introverts and how we lose in doing so. She also explores how companies can get the most out of introverts, how introverts can think about themselves differently, and why now is the time for introverts in business. For more information...
Dan Pink: The Roots of Motivation
January 10, 2016 01:03 - 1 hour - 85.7 MBAre millennials more entitled or are we offering them a bad deal? Best-selling author and thought leader Dan Pink, (To Sell is Human, Drive and A Whole New Mind) shares a counterintuitive perspective on the new employment bargain, motivation and how the corporate world might be missing the boat with millennials and losing in the process. In addition to his provocative thoughts on the new career bargain, Dan takes us on a tour through his creative process and his bestselling books to under...
Why Zappos Broke HR: Hollie Delaney, Zappos
December 30, 2015 14:00 - 58 minutes - 80 MBZappos made history when it announced plans to transition to a holacracy -- a management-free corporate structure. Holacracy is a new way of running an organization that removes power from a management hierarchy and distributes it across clear roles, which can then be executed autonomously, without a micromanaging boss. Tune in as Hollie details the pitfalls, successes, and lessons learned.
Gen. Stanley McChrystal: Changing the Way We Lead
December 08, 2015 21:03 - 54 minutes - 75.5 MBGen. Stanley McChrystal discarded a century of conventional wisdom and remade JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) into a network that combined transparent communication with decentralized decision-making authority. The walls between silos were torn down. This shift has far reaching implications for leadership both inside and outside the military. For more information on the McChrystal Group go to McChrystalgroup.com