Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan

Liz Wiseman is the CEO of Wiseman Group, a leadership research and development firm headquartered in Silicon Valley, California. She has been listed on the Thinkers50 ranking and in 2019 was recognized as the top leadership thinker in the world. She is also the author of the New York Times bestseller Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter. Liz talks about her book and shares her i...

There are four ways to elevate yourself, according to Robert Glazer, CEO of Acceleration Partners and author of the book Elevate. 1. Spiritually. You have to know yourself and have a level of self-awareness about who you are as a person, what you stand for, and what your values are. 2. Intellectually. Know where you're going, what your goals are, what you want to accomplish, and the direction you...

Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he teaches courses on Leadership and Strategy. He also has experience working with executives at Dartmouth and other prestigious universities around the world. He holds degrees from Concordia University and the London School of Economics and a Ph. D. from Columbia University in...

Making decisions in familiar circumstances is easy. All you have to do is remember what you did successfully in the past, and then do it again. But what do you do when you're faced with an unfamiliar situation? The answer lies in chess--a virtually limitless game. There are a lot of possible moves in a game of chess, but there are certain things that Grandmasters do all the time: 1. Pattern recogn...

Rosabeth Moss Kanter is a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School and the director and chair of the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative. She has authored and co-authored around 20 books, with her latest work being "Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time". Professor Kanter shares her current undertak...

We keep hearing about this concept of passion and whether or not you should follow your passion. It reminds me of a story about a man who visits a construction site. As he's going around the construction site, he sees a bunch of people working. He asks the first person what they do there. And the man responds that he lays bricks. He asks the second person, who says he is building a wall. He asks t...

Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli public intellectual, historian and professor in the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of the popular science bestsellers Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century. His writings examine free will, consciousness, intelligence, happiness and suffering. W...

How to win the war for talent by focusing on employee experience. Employee experience is the process of redesigning your workplace practices around your people by focusing on three environments: 💓Culture: how people feel working for you 🪟Technology: the tools and resources employees use 📠Space: the spaces in which employees work Lots of people are talking about the Great Resignation, but I see...

Molly Fletcher is the author of four books, one of the world's only female sports agents, and is acknowledged as the female "Jerry Maguire" by CNN. Over 300 athletes, including Hall of Fame pitcher John Smoltz, PGA TOUR golfer Matt Kuchar, broadcaster Erin Andrews, and basketball championship coaches Tom Izzo and Doc Rivers, have signed contracts with Molly worth over $500 million. In today's epis...

Are you a current or aspiring leader who feels stuck in your career? If so, you're not alone. But thankfully, there are six strategies you can implement to unstick yourself from your career and find a way to move forward. 1. Ask why. It's easy to feel stuck. But ask yourself why you feel stuck in your current role or your current environment and get to the root of the problem. 2. Focus more on who...

Tom Gilovich is an American psychologist who is the Irene Blecker Rosenfeld Professor of Psychology at Cornell University . He has conducted research in social psychology , decision making , behavioral economics . He is also the author of the book, The Wisest One in the Room: How You Can Benefit from Social Psychology's Most Powerful Insights . What you will learn in this episode:   The difference...

For many years, there has been the assumption that anything related to people inside of an organization is only the responsibility of HR. HR does the recruiting, hiring, firing, benefits, compensation, policies, and all the people-related tasks. I'm not saying that as a leader you need to do all of these things. But as a leader, you are ultimately responsible for your people. And that is very much...

Navi Radjou is an Indian-born scholar and an innovation and leadership advisor based in Silicon Valley. He is a Fellow of Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and has spoken and written widely on the theme of frugal innovation. He has also co-authored the global bestseller Jugaad Innovation and From Smart To Wise. His TED talk on frugal innovation has garnered nearly 2 million vide...

Do you know how to increase your productivity? According to Dan Pink, author of When, you have to understand the three stages of your day. We all go through these stages at different times, but the stages themselves are consistent: Peak, Trough, and Recovery. The peak is when you have energy, when you're ready to go and you can accomplish anything. This is the time to work on your tough tasks. The...

Daniel Coyle is a New York Times best-selling author. He wrote various books: The Talent Code and The Little Book of Talent , which focuses on a person's potential for greatness, and The Culture Code , which is all about Culture. He has recently released a new book entitled The Culture Playbook , a supplementary book to The Culture Code . Daniel wondered how culture was made, and he thought it mig...

Christopher "Chris" Voss is an American businessman, author, and academic. Chris is a former FBI hostage negotiator, The Black Swan Group Ltd CEO in East Grinsted, England, and co-author of Never Split the Difference . He is an adjunct professor at Harvard Law School, the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, and a lecturer at the University of Southern California's Marshall Schoo...

I never liked the phrase soft skills. To me, it implies that things like communication, empathy, self awareness, and emotional intelligence are less valuable and less tangible than things like reading, math, and science. Many leaders and HR professionals actually agree that soft skills are more important now than these traditional hard skills. It's these human soft skills that ultimately distingui...

Carlos Gutierrez is the Chairman, and CEO at EmPath . EmPath uses machine learning to solve a problem that the corporate world has been trying to solve for at least 20 years, and that is to identify the skills of every employee. Identify the skills required for every job in the company. Once you have that database of information, the things you can do are endless, and the kind of environment you c...

What is the most dangerous quality a leader can have? Ego. Having an ego in itself isn't bad. But what hurts a lot of leaders is having an ego that goes unchecked. As you grow and excel in your career, you're going to get more power, authority, responsibility, and money. And as that happens, it's only natural that your ego is going to grow. As a result, you start to think that your ideas are bette...

Daniel Pink is the author of several books about work, creativity, and the human condition. His books include the long-running New York Times bestsellers When and A Whole New Mind and the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human . His books have won multiple awards, have been translated into 42 languages, and have sold millions of copies around the world How does learning to addres...

Across all my years of research and hundreds of CEO interviews, the need to provide purpose and meaning keeps coming up, but these two things aren't the same!  Today's employees want to have meaning behind their jobs and work for purpose-driven leaders. They'll even take a lower-paying job that delivers purpose and meaning. I put together all of my best research and takeaways into an interactive w...

Stephen Richards Covey was a well-known nonfiction author in the United States. He was a multi talented individual known for his accomplishments as a successful businessman, educator, and public speaker. He is credited with writing The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, one of the most important business books of the twentieth century. What are Stephen's current opinions on managing and lead...

When researching organizations for my book, The Employee Experience Advantage, my goal was to explore what employee experience is, what the world's top companies are doing, how to create frameworks that others can follow, and what the ROI of investing in employee experience is. After all of my research, I found the ROI of investing in employee experience is significant and translates into higher p...

Kim Scott, the New York Bestselling Author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity and Co-Founder of Candor, Inc. She's giving her take on why there are so many bad bosses, or at least the perception of so many bad bosses, today.  Today we are talking about Kim's new book and how Radical Candor can make you a better leader at work and in life. During our conversation Kim...

Boundaries are only as good as your ability to communicate them. It's great for you to know what your boundaries are, but if other people don't know about them, they're kind of useless. It's important to have boundaries and communicate them in a clear way. When communicating, one of the most important things to have is empathy. You don't want to sound rude by saying NO to people. Keep in mind that...