Future Ready Leadership With Jacob Morgan

Mike Sarraille is a retired U.S. Navy SEAL officer and a former enlisted Recon Marine and Scout-Sniper. He is also the founder and CEO of Talent War Group, a specialized executive search firm, and talent advisory that finds high-performing business leaders for senior, executive, or other critical leadership positions. What is the application of Military Leadership Development in the business setti...

Technology is changing all of the time, so it's best to conduct technology audits in your organization on a yearly basis. Take a step back and look at the ways in which you're working and where technology might be able to play a role. Identify the bottlenecks and challenges you see. If you start using new technologies inside your company, it's important to collect data on the progress. Are employe...

Since 2016, Dashun Wang has been an Associate Professor of Management and Organizations at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and McCormick School of Engineering. He has been the Founding Director of the Center for Science of Science and Innovation at Kellogg since 2019. What are Dashun's thoughts about Hot Streak? Does everyone ever experience this phenomenon? What are the fac...

Every employee inside of your organization has something to offer regardless of the generation they're from or the stage of life they are in. This is why mentoring can flow both ways, with younger employees mentoring older employees or with older employees mentoring younger employees. In the old days, we always had the older and more experienced people mentor younger people. But in this new world...

Steve Murphy is the CEO of Epicor Software Corporation. It focuses on selling supply chains. Growing up, he was good at fixing, so he ended up liking building, fixing, and repairing things. Aside from that, it is also why he was influenced into taking Mechanical Engineering as a degree. Like many others, Steve didn't begin as a CEO immediately, and he has worked his way up to who he is today. This...

Complaining and speaking up are not the same thing! Everyone should be comfortable with speaking up at work. The first reason to speak up at work is to share an opinion about something. Chances are, you were hired because they like what you bring to the table--your opinion, unique perspective, and the things you care about. Have an opinion and share it, but do so in a tactful way that doesn't put...

Jeffrey Katz is the former CEO of Swissair and a former president of SABRE. He is also the founding CEO of Orbitz. Before rising to the top, Jeff went into various industries in American Airlines. He worked his way to the top from being in management, finance, marketing, sales, and even customer service. He started from the bottom, and now, he has achieved so much more. How did Jeff handle the cha...

Most of the time, we're focused on what is right in front of us, especially with our careers. But we need to pay attention to the tangentials. That means opening up a bit to notice the things on the sides related to our main focus. For example, let's say you are in finance. If you're someone who is paying attention to the tangentials, you would probably notice that there are a lot of conversations...

David Novak is the former CEO and founder of Yum! Brands, the company behind Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, & KFC. When David was CEO he took the company from $4 billion to $32 billion. Harvard Business Review calls him one of the 100 best performing CEOs in the world. In today's episode, we will talk about David's leadership journey and some of the things he learned along the way, why vulnerability is cru...

Do you need to be an executive at a company to be a leader? No, you don't. Leading others is a choice. It's not about your title. There are plenty of people who have senior executive titles but are terrible leaders. And similarly, there are lots of other people who don't have executive titles but are amazing leaders. Being a leader is about influencing change. It's about motivating, engaging, empo...

Ori Brafman is a teaching fellow at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a New York Times best-selling author. He has written a total of 5 books, namely the following: 'Radical Inclusion,' 'The Starfish and the Spider,' 'Sway: The Irresistible Pull of Irrational Behavior,' 'Click: The Power of Instant Connections,' and 'The Chaos Imperative.' Ori would be sharing with us all about two of his...

We've never invested more time, more money, or more resources into employee engagement programs. We spend billions of dollars every year, but around the world, employee engagement scores aren't improving. Why? Because it's the employee experience that creates an engaged workforce. And an engaged workforce impacts ROI. If you want to have an engaged workforce, start by investing in the experience o...

Joe Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice and co-leader of the Managing the Future of Work Initiative at Harvard Business School. He founded the global consulting firm Monitor Group, now Monitor-Deloitte. He has deep experience in industries with heavy reliance on technology such as life, sciences, ICT, defense, and aerospace. Joe believes that the overall workforce lacks skills, which is w...

The world of work is constantly changing. Skills and mindsets that were long considered to be in the future are gaining steam now. To stay relevant, future employees need to cover these seven principles: ✈Has a flexible work environment. Employees of the future will have the freedom to work when and where they want. ✈Can customize their own work. Future employees will be able to shape their career...

Sinan Aral is a professor at MIT who focuses on Management, Marketing, and Data Science. He is also the director of the MIT initiative on digital technology. According to him, the best way to describe him is a Data Nerd Scientist with experience building businesses. In today's episode, Sinan Aral discusses his journey to reach what he has now and discusses his book "The Hype Machine." Tune in and...

Sam Walton, founder of Walmart, passed away in 1992, but the company he created is still one of the world's largest employers today. In many ways, the impact of his leadership is still felt today. Sam's leadership lessons can guide us today in 2021 as much as they did many many decades ago. Here are three things Sam did that you as a leader should do as well: 1. Ask questions. Sam was considered a...

Glenn Fogel is the Chief Executive Officer and President of Booking Holdings and Chief Executive Officer of Booking.com, which he has held since January 2017 and June 2019, respectively. Before his current roles, Glenn served as Booking Holdings' Head of Worldwide Strategy and Planning, where he led major strategic initiatives, including the critical acquisitions of Booking.com, KAYAK, OpenTable,...

We live in a connected world where everybody's trying to stand out and make their voice heard. This can make it feel like you are just a drop in an ocean. So how can you possibly get noticed? If you want to learn and grow and have your voice get heard, here are five things you can do: 1. Speak up in meetings. Be confident that you were invited there for a reason to contribute something and not jus...

Lara Abrash oversees all aspects of the organization as the US Audit & Assurance business leader, including the execution of quality, innovation, growth, and talent strategies. She is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization that empowers our professionals to act boldly, embrace an entrepreneurial mindset, share knowledge, tackle complex issues creatively, and drive disruption th...

Around a thousand years ago, a mathematician and inventor named Sissa created chess. He showed it to the ruler of the land, who was so impressed that he offered Sissa any reward he wanted. Sissa said, "I would like you to put one grain of rice on this chessboard and then keep double the amount of grain for each subsequent square." The ruler quickly agreed and told his advisors to figure out how mu...

Chip Heath is a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and New York Times best selling author of the Switch and Made to Stick . He has a new book out called Making Numbers Count ; The art and science of communicating numbers. Chip has worked with various clients, including Google, Gap, The Nature Conservancy, and the American Heart Association. Today, we are talking about his new bo...

Magnus Carlsen is the current world chess champion. He is considered the greatest chess champion to ever live. What makes Magnus Carlsen great is his ability to think outside of chess principles and conventional ideas. He challenges traditional chess wisdom. When in positions where it looks like he's lost, he somehow finds a way to save the game. He does this because he can see things other people...

Jacques van den Broek is the global CEO of the internationally acclaimed Dutch multinational human resources consulting firm Randstad. Randstad has been known globally for helping people secure jobs even in this ever-changing world. With the rapid rise of technological advancements, jobs have become less available for people as it is now slowly being replaced with Artificial Intelligence. What are...

Today, there's noise and distractions all over the place. Being able to stand out and clearly share our ideas, points of view, and perspectives has never been more important. Without strong communication skills, a great proposal might get lost in the shuffle, an amazing candidate might not get hired for an organization, or a brilliant idea might never be heard. Think about how much information and...

Sheryl Palmer is the CEO of Taylor Morrison, a National Homebuilder and Land Developer who dares to challenge the status quo. Taylor Morrison's reputation is something one should never underestimate. From holding the title of America's Most Trusted Home Builder by Lifestory Research for six years running, recognized by Fortune Magazine as World's Most Admired Companies and Glassdoor's Best Places...