The Gartner Talent Angle

The power of preventative thinking is one that is underutilized by organizations and individuals alike; a shortcoming which perpetuates reactive, rather than proactive, solutions. This according to Dan Heath, author of Upstream: The Quest to Solve Problems Before They Happen. In his book, Heath makes the case for an upstream mindset — arguing that this approach can effectively surface solutions to...

*This excerpt was taken from out 2018 interview. Are there professional ways to deal with complainers in the workplace? In this episode of the Talent Angle, Will Bowen, author of A Complaint Free World, shares five ways to identify chronic complaining in your work environment and how to silence them with easy-to-remember solutions. 

In this episode of The Talent Angle podcast, Alden Mills, author of Unstoppable Teams: The 4 Essential Actions of High-Performance Leadership , discusses his C.A.R.E.-based leadership framework. Mills shares how HR and business leaders can overcome personal barriers and build teams that are motivated by factors greater than themselves.

*This excerpt was taken from our 2018 interview. Is it possible for businesses to simultaneously drive social impact, innovation, and financial returns all at the same time? More than ever, employees are making their career and purchasing decisions based on a company's purpose and societal impact. In this episode of the Talent Angle, Wendy Woods, Senior Partner and Global Leader of BCG's Social Im...

Conflict resolution can seem like a daunting task, especially when previous attempts  have failed. In this episode of the Talent Angle, Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler, author of Optimal Outcomes: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home and in Life discusses practical approaches to both resolve and free yourself from conflict. By applying these practices, you will not only learn to observe compl...

*This excerpt was taken from our 2018 interview. Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your group, or strengthen a culture that needs fixing? Daniel Coyle, author of The Culture Code, joins the Talent Angle and offers specific strategies to help you trigger learning, spark collaboration, build trust and drive positive change to ultimately unlock the hidden potentia...

Marc Effron, author of 8 Steps to High Performance: Focus on What You Can Change (Ignore the Rest), joins the Talent Angle to discuss how to cut through the noise and boost workplace performance. He shares what behavioral changes and practical steps employees can take to improve performance and deliver outstanding results. 

*This excerpt was taken from our 2018 interview. It's time to stop thinking of your talent in terms of Type A or B personalities. Instead, seek Type Rs -- the individuals that turn challenges into opportunity in times of upheaval, crisis and change. Ama and Stephanie Marston, co-authors of Type R and dynamic mother-daughter team, join the Talent Angle to discuss their concept of Transformative Res...

To prepare for the future, organizations should focus on the prospective workforce currently in or entering college. Bob Moesta joins the Talent Angle to discuss how students "hire" colleges to prepare and qualify them for future jobs, with the majority of graduates, however, leaving unprepared to join the workforce. Tune in to this week's episode to hear how your organization should not only cons...

*This excerpt was taken from our 2018 interview. Annie Duke, author of Thinking in Bets, believes that the key to long-term success is to think in bets. She joins us on the Talent Angle to discuss how business leaders can be more like good poker players: less vulnerable to reactive emotions, knee-jerk biases, and destructive habits in decision-making. 

Expressing employee appreciation has been linked to increases in job satisfaction, engagement and retention, however, gratitude remains vastly underutilized by managers and executives. On this episode of the Talent Angle, Adrian Gostick and Chester Elton offer tips and guidance from their forthcoming book— Leading with Gratitude: Eight Leadership Practices for Extraordinary Business Results —on ho...

As the end of the year approaches, we are re-releasing our top podcasts from 2019. Please enjoy our conversation with Julie Zhuo, VP of Product Design at Facebook, as she reveals practical advice on how managers can help their teams achieve greater outcomes. 

As the holidays approach, we are re-releasing our top podcasts from 2019. Please enjoy our conversation with Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School Professor and author of The Fearless Organization, as she shares how psychological safety in the workplace is critical for fostering employee performance and innovation. 

*This excerpt was taken from our 2018 interview. Is your organizational structure your Achille's Heel? Former VP at Yahoo and co-author of Exponential Organizations, Salim Ismail, believes that any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed for failure in the 21st. Hear Salim discuss the lessons that business leaders can learn from the new breed of companies that are scaling 10 tim...

The best leaders don't just cope with stress, they repurpose it into happiness. Sean Webb, author of Mind Hacking Happiness , tells us how. On this episode of the Talent Angle, Sean Webb shares how to identify and avoid personal stress triggers to boost happiness and lead through high-stress situations.

*This Spotlight was edited from our hour long interview from 2018. Patty McCord, author of Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, joins us to discuss her experience as Chief Talent Officer at Netflix and her fringe ideas that led to establishing the universally known, multi-billion dollar tech giant. 

As the holidays approach, we are re-releasing our top podcasts from 2019. Please enjoy our conversation with Steve Denning, author of "The Age of Agile," which argues that even global giants don't have to be born agile in order to be an entrepreneur and deliver more value from less work. 

*This Spotlight was edited from out interview in 2018. How can you compete with companies that, combined, have a GDP the size of France, garner the best talent in the world, and accumulate vast amounts of data? NYU Stern professor Scott Galloway breaks down the success of The Four and distills how companies need to think differently to compete against the 800 pound gorillas of the digital age. 

Today's rapidly-changing market conditions are challenging our legacy ways of working and upending organizations that were designed for stability. Dave Ulrich, author of Reinventing the Organization , joins the Talent Angle to discuss how progressive companies are looking outward--to their networks, partners, and marketplace--to radically reinvent themselves.

*This Spotlight was edited from out interview in 2017. Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Out lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Dan Pink shows that timing is really a science and reveals how to best live, wo...

Zvi Band, author of Success Is in Your Sphere, believes nothing is more powerful than relationships in your professional life. Listen to learn how to establish meaningful personal connections and deepen your relationship with people who will make a difference in your career. Zvi Band is the co-founder of Contactually, a relationship-centric business that powers millions of relationships, and autho...

*This Spotlight was edited from our interview in 2017. Why do companies lose their soul, age prematurely and stall out while other sustain profitable growth? Join us to hear Chris Zook, best-selling author of The Founder's Mentality: How to Overcome Predictable Crises of Growth, and partner at Bain & Company, as he discusses how the most successful companies maintain the founder's mentality. 

N ew technologies are fundamentally changing how firms connect with their customers than ever before. Listen to Christian Terwiesch, co-author of Connected Strategy: Building Continuous Customer Relationships for Competitive Advantage, share four pathways to designing a connected strategy that builds continuous relationships with customers, clients and employees.

*This Spotlight is an excerpt from our full interview in 2017.  It's usually the rule breakers who turn into millionaire entrepreneurs. Insurance sales people would make successful Navy Seals. Nice guys don't finish last. These are just a few of the latest findings from behavioral science that Eric Barker, founder of the blog  Barking Up The Wrong Tree , and author of The Wall Street Journal bests...

*This Spotlight is an excerpt from our full interview in 2017. What if you could direct your brain? While most believe you are at the mercy of your brain, what if we actually had the ability to control it? Scott Halford, CEO of Complete Intelligence and author of Activate Your Brain: The Neuroscience of Success, discusses how we can activate "brain hacks" to refresh our brain, increase stamina and...