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Is great leadership a myth? General Stan McChrystal, co-author of Leaders: Myth and Reality , joins the Talent Angle to debunk the many myths that surround the concept of leadership. Drawing from the examples set by history's most renowned leaders, Stan believes the lessons we commonly draw from their lives are seldom the correct ones. Listen to this episode to learn more about how true leadership...

Disruptive technologies have upended existing business operating models, are threatening jobs at unprecedented pace and scale, and are bringing whole industries into question. All of this change is creating a new social contract between employers and employees. Listen to Abbe Luersman, the CHRO for Ahold Delhaize and a member of Gartner's CHRO Global Leadership Board, discuss how organizations can...

Rapid business model disruption, AI, expiring skills, new to world skills, changing customer preferences and transparent job markets have broken the talent model companies have operated under for decades.  Using millions of data points from TalentNeuron, Gartner VP and Workforce Futuring Evangelist Scott Engler shares how these changes have upended the way companies plan and recruit and how forwar...

It's not easy to deliver more value from less work. Steve Denning, author of the "The Age of Agile", argues that even global giants such as Barclays don't have to be born agile in order to act entrepreneurially. Listen to this episode of the Talent Angle to understand how organizations can harness the power of their teams, customers, and networks to ultimately deliver value on a larger scale than...

What if everything you've been taught about management is wrong? Aaron Dignan, author of Brave New Work , believes that our organizations are broken not by our people or their leaders, but by operating systems such as hierarchy and compliance. Listen to this episode of the Talent Angle to learn how to reinvent the way work gets done at your organization through a groundswell of autonomy, trust, an...

*This 20 Minute Spotlight was edited from our one-hour interview in 2017. Many people have ideas, but only a few stand out and make their mark. What differentiates those that are successful from those that fail? Dorie Clark, branding expert and author of both Reinventing You and Stand Out, takes us through the steps to reinvent, rebrand, and stand out in a world of increasing competition. LIsten a...

How do we develop talent to prepare for an uncertain future? How can HR evolve to influence organizational strategy? These are the kinds of critical questions that Gartner's CHRO Global Leadership Board--a network of HR executives from some of the world's leading companies--has set out to answer. Tune in to hear Ceree Eberly, Chair of the CHRO Leadership Board and former Chief People Officer at Co...

Is great leadership a myth? General Stan McChrystal, co-author of Leaders: Myth and Reality , joins the Talent Angle to debunk the many myths that surround the concept of leadership. Drawing from the examples set by history's most renowned leaders, Stan believes the lessons we commonly draw from their lives are seldom the correct ones. Listen to this episode to learn more about how true leadership...

*This interview was excerpted from our one-hour interview in 2016. Derek Van Bever, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School, talks with Gartner 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 und...

Do your employees feel safe asking questions or admitting their mistakes in the workplace? Tune in to this episode to hear Amy Edmondson - Harvard Business School Professor and author of The Fearless Organization - share how psychological safety in the workplace is critical for fostering employee performance and innovation and creating a culture where talent can feel safe to express their left-fie...

*This interview was excerpted from our one-hour interview in 2016. Daniel 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...

The world is changing faster and faster and the only way to thrive is to accept the inevitability of change. Blitzscaling is all about rapidly growing and scaling a business or product in the face of uncertainty. Listen to Chris Yeh discuss the techniques that digital companies like Google, Linkedin and Facebook use to scale and double in size in a short period of time.

*This interview was excerpted from our one-hour interview in 2017. Tony 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 af...

Humankind is on the brink of an unprecedented technological transformation, and people and organizations that prepare properly have a massive opportunity ahead of them. Listen to Peter Hinssen, business school lecturer, futurist, and author of The Day After Tomorrow as he discusses the technological changes that will fundamentally change how we work, how we live, and how we relate to each other.

*This interview was excerpted from our one-hour interview in 2017.   Voices from Walmart, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The White House discuss innovations to harness untapped talent. In this episode, we dive into how employers like Walmart are working to find more successful matches for entry-level positions from the youth talent pool by encouraging data-driven employment strategies that can bo...

Growing your business is harder to accomplish than ever before. Repeatable, reliable growth depends on your capacity for making the right choices in the right sequence in the right context. Tiffani Bova joins the Talent Angle podcast to discuss how successful companies achieved growth by choosing their right paths.

*This interview was excerpted from our one-hour interview with Tasha in 2017. "A sprawling exploration of the psychic frailty that leads to self-delusion and self-aggrandizement, and—importantly—a compassionate, helpful guide for avoiding that path (or reversing it)." - Fortune Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, researcher, and New York Times  best-selling author. She's built a re...

Aggressive people can lay a dark cloud of negative energy over any workplace, from the manufacturing line to the boardroom. Listen to this podcast to hear Shawn Smith--a clinical psychologist and the author of Surviving Aggressive People--share time-tested methods for conflict management historically reserved for law enforcement, psychologists, and other professionals working the frontlines of emo...

* This interview was excerpted from our one hour interview with Susan in season 1.  Do 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 a...

Inclusion can be far more than a feel-good sideline. Google's Kat Holmes joins the Talent Angle to show how inclusion can spur innovation, catalyze creativity, and boost the bottom line even as organizations grow. Leaders must address these moments of exclusion - Mismatched interactions - to consciously design an organization where employees are empowered to develop and contribute in meaningful wa...

"Conscious is the new smart" says Dr. Bob Rosen, CEO of Healthy Companies International. The more conscious we are, the faster we adapt and the higher performing we become. Nothing is more important than understanding ourselves, our actions, and our environment. Dr. Bob Rosen joins the Talent Angle to discuss how leaders can thrive in an age of disruption and uncertainty by becoming more aware and...

*This interview is excerpted from our hour long interview with Guru in 2017.  Reconcile how AI, analytics, and machine learning effect humans and the future of talent with Guru Sethupathy, Head of People Analytics at a Fortune 100 company and former engagement manager at McKinsey Global Institute. Guru talks to us about the value of people analytics, and how we can overcome the siloed nature of co...

Being a good leader requires understanding how your actions affect others' motivation and mental state. Christine Comaford, entrepreneur and bestselling author of Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent Times , breaks down the neuroscience of effective leadership to a level that you don't need a Ph. D. to understand.

*This is a 20 minute excerpt from our 2016 conversation with Roselinde Torres Roselinde Torres distills down   the characteristics of leaders who are thriving,  what they do differently  and the  preparation practices that enable people to grow to their potential. Roselinde Torres is a senior leader in the People & Organization practice at The Boston Consulting Group and has served as the first gl...