The Gartner Talent Angle

*This podcast was excerpted from our hour long conversation with Lazlo in season 2. Laszlo Bock believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy.   After working at McKinsey and General Electric (GE), Laszlo Bock spent 10 years as Google's senior vice president of People Operations, with responsib...

How can you compete with companies that, combined, have a GDP the size of France, garner the best talent in the world, are controlling the gateways and are accumately 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 internet age. 

Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Our lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. Yet we make those decisions based on intuition and guesswork. Timing, it's often assumed, is an art. In  When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing , Pink shows that timing is reall...

Why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. What if a teacher could d...

85% of breakdowns in companies are traceable to internal root causes. Only 13% of people working in business in North America feel any connection to their company's purpose. These surprising statistics lead us to ask, why do some companies lose their soul, age prematurely, and stall out while others sustain profitable growth? Chris Zook, best-selling author of The Founder's Mentality: How to Overc...

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 bestseller Barking Up The Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Wh...

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 momentum, and exterminate negative feelings in order to make...

Nobody likes to work with a jerk. But what if YOU are one? We talk with Bob Sutton, professor of organizational behavior at Stanford University and author of the newly released A**hole Survival Guide: How to Deal with People that Treat you Like Dirt.   We talk to Bob about "jerky behaviors" that result from being in a hurry, use of social media, being in a position of power, and exhaustion. Bob de...

Play keeps us in the moment. It is unpredictable and fun, and it keeps the attention of people. So why not play in the workplace? We talk to Elizabeth Cushing, the President and COO of Playworks, an organization that works with children in elementary schools to play in a socially and emotionally intelligent way. In this episode, Elizabeth shares how to use play tactics like her organization uses w...

We don't talk about love in the workplace. But what if we told you the best leaders are realizing the importance of self-awareness, love, and "going deep" in order to be a great leader? Bob Rosen, global CEO advisor, organizational psychologist, and bestselling author talks to us about how the best people "go deep" within themselves to determine their story. In this episode we talk about the four...

Culture is increasingly becoming a pivotal part of organizational strategy. Red Hat is one company that uses their culture of open decision making as a strategic advantage for their business,where they use an open source framework to make decisions in the organization. Join us as we talk to Red Hat Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer DeLisa Alexander about how Red Hat works with both...

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 companies to use predictive and prescriptive analytics to help the business achi...

How does naked leadership lead to better decision making? Chris Fussell, former Navy SEAL Officer and Partner at McChrystal Group, talks to us about "naked leadership," and how he worked in the military with senior leaders to expose themselves to uncertainty on a daily basis. We then dive into techniques that retain the strength of bureaucracy, while moving at the speed of decentralized networks....

What if Eisenhower wasn't the genius we thought he was? Chris Fussell, former Navy SEAL Officer and Partner at McChrystal Group, talks to us about the "leader myth," and how we often aggrandize leaders of a successful project or mission. With Chris, we dive into some of these misconceptions, and how the characteristics that make a great leader may not be the leader's individual genius, but rather...

"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 reputation as a fresh, modern voice in the business world by pairing her scientif...

Learn how to design your life through the same techniques that innovators use to design products and new technology. Dave Evans, Stanford Lecturer and New York Times best-selling co-author of Designing Your Life, talks to us about following your passions in life, and how you can design a process to figure out what will ultimately make you satisfied and happy. Dave holds a BS and MS in Mechanical E...

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 Reinventing You and Stand Out , takes us through the steps to reinvent, rebrand, and stand out in a world of increasing competition. Listen as we learn how to exercise our reinvention muscle and go from cultivating a ne...

Is it good business to be good people? Venture capitalist Anthony Tjan, author of Good People ,  talks to us about the strategic advantage of hiring good people – those that are committed to continuously cultivating the values that help them and others become the fullest versions of who they are. Real value creation, Tony argues, comes from real enduring cultures that focus on people, rather than...

Your Ego has an enormous impact on your sense of purpose and culture. In moments of crisis or challenge, we often feel our success threatened in some way, or we feel threatened by the conflict with the other person. These situations tend to bring out our coping strategies and our reactive behaviors.  These reactive behaviors tend to ricochet off each other like a pinball machine and start to kill...

Eleven key lessons on what the future holds for talent. The second of a two part series with future-casting from: General Stanley McChrystal –   What do you think it is ten years from now, what's the next thing that corporations, the military, any entity that has multiple layers has to look at   Shawn Achor –   In terms of social relationships, what do you think a future full of people who grew up...

What anyone desires most is to be understood and respected. Chris Voss shares techniques that work in the boardroom every bit as well as across the high stakes world of hostage negotiations. Kidnappers, however ill-intentioned, are prone to the same human reasoning as the rest of us.

Laszlo Bock believes that giving people freedom and supplementing our instincts with hard science are steps on the path to making work meaningful and people happy. Laszlo joins the Talent Angle to discuss the seminal importance of recruiting, rethinking engagement, creating transparent workplaces, fostering feedback, and so much more.   

Eleven key lessons on what the future holds for talent. The first of a two part series with future-casting from: Stanley McChrystal: Changing the Way We Lead – View in iTunes Shawn Achor: Positive Thinking and Performance – View in iTunes Dan Pink: The Roots of Motivation - The roots of human motivation and effectiveness… and what it means for millennials - View in iTunes Corporate Humanity: Marga...

We repeatedly and predictably make wrong decisions throughout, and in many aspects, of our lives. Dan Ariely wants to make the concepts of behavioral economics more accessible by describing them in non-academic terms so that more people will learn about this type of research and get excited about using some of the insights to enrich their own lives. Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Psy...

Nancy Duarte believes that ideas are the most powerful tools people have. Her passion is to help every person learn to communicate their world-changing idea effectively. Nancy Duarte is an expert in presentation design and principal of Duarte Design, where she has served as CEO for 21 years. Nancy speaks around the world, seeking to improve the power of public presentations. She is the author of ...