The Gartner Talent Angle

Ten key lessons on personal performance and leadership from:  Extreme Potential: Dr. Andy Walshe, Red Bull High Performance -  View in iTunes Focus on What Matters: Mark Manson - (and stop caring about the unimportant) -  View in iTunes The Power of Culture and Story: Jonah Berger, Wharton - Author of Invisible Influence and Contagious -  View in iTunes How to Make Better Decisions: Nobel Prize Wi...

Voices from Walmart ,  The Rockefeller Foundation , and The White House discuss innovations to harness untapped talent on the latest episode of The CEB Talent Angle. 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 both unlock additional...

We asked 10 podcast guests, "if you had one message for executives, what would it be?"  Listen to the most important ideas on team leadership from Gen. Stan McChrystal, Shawn Achor, Roselinde Torres, Susan Cain, Susan David, Microsoft, Netflix, Zappos, Dan Frawley, Bill Von Hipple Here are the podcasts they're taken from: Emotional Agility and Leadership: Susan David -  View in iTunes How Microsof...

Evolutionary psychologist Bill Von Hippel shares a fascinating look at why our tribal past dictates our present day success.   He explores how to use social situations to achieve innovation and why some of us struggle in social situations, while others make even the most awkward encounters flow seamlessly. Bill von Hippel is Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia. He se...

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 award-winning Psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and co-founder an...

Dr. Andy Walshe has possibly the coolest job in the world.  He helps Red Bull's extreme athletes skydive from 25 miles up in space, surf 90 foot waves and concentrate for hours of racing at 200 mph.  And he's come to some eye opening conclusions, among them self-compassion is crucial to elite performance and that business executives need frighteningly similar instruction as elite athletes. He gain...

Mark believes that finding something important and meaningful in your life is the most productive use of your time and energy and that living a good life is about giving a $%@ only about the things that align with your personal values. Every life has problems associated with it and finding meaning in your life will help you sustain the effort needed to overcome the problems you face. 

Jonah Berger is on to us.  We're social creatures that, almost robotically, respond to cues and narratives.  His work on Contagious and Invisible Influence gets to the heart of why some ideas and products go viral and others don't and how to uncover hidden "influence hacks" that shape culture and drive behavior.     

Derek Van Bever, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School, talks with CEB 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 understand how business models develop through predictable stages over tim...

As the Chief People Officer at Microsoft, Kathleen Hogan is responsible for the company's cultural transformation.  She joins us to talk about how Microsoft is using a technique called "Screening In" to drive cultural change through diversity.   Hogan is new to the HR function, but not to talent management. Previously she was vice president of Microsoft Services, a team dedicated to helping busine...

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 everything from behavioral economics and politics, to advanced medi...

Dan Frawley leads CEB Ventures, a program designed to uncover the bleeding edge of Tech and how it impacts our decisions on talent and operations.  He's interviewed over 200 companies to identify the latest trends and pathways to the future.  He joins the CEB Talent Angle to share his perspective on HR Tech and what it means for companies and the HR function.   Previously, Mr. Frawley served as th...

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 affect your organization's success. Tony's most recent book, The Way...

Peter Shankman, a pioneer in modern PR, marketing, advertising, social media, and customer service, profiles the famously nice executives, entrepreneurs, and companies that are setting the standard for success in this new collaborative world. He explores the new hallmarks of effective leadership, including loyalty, optimism, humility, and a reverence for customer service, and shows how leaders lik...

Fifty-eight percent of the companies cited significant talent gaps for critical leadership roles. That means that despite corporate training programs, off-sites, assessments, coaching, all of these things, more than half the companies had failed to grow enough great leaders. You may be asking yourself, is my company helping me to prepare to be a great 21st-century leader? The odds are, probably no...

Companies can't survive without innovating, but most put far more emphasis on generating "Big Ideas" instead of executing them--turning ideas into actual breakthrough products, services, and process improvements. That's because "ideating" is energizing and glamorous. By contrast, execution seems like humdrum, behind-the-scenes dirty work. But without execution, Big Ideas go nowhere. In "The Other...

Smarter Faster Better  identifies eight key productivity concepts—from motivation and goal setting to focus and decision making—that explain why some people and companies get so much done. Drawing on the latest findings in neuroscience, psychology, and behavioral economics—as well as the experiences of CEOs, educational reformers, four-star generals, FBI agents, airplane pilots, and Broadway songw...

MARGARET HEFFERNAN is a corporate advisor, humanist and sometimes organizational anarchist. An entrepreneur, Chief Executive and author she was born in Texas, raised in Holland and educated at Cambridge University. She worked in BBC Radio for five years where she wrote, directed, produced and commissioned dozens of documentaries and dramas. She's done fascinating work investigating corporate failu...

According to Bestselling Author Adam Grant,innovation isn't rooted in the brilliance of one great idea,instead originality stems from a culture that encourages challenging the norm, allows for testing of unpopular ideas in the face of group think and manages risk to allow true winners to shine.  "Originality involves introducing andadvancing an idea that's relatively unusual within a particular do...

How can we screen out the chaos to make work more satisfying, productive, and meaningful?  Cal Newport, author of Deep Work, joins us to share the tools and rules for deep, meaningful work.    Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. Yet, Most people have lost the ability to go deep-spending their days instead in a frantic blur of e-mail and social med...

One of the world's leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. His research on mindset made the cover of  Harvard Business Review , his  TED talk  is one of the most popular of all time with over 11 million views, and his lecture airing on PBS has been seen by millions. Shawn has lectured or worked with over a third of the Fortune 100 companies, as well as the NFL, the NBA, th...

Instead of smothering its leaders with policy and process, Netflix empowers its leaders by giving them the freedom and responsibility to make choices. As VP of Talent Barbie Graver explains, Netflix recruits for and drives a culture of creativity and self-discipline with transparency and candid feedback (feedback is a gift) which allows them to scale, innovate and compete in an intensely competiti...

The science of the brain is taking the guesswork out of leadership and is leading to some surprising, and ultimately more simple, paths to performance. Dr. Rock explains how neuroscience impacts leadership development, performance management and biased thinking.  ** We apologize for the Snowzilla impacted audio     Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/neuroleadershipinstitute   Twitter:  https://tw...

Learn the key factors that allow anyone to be a power social networker.  Work has become a collaborative endeavor accomplished less through standardized processes and formal structures than through informal networks of relationships. But harnessing the power of these seemingly invisible groups to achieve organizational goals isa murky and elusive undertaking. Rob Cross argues that rather than thin...

Susan Cain believes that the rise of introverts is the next big trend that will impact leadership. Yet while introverts often prove to be more effective leaders they are less likely to be selected for leadership.  Cain explains why we dramatically undervalue introverts and how we lose in doing so.  She also explores how companies can get the most out of introverts, how introverts can think about t...