The Gartner Talent Angle

*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 as we learn how to exercise our reinvention muscles and go from cultivating a network to building a community of followers. 

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 Coca-Cola, discuss the future of HR and the CHRO Global Leadership Board’s work in the first of a four-part series.   https://www.gartner.com/en/human-resources/chro-global-leadership-board

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 can be a catalyst for achieving higher-level outcomes.

*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 understand how business models develop through predictable stages over time -- and then apply that understanding to key decisions. 

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-field ideas, correct their mistakes, and turn half-finished thoughts into the next big thing.

*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 everything from behavioral economics and politics, to advanced medicine and sports. Their work, and its impact, is hardly obscure. Mr. Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics (Mr. Tversky died in 1996.)   

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 affect your organization’s success. Tony's book, The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His previous book, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time, co-authored with Jim Loehr, spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 28 languages. In 2013, Tony launched a biweekly column for the New York Times titled “Life@Work.” Tony is a contributor to numerous publications including The Huffington Post and Harvard Business Review, and for three years, he wrote the most popular blog on HBR.org. He is also a regular contributor to CBS This Morning.

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 both unlock additional business value and expand employment opportunities for disadvantaged young workers.