The Gartner Talent Angle

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.

What if your company had no physical office at all? Is maintaining a completely remote workforce even remotely possible? Brian De Haaff, author of Lovability and CEO of Aha!, believes that the remote workforce can function just as well, if not better, than the traditional office workforce. He joins the Talent Angle to discuss how business leaders can drive and sustain high performance from their remote workforce.

How do you motivate a factory worker vs. and artist? Dan Pink explores his own motivation as well as the roots of motivation of humankind in this 20 minute spotlight excerpted from our 50 minute podcast with Dan in 2016. https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/ceb-talent-angle-with-scott-engler/id1066056346?mt=2

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 CEB Talent Angle to discuss their concept of Transformative Resilience. They offer advice on how to identify and develop the talent in your business who not only embrace change and disruption, but also emerge from it in a stronger shape than before.

In Super Bowl XLIX, Seahawks coach Pete Carroll made a risky call with only 26 seconds remaining that lost his team the game. It has since been heralded as the dumbest play in football’s history. Was Carroll’s decision really that bad, or was it a smart move just ruined by bad luck? Annie Duke, author of Thinking in Bets, believes that the key to long-term success is to think in bets. She joins the CEB 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.

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, the Pentagon and the White House.  Shawn is the author of New York Times best-selling books The Happiness Advantage (2010) and Before Happiness (2013).   He has now lectured in more than 50 countries speaking to CEOs in China, doctors in Dubai, schoolchildren in South Africa, and farmers in Zimbabwe. His Happiness Advantage training is one of the largest and most successful positive psychology corporate training program in the world.   Shawn’s research has been published in the top psychology journal for work he did at UBS in partnership with Yale University to transform how stress impacts the body, and he recently did a two-hour interview with Oprah at her house to discuss his mission to bring positive psychology to the world.

*This Spotlight is a 20 minute excerpt from our full interview which is available on Season 2.   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 Slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations as well as Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences and the recent HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations.

What poses the greatest competitive threat to your local church? Conventional wisdom would say other churches, but Bob Moesta, Co-author of The Jobs-to-be-Done Handbook, argues that the largest competitive threat to formalized religion might actually be…Crossfit. Bob Moesta, President and CEO of the Rewired Group and Co-Architect of “Jobs-to-be-Done” theory, joins the CEB Talent Angle to discuss how he helps companies grow by fundamentally understanding how customers shop and why they buy. By adopting the “Jobs-to-be-Done” mindset, Bob believes that business leaders can create innovators across the enterprise and teach them how to turn struggling moments into opportunities for innovation.

Is your organizational structure your Achille’s Heel? Former Vice President at Yahoo, Salim Ismail, believes that any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed for failure in the 21st. Salim Ismail, co-author of Exponential Organizations, joins the Talent Angle to discuss the lessons that business leaders can learn from the new breed of companies that are scaling 10 times faster than established organizational structures. Exponential organizations leverage assets like community, big data, algorithms, and new technology to rethink the way traditional companies scale. Salim suggests ways by which established organizations built for scarcity can disrupt their company’s current null state and usher their business into an age of abundance. 

Joanne Lipman, author of That's What She Said: What Men Need to Know (and Women Need to Tell Them) About Working Together, joins the Talent Angle on this episode to discuss structural advantages that allow men to thrive in the workplace and brings to light the daily adjustments women make to fit in. She spreads awareness of biases that fuel gender inequality at work and tactics to counteract these biases for a more inclusive workplace.