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 network to building a community of followers. Dorie Clark is an Adjunct Professor of Business Administ...
May 02, 2017•55 min•Season 2Ep. 37
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 relying solely on metrics and outputs that have traditionally guided business decisions. Anthony Tjan...
Apr 18, 2017•1 hr•Season 2Ep. 36
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 culture. Shayne Hughes has taught leadership at the University of California Haas School of Business,...
Apr 04, 2017•56 min•Season 2Ep. 35
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 with connective technology looks like? Dan Pink – What’s the workforce going to look different in ten yea...
Mar 28, 2017•14 min•Season 2Ep. 34
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.
Mar 21, 2017•1 hr 4 min•Season 2Ep. 33
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.
Mar 07, 2017•49 min•Season 2Ep. 32
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: Margaret Heffernan – View in iTunes Adam Grant: Originals – How Innovators Achieve Success – View in iTun...
Feb 21, 2017•16 min•Season 2Ep. 31
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 Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University and a founding member of the Center for Advanced...
Feb 14, 2017•43 min•Season 2Ep. 30
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 ...
Jan 31, 2017•57 min•Season 2Ep. 29
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 Winner Daniel Kahnamen - The illusion of intuition and how to use it to your advantage - View in iTunes Ma...
Jan 19, 2017•18 min•Season 2Ep. 28
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 business value and expand employment opportunities for disadvantaged young workers....
Jan 12, 2017•1 hr 12 min•Season 2Ep. 27
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 Microsoft "Screens-In" Culture Change: Kathleen Hogan - Powering Microsoft Through Culture - View in iTunes Th...
Jan 03, 2017•19 min•Season 2Ep. 26
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 serves on the editorial board of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Social Psychological and Pe...
Dec 20, 2016•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 25
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 and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, Dr. Susan David talks with us about h...
Dec 06, 2016•54 min•Season 1Ep. 24
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 gains that unique 5-mile high perspective by working with hundreds of international athletes, supervising ...
Nov 22, 2016•54 min•Season 1Ep. 23
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.
Nov 08, 2016•52 min•Season 1Ep. 22
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.
Oct 22, 2016•43 min•Season 1Ep. 21
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 time — and then apply that understanding to key decisions.
Sep 23, 2016•49 min•Season 1Ep. 20
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 businesses and consumers maximize the value of their investment in Microsoft technologies. Hogan has also ser...
Sep 13, 2016•42 min•Season 1Ep. 19
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 Priz...
Aug 13, 2016•50 min•Season 1Ep. 18
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 the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of CEB Iconoculture, Inc., since December 2002 and June ...
Aug 05, 2016•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 17
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 We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance , was a New Yo...
Jul 15, 2016•54 min•Season 1Ep. 16
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 like Jet Blue's Dave Needleman, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, Steve Jobs of Apple, Ken Chenault of Amex, Indra ...
Jun 29, 2016•36 min•Season 1Ep. 15
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 not. Roselinde Torres distills down the characteristics of leaders who are thriving and what they do d...
Jun 16, 2016•51 min•Season 1Ep. 14
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 Side of Innovation," Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble reveal how to execute an innovation initia...
Jun 01, 2016•40 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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 songwriters—this painstakingly researched book explains that the most productive people, companies, and or...
May 23, 2016•45 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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 failure and success. She has a keen eye for understanding how culture impacts behavior both good and bad....
May 04, 2016•56 min•Season 1Ep. 11
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 domain,and that hast he potential to improve it. Originality itself starts with creativity:generating a...
Apr 19, 2016•51 min•Season 1Ep. 10
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 media, not even realizing there's a better way....
Apr 07, 2016•57 min•Season 1Ep. 9
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 ...
Mar 17, 2016•58 min•Season 1Ep. 8
