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...
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 vulner...
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 ...
*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:...
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 a...
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...
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.
*This podcast is excerpted from the full podcast released in 2016. 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....
Imagine an environment where you can bring your whole self to work? Imagine a workplace where great leaders build honest relationships with each of their employees, allowing their employees to know exactly where they stand. Believe it or not, hierarchy discourages honest feedback which leads to dysfunctional relationships and businesses. Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, and Jason Rosoff, CEO of Radical Candor, teach us how to care personally an...
* This 20 Minute Spotlight was edited from our hour long podcast from season 1. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, author of a Team of Teams, discarded a century of conventional wisdom and remade JSOC (Joint Special Operations Command) into a network that combined transparent communication with decentralized decision-making authority. The walls between silos were torn down. This shift has far reaching implications for leadership both inside and outside the military. For more information on the McChrystal ...
Netflix’s Former Chief Talent Officer, Patty McCord, doesn’t believe in Chief Happiness Officers, does not see hard work as enough, and believes HR should simply scrap policies that do not work for them. Patty McCord, author of Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, joins us to discuss her experience as Chief Talent Officer at Netflix and her fringe ideas that led to establishing the multi-billion dollar tech giant everyone knows. From performance reviews to challenging poli...
*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 responsibility for attracting, developing, retaining, and delighting “Googlers.” During his tenure, Google rece...
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 really a science. Drawing on a rich trove of research from psychology, biology, and economics, Pink reveal...
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 design a lesson that he knew his students would remember twenty years later? What if a manager knew h...
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 Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth, and partner at Bain & Company, discusses how the most successf...
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 Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong, references to redefine success. Through exten...
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 the best decisions in our daily work life. Begin living a life today that activates the thinking, in...
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 describes how toxic these behaviors can be to culture, and gives specific tactics we can use to deal wit...
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 with children in order to promote a healthy, profitable organization.
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 components that determine our story: genetics, family relationships, events and experiences, and our...
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 leaders and employees to include characteristics of transparency, inclusivity, collaboration, commu...
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 achieve its goals. He was the former Chief Economist and Director of Product Development at Opportunity@...
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. Later, Fussell takes us through his model of strong leadership and culture: credibility = proven com...
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 their ability to pull together networks of good teams and lead in a fast, efficient manner. Listen t...
“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 scientific grounding in human behavior with a pragmatic approach to solving problems. Her second book, INSIG...
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 Engineering from Stanford. While en route to biomedical engineering, Evans accepted an invitation to ...
