The Gartner Talent Angle

*This excerpt was taken from our 2018 interview. Is your organizational structure your Achille's Heel? Former VP at Yahoo and co-author of Exponential Organizations, Salim Ismail, believes that any company designed for success in the 20th century is doomed for failure in the 21st. Hear Salim discuss the lessons that business leaders can learn from the new breed of companies that are scaling 10 times faster than established organizational structures.

The best leaders don't just cope with stress, they repurpose it into happiness. Sean Webb, author of Mind Hacking Happiness, tells us how. On this episode of the Talent Angle, Sean Webb shares how to identify and avoid personal stress triggers to boost happiness and lead through high-stress situations.

*This Spotlight was edited from our hour long interview from 2018. 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 universally known, multi-billion dollar tech giant.

As the holidays approach, we are re-releasing our top podcasts from 2019. Please enjoy our conversation with Steve Denning, author of "The Age of Agile," which argues that even global giants don't have to be born agile in order to be an entrepreneur and deliver more value from less work.

*This Spotlight was edited from out interview in 2018. How can you compete with companies that, combined, have a GDP the size of France, garner the best talent in the world, and accumulate 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 digital age.

Today's rapidly-changing market conditions are challenging our legacy ways of working and upending organizations that were designed for stability. Dave Ulrich, author of Reinventing the Organization, joins the Talent Angle to discuss how progressive companies are looking outward--to their networks, partners, and marketplace--to radically reinvent themselves.

*This Spotlight was edited from out interview in 2017. Everyone knows that timing is everything. But we don't know much about timing itself. Out lives are a never-ending stream of "when" decisions: when to start a business, schedule a class, get serious about a person. In When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, Dan Pink shows that timing is really a science and reveals how to best live, work and succeed through perfect timing.

Zvi Band, author of Success Is in Your Sphere, believes nothing is more powerful than relationships in your professional life. Listen to learn how to establish meaningful personal connections and deepen your relationship with people who will make a difference in your career.

Zvi Band is the co-founder of Contactually, a relationship-centric business that powers millions of relationships, and author of Success Is in Your Sphere: Leverage the Power of Relationships to Achieve Your Business Goals. Beyond his work and writing, Zvi serves as a proponent of entrepreneurship in Washington DC, founding DC Tech Meet Up and advises early-stage startups. He's been named a Finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year and is a three-time Washingtonian Tech Titan. He received his B.S. in Computer Science and Economics from the University of Maryland.

*This Spotlight was edited from our interview in 2017. Why do companies lose their soul, age prematurely and stall out while other sustain profitable growth? Join us to hear Chris Zook, best-selling author of The Founder's Mentality: How to Overcome Predictable Crises of Growth, and partner at Bain & Company, as he discusses how the most successful companies maintain the founder's mentality.

New technologies are fundamentally changing how firms connect with their customers than ever before. Listen to Christian Terwiesch, co-author of Connected Strategy: Building Continuous Customer Relationships for Competitive Advantage, share four pathways to designing a connected strategy that builds continuous relationships with customers, clients and employees.