The Gartner Talent Angle

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.

*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 and challenge directly to create a culture of honest feedback in order to love your work. Kim and Jason walk us through ways in which you can adopt the basic principles of Radical Candor to become a great leader.

*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 Group go to McChrystalgroup.com

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 policies, Patty joins the Talent Angle on this episode to share insight on equity in the workplace, how to make HR a strategic function, and ultimately how to build employees who are proud of the company they come from.

*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 received over 100 awards as an employer of choice. He told us about non-stop recruiting, improving training while cutting costs, and a very simple management rule. At the center of it all is an employee with power—and responsibility.

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 reveals how best to live, work, and succeed. How can we use the hidden patterns of the day to build the ideal schedule? Why do certain breaks dramatically improve student test scores? How can we turn a stumbling beginning into a fresh start? Why should we avoid going to the hospital in the afternoon? Why is singing in time with other people as good for you as exercise? And what is the ideal time to quit a job, switch careers, or get married?

In When, Pink distills cutting-edge research and data on timing and synthesizes them into a fascinating, readable narrative packed with irresistible stories and practical takeaways that give readers compelling insights into how we can live richer, more engaged lives.