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- Corporate Humanity: Margaret HeffernenMARGARET 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.
Her third book, Wilful Blindness was a finalist for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book award. In 2014, the Financial Times named it one of its "best business books of the decade.” Her next book A Bigger Prize won the Transmission Prize. Her most recent book Beyond Measure : The Big Impact of Small Changes was published in 2015. Her TED talks have been seen by over 3 million people.
She is a Trustee of the London Library and sits on the Council of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as well as one the boards of several private companies. Margaret blogs for the Huffington Post in the US and the UK and for Inc.com. and mentors senior and Chief Executives.
57 min - Adam Grant: Originals - How Innovators Achieve Success
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 concept that is both novel and useful. But it doesn't stop there. Originals are people who take the initiative to make their visions a reality."
52 min - Adam Grant: Originals - How Innovators Achieve Success
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 concept that is both novel and useful. But it doesn’t stop there. Originals are people who take the initiative to make their visions a reality."
52 min - Deep Work, Focused Success in a Distracted World: Cal Newport
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.58 min - Deep Work, Focused Success in a Distracted World: Cal Newport
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.58 min - Shawn Achor: Positive Thinking and Performance
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.
58 min - Shawn Achor: Positive Thinking and Performance
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.
58 min - How Netflix Wins with Culture Over Rules: Barbie Graver, NetFlix
Instead of smothering its leaders with policy and process, Netflix empowers its leaders by giving them the freedom and responsibility to make choices. As VP of Talent Barbie Graver explains, Netflix recruits for and drives a culture of creativity and self-discipline with transparency and candid feedback (feedback is a gift) which allows them to scale, innovate and compete in an intensely competitive market.
* Apologies for the snowzilla audio
50 min - How Netflix Wins with Culture Over Rules: Barbie Graver, NetFlix
Instead of smothering its leaders with policy and process, Netflix empowers its leaders by giving them the freedom and responsibility to make choices. As VP of Talent Barbie Graver explains, Netflix recruits for and drives a culture of creativity and self-discipline with transparency and candid feedback (feedback is a gift) which allows them to scale, innovate and compete in an intensely competitive market.
* Apologies for the snowzilla audio
50 min - The Neuroscience of Leadership: Dr. David RockThe science of the brain is taking the guesswork out of leadership and is leading to some surprising, and ultimately more simple, paths to performance. Dr. Rock explains how neuroscience impacts leadership development, performance management and biased thinking. ** We apologize for the Snowzilla impacted audio
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The Gartner Talent Angle podcast is a new and exciting approach to talent management. Every month, we'll talk with those on the forefront of HR innovation — innovators, academics, HR professionals,…
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