Ceb Talent Angle With Scott Engler

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 differently,and also the preparation practices that enable people to grow to their potential. * Roselinde Torres is a senior leader in the People & Organization practice at The Boston Consulting Group and has served as the first global head of BCG’s leadership topic. In addition, she has been a member of the firm’s Americas Leadership team.  

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 initiative--whether a simple project or a grand, gutsy gamble.  

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 organizations don’t merely act differently.  

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. 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 th

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."

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.

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

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

The 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     Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neuroleadershipinstitute  Twitter: https://twitter.com/neuroleadership LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/neuroleadership-institute    

Learn the key factors that allow anyone to be a power social networker.  Work has become a collaborative endeavor accomplished less through standardized processes and formal structures than through informal networks of relationships. But harnessing the power of these seemingly invisible groups to achieve organizational goals isa murky and elusive undertaking. Rob Cross argues that rather than think about collaboration from a more-is-better perspective, executives need to take a clear-eyed, strategic view. They need to determine exactly what they want to accomplish through informal networks and,concurrently, what pattern and level of connectivity would best help them achieve their goals. It’s crucial for executives to learn how to promote connectivity only where it benefits an organization or individual—as well as learn how to decrease connectivity that isn’t needed.  

Susan Cain believes that the rise of introverts is the next big trend that will impact leadership. Yet while introverts often prove to be more effective leaders they are less likely to be selected for leadership.  Cain explains why we dramatically undervalue introverts and how we lose in doing so.  She also explores how companies can get the most out of introverts, how introverts can think about themselves differently, and why now is the time for introverts in business.  For more information about Susan and the Quiet Leadership Institute go to QuietRev.com.

Are millennials more entitled or are we offering them a bad deal?  Best-selling author and thought leader Dan Pink, (To Sell is Human, Drive and A Whole New Mind) shares a counterintuitive perspective on the new employment bargain, motivation and how the corporate world might be missing the boat with millennials and losing in the process.  In addition to his provocative thoughts on the new career bargain, Dan takes us on a tour through his creative process and his bestselling books to understand the roots of human (and employee) motivation and effectiveness.

Zappos made history when it announced plans to transition to a holacracy -- a management-free corporate structure. Holacracy is a new way of running an organization that removes power from a management hierarchy and distributes it across clear roles, which can then be executed autonomously, without a micromanaging boss.  Tune in as Hollie details the pitfalls, successes, and lessons learned. 

Gen. Stanley McChrystal 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