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Ten key lessons on personal performance and leadership from: Extreme Potential: Dr. Andy Walshe, Red Bull High Performance - View in iTunes Focus on What Matters: Mark Manson - (and stop caring about the unimportant) - View in iTunes The Power of Culture and Story: Jonah Berger, Wharton - Author of Invisible Influence and Contagious - View in iTunes How to Make Better Decisions: Nobel Prize Winner Daniel Kahnamen - The illusion of intuition and how to use it to your advantage - View in iTunes Manage Your Energy, Not Your Time: Tony Schwartz - Your Energy is Your Capacity to do Work - View in iTunes Smarter, Faster, Better: Charles Duhigg - Understanding the secrets of productivity - View in iTunes What Great Leaders Do: Roselinde Torres - From CEOs to Tribes, a Journey of Leadership - View in iTunes Deep Work, Focused Success in a Distracted World: Cal Newport - The craftsman's approach to success - View in iTunes The Neuroscience of Leadership: Dr. David Rock - Shaping the Brain's Path to Performance - View in iTunes Dan Pink: The Roots of Motivation - The roots of human motivation and effectiveness… and what it means for millennials - View in iTunes

Voices from Walmart, The Rockefeller Foundation, and The White House discuss innovations to harness untapped talent on the latest episode of The CEB Talent Angle. In this episode, we dive into how employers like Walmart are working to find more successful matches for entry-level positions from the youth talent pool by encouraging data-driven employment strategies that can both unlock additional business value and expand employment opportunities for disadvantaged young workers.

We asked 10 podcast guests, "if you had one message for executives, what would it be?" Listen to the most important ideas on team leadership from Gen. Stan McChrystal, Shawn Achor, Roselinde Torres, Susan Cain, Susan David, Microsoft, Netflix, Zappos, Dan Frawley, Bill Von Hipple Here are the podcasts they're taken from: Emotional Agility and Leadership: Susan David - View in iTunes How Microsoft "Screens-In" Culture Change: Kathleen Hogan - Powering Microsoft Through Culture - View in iTunes The Future of HR Tech: Dan Frawley - Technology is Rapidly Changing Talent Management - View in iTunes Adam Grant: Originals - How Innovators Achieve Success - Grooming Unpopularity to Success - View in iTunes Shawn Achor: Positive Thinking and Performance - Explore the link between happiness and high performance - View in iTunes How Netflix Wins with Culture Over Rules: Barbie Graver, NetFlix - Choosing Freedom and Responsibility over Policy and Process - View in iTunes Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts - Introverts may be the next big trend in business - View in iTunes Why Zappos Broke HR: Hollie Delaney, Zappos - Scaling a Culture - View in iTunes Gen. Stanley McChrystal: Changing the Way We Lead - Creating an adaptable, but aligned organization - View in iTunes

Evolutionary psychologist Bill Von Hippel shares a fascinating look at why our tribal past dictates our present day success. He explores how to use social situations to achieve innovation and why some of us struggle in social situations, while others make even the most awkward encounters flow seamlessly. Bill von Hippel is Professor of Psychology at the University of Queensland, Australia. He serves on the editorial board of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Social Psychological and Personality Science, Social Cognition, and is an associate editor Psychological Science.

Do emotions belong in organizations? In a cultural dialogue focused on happiness and productivity, Dr. Susan David looks at the reality of avoiding emotions in our every day life, and how people who engage in high levels of fake emotions have lower engagement, higher burnout, and lower levels of effectiveness. An award-winning Psychologist on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and co-founder and co-director of the Institute of Coaching at McLean Hospital, Dr. Susan David talks with us about her new book, Emotional Agility. We will look at how we can recognize and harness people's emotions effectively, and how we can use our feelings as both compasses and engines to a more fulfilling life.

Dr. Andy Walshe has possibly the coolest job in the world. He helps Red Bull's extreme athletes skydive from 25 miles up in space, surf 90 foot waves and concentrate for hours of racing at 200 mph. And he's come to some eye opening conclusions, among them self-compassion is crucial to elite performance and that business executives need frighteningly similar instruction as elite athletes. He gains that unique 5-mile high perspective by working with hundreds of international athletes, supervising a team of industry-leading sports scientists, nutritionists, biomechanics experts and sports psychologists; and from all of this he develops models for elite sports performance. As performance manager for Red Bull Stratos, Andy and his team help Felix Baumgartner execute a performance plan by encompassing both physical and psychological readiness, and provide high performance direction and support for the entire mission team. Andy's professional interests are focused on delivering pragmatic solutions to explore all kinds of human potential; he is a consultant for business, sports and military organizations worldwide. With a Ph.D. in Applied Biomechanics (the science of movement) and applied coaching expertise in performance training, the Australian native designed a highly successful performance program for the U.S. Olympic ski and snowboard teams, guiding their athletes to victories on the world stage.

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.

Jonah Berger is on to us. We're social creatures that, almost robotically, respond to cues and narratives. His work on Contagious and Invisible Influence gets to the heart of why some ideas and products go viral and others don't and how to uncover hidden "influence hacks" that shape culture and drive behavior.

Derek Van Bever, Senior Lecturer and Director of the Forum for Growth and Innovation at Harvard Business School, talks with CEB about how to better inform decisions about business model innovation and what it can mean for talent. Many attempts at business model innovation fail. Derek Van Bever argues that executives need to understand how business models develop through predictable stages over time — and then apply that understanding to key decisions.

As the Chief People Officer at Microsoft, Kathleen Hogan is responsible for the company's cultural transformation. She joins us to talk about how Microsoft is using a technique called "Screening In" to drive cultural change through diversity. Hogan is new to the HR function, but not to talent management. Previously she was vice president of Microsoft Services, a team dedicated to helping businesses and consumers maximize the value of their investment in Microsoft technologies. Hogan has also served as corporate vice president of Customer Service and Support, responsible for the strategy and delivery of consumer and commercial technical support and customer service for Microsoft products and services.

Daniel Kahneman's ground-breaking research into decision making and judgment has challenged fundamental beliefs about human nature. In study after study,together with Amos Tversky, he showed that when it comes to making decisions, humans are predisposed to irrationality. Their surprising findings have had profound implications for everything from behavioral economics and politics, to advanced medicine and sports. Their work, and its impact, is hardly obscure. Mr. Kahneman won the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics (Mr. Tversky died in 1996.)

Dan Frawley leads CEB Ventures, a program designed to uncover the bleeding edge of Tech and how it impacts our decisions on talent and operations. He's interviewed over 200 companies to identify the latest trends and pathways to the future. He joins the CEB Talent Angle to share his perspective on HR Tech and what it means for companies and the HR function. Previously, Mr. Frawley served as the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of CEB Iconoculture, Inc., since December 2002 and June 2010 respectively. Chief Executive Officer of Techies Com Inc. Senior Vice President of Channel Strategies at Gartner Group Mr. Frawley founded J3 Learning Corp. and served as its President until 1996. He served for seven years as an Aircraft Carrier Fighter Pilot in the U.S. Navy, where he worked in active missions throughout the Middle East and Africa. He serves as a Director of Jobs2Web Inc., CEB Iconoculture Inc., MyAlerts, LLC and Fision, LLC. He served as a Director of HotGigs Inc. Mr. Frawley served as a Director of Techies Com Inc., from July 1998 to January 7, 2002. Mr. Frawley received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Economics from the U.S. Naval Academy.

Tony Schwartz of the Energy Project believes that we're at our best when we move rhythmically between spending and renewing energy — a reality that companies must embrace to fuel sustainable engagement and high performance. When you're intent on supplying fuel in each dimension of energy, you're creating happier people that will affect your organization's success. Tony's most recent book, The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance, was a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. His previous book, The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy Not Time, co-authored with Jim Loehr, spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into 28 languages. In 2013, Tony launched a biweekly column for the New York Times titled "Life@Work." Tony is a contributor to numerous publications including The Huffington Post and Harvard Business Review, and for three years, he wrote the most popular blog on HBR.org. He is also a regular contributor to CBS This Morning.

Peter Shankman, a pioneer in modern PR, marketing, advertising, social media, and customer service, profiles the famously nice executives, entrepreneurs, and companies that are setting the standard for success in this new collaborative world. He explores the new hallmarks of effective leadership, including loyalty, optimism, humility, and a reverence for customer service, and shows how leaders like Jet Blue's Dave Needleman, Tony Hsieh of Zappos, Steve Jobs of Apple, Ken Chenault of Amex, Indra Nooyi of Pepsi, and the team behind Patagonia harness these traits to build productive, open, and happy workplaces for the benefit of their employees, themselves, and the bottom line.

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 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.

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-hour interview with Oprah at her house to discuss his mission to bring positive psychology to the world.

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