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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. Laszlo joins the Talent Angle to discuss the seminal importance of recruiting, rethinking engagement, creating transparent workplaces, fostering feedback, and so much more.&nbsp; &nbsp;

WORK RULES! (and breaking them) with Laszlo Bock, Fmr Google SVP of People

Kidnappers, however ill-intentioned, are prone to the same human reasoning as the rest of us. What anyone desires most is to be understood and respected. Chris Voss shares techniques that work in the board room every bit as well as&nbsp;across the high stakes world of hostage negotiations.

Life and Death Negotiation: Chris Voss

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.&nbsp; For more&nbsp;information on the McChrystal Group&nbsp;go to McChrystalgroup.com

20 Min SPOTLIGHT: Gen. Stan McChrystal on Team of Teams

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. &nbsp; 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.

Radical Candor: A Culture of Challenge and Caring with Kim Scott and Jason Rosoff

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.

Inside the Customer Mind: Jobs-to-be-Done Theory with Bob Moesta

*This Spotlight is a 20 minute excerpt from our full interview which is available on Season 2. &nbsp; Nancy Duarte believes that ideas are the most powerful tools people have. Her passion is to help every person learn to communicate their world-changing idea effectively.  Nancy Duarte is an expert in presentation design and principal of Duarte Design, where she has served as CEO for 21 years. Nancy speaks around the world, seeking to improve the power of public presentations. She is the author of&nbsp;Slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations&nbsp;as well as&nbsp;Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences&nbsp;and the recent HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations.

SPOTLIGHT: Connected Storytelling with Nancy Duarte (20 min)

Traditional management often assumes that motivating people at work is simply about paying them enough--but Barry Schwartz, the author of Why We Work, believes the real motivation to work comes from finding meaning. Everyone--whether they’re a lawyer or janitor, painter or salesperson--can perform at a higher level by finding meaning in their work. Listen to this episode of the CEB Talent Angle to hear Barry discuss how our conventional wisdom on motivation at work is wrong, and how managers can help their employees connect to the good they do in the world.

Finding Meaning in Your Work with Barry Schwartz

Where does great culture come from? How do you build and sustain it in your group, or strengthen a culture that needs fixing? Daniel Coyle, author of The Culture Code, joins the Talent Angle to discuss what makes some of the world’s most successful organizations tick - including Pixar, the San Antonio Spurs, and U.S. Navy’s SEAL Team Six. Coyle offers specific strategies to help you trigger learning, spark collaboration, build trust, and drive positive change to ultimately unlock the hidden potential of teams.

Cracking the Culture Code with Daniel Coyle

What is it like to work for Uber as its new dead of diversity after holding the same post for Hillary Clinton’s campaign? Bernard Coleman shares his insights on diversity and inclusion based on his experiences as head of diversity at Uber and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. “Diversity in isolation in not effective - to be successful it must always be paired with inclusion,” says Coleman. Meaningful D&amp;I efforts requires engaging with others and navigating different perspectives to build lasting solutions.

Bringing Diversity to Uber with Bernard Coleman III

*This is a 20 minute excerpt from our 2016 conversation with Roselinde Torres Roselinde Torres distills down&nbsp;the characteristics of leaders who are thriving,&nbsp;what they do differently&nbsp;and the&nbsp;preparation practices that enable people to grow to their potential. Roselinde Torres is a senior leader in the People &amp; 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. &nbsp;

The Essence of Great Leadership with BCG's Roselinde Torres

“Conscious is the new smart” says Dr. Bob Rosen, CEO of Healthy Companies International. The more conscious we are, the faster we adapt and the higher performing we become. Nothing is more important than understanding ourselves, our actions, and our environment. Dr. Bob Rosen joins the Talent Angle to discuss how leaders can thrive in an age of disruption and uncertainty by becoming more aware and accountable to the world around them. &nbsp;

Creating Conscious Leaders with Dr. Bob Rosen

Humankind is on the brink of an unprecedented technological transformation, and people and organizations that prepare properly have a massive opportunity ahead of them. Listen to Peter Hinssen, business school lecturer, futurist, and author of The Day After Tomorrow as he discusses the technological changes that will fundamentally change how we work, how we live, and how we relate to each other.

SPOTLIGHT: Connected Storytelling with Nancy Duarte (20 min)

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