Cathy Hackl is a leading tech futurist and globally recognized business leader who was included in the 2021 prestigious Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led. She leads the Futures Intelligence Group, a futures research & consulting firm that works with clients in tech, fashion, media, government, and defense implementing innovation strategies, strategic foresight, and emerging technologies. On this episode, we discuss the ethics of evolving technologies and their implications for the interpersonal aspects of organizational culture, the management future that Cathy sees and how it will be impacted by the metaverse, and what she’s optimistic about in the future.
There’s Nothing More Important Than Hiring
Lou Adler is the CEO and founder of Performance-based Hiring Learning Systems. He is the author of the Amazon top 10 bestseller, Hire With Your Head, The Essential Guide for Hiring & Getting Hired. On this episode, he shares how he landed in the human capital industry, why he thinks there’s nothing more important than hiring, and what he means when he says you ought to hire people who are “different”. As a bonus, he explains what he means when he says his leadership style is “crappy” and what he’s done about it.
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The Importance of Process
Scott Clary rcurrently runs a global SaaS sales and marketing organization and is the host of the Success Story podcast where he interviews inspirational people, mentors, and leaders. On this episode, we discuss Scott’s process for producing content and maintaining his online presence, how your personal brand impacts your ability to sell, and the importance of grit. Scott also shares how he reverse engineers his way to his goals and how you can too.
How to Be a Super Connector
Judy Robinett is the author of Crack the Funding Code: How Investors Think and What They Need to Hear to Fund Your Startup and How to Be a Power Connector: The 5-50-150 Rule. Robinett is a business thought leader who is known as “the woman with the titanium digital Rolodex.” On this episode, we discuss why “keep your head down” is terrible advice for fulfilling your potential, how Judy recommends you use her Two Golden Questions, and how she learned she actually isn’t shy (and why you probably aren’t either). Finally, Judy shares what she means when she says COVID-19 hasn’t really changed how she networks and why it shouldn’t stop you from growing your community either.
The Hardest Person to Manage is Yourself
Croft Edwards is a Master Certified Coach who has been serving an array of clients with his company Croft + Company. He has created Performance Management Process courses and accompanying one-on-one coaching sessions with over 90 leaders of the largest platinum and palladium mining company in the western hemisphere. On this episode, we discuss why the first person you must learn to manage is yourself, how he arrived at the concept of the “leadership flow”, his book writing process, and what he disagrees with about mainstream leadership development.
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Working in The Intersection
Karl Kapp is the Director of Bloomsburg’s Institute for Interactive Technologies, the founder of “The Learning and Development Mentor Academy,” and the co-founder of The Enterprise Game Stack. On this episode, we discuss what Walt Disney’s planning process has to do with Karl’s own career and niche, the ways that COVID-19 has forced rapid discovery in e-learning, and his advice for aspiring leaders who are new to an organization. We also chat about what he learned when one of his first bosses told him to keep his training tables spotless and what that means for the rest of us who want to be good leaders.