“HR Heretics” | How CPOs, CHROs, Founders, and Boards Build High Performing Companies

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After a decade+ of “blitz-scaling” companies, HR, talent, and People leaders now face an uncertain economy that has already seen big booms and busts. What will it take to construct the next generation of incredible businesses – and where can people leaders have the most business impact?     Hosts Nolan Church and Kelli Dragovich have been through it all, the highs and the lows – IPOs, layoffs, executive turnover, board meetings, culture changes, and more. With a lineup of industry vets and experts, Nolan and Kelli break down the nitty-gritty details, trade offs, and dynamics of constructing high performing companies. Through unfiltered conversations that can only happen between seasoned practitioners – Kelli and Nolan dive deep into the kind of leadership-level strategy that often happens behind closed doors. This show is for those who are ready to ditch conventional wisdom and figure out from first principles what works for their culture, business model, and industry, with the goal of building a resilient and enduring company. You’ll come away with real guidance for seeing around corners, building enduring companies, and carving out an impactful career – plus a newly-honed bullshit detector. Topics frequently touched on in this season include: building high performing cultures, compensation negotiation, performance reviews, company design, equity, M&As, recruiting the best talent, and how to manage your own psychology as a people leader. hrheretics.substack.com

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Airbnb’s Iain Roberts on Designing HR as a Strategic Service Function
Feb 20, 2025
Board Seats and Beyond, with Asana's Head of People Anna Binder
Feb 18, 2025
Tucking In Top Performers
Feb 14, 2025
Anthropic’s Interview Rules
Feb 12, 2025
TikTok & Tech Layoff Strategy with Jesse Tinsley
Feb 07, 2025
Hidden Job Market: Exec Hiring 2025 with Adam Ward
Feb 04, 2025
Navigating the Complexity of Company Values
Jan 30, 2025
Breaking Through Reorg Paralysis
Jan 28, 2025
Smart Hiring with Tom Clayton
Jan 23, 2025
When Success Means New Bosses: A Startup Growth Story
Jan 21, 2025
Unlocking HR's Hidden Insights with Siadhal Magos [AI Corner]
Jan 17, 2025
Adapting to Startup Reality and Having More Impact
Jan 15, 2025
The Art of Not Getting Fired for Not Firing People
Jan 10, 2025
The Anti-Org Chart: Why Colin Zima Traded HR for Chaos (and Won)
Jan 09, 2025
Big Tech Alumni: Help or Hindrance? with Bryan Power
Jan 02, 2025
The Very Best of Heretics 2024
Dec 31, 2024
The Year End Special: Personal L’s, Big Wins, and Why Headcount is Dead
Dec 20, 2024
Striking at the Heart of the Future of Work | AI Corner with Siadhal Magos on 11x AI
Dec 18, 2024
Why Messy is Good and Structure is Overrated
Dec 13, 2024
Be an Infinite Learner with Chris Yeh
Dec 12, 2024
Stop Saying You're a Business Partner (And Actually Be One) with Jeff Diana
Dec 06, 2024
C-Suite Budget Scrutiny? with Colleen McCreary
Dec 03, 2024
The 3AM People Leader: Donald Knight of Warner Brothers Discovery
Nov 26, 2024
Feedback Isn't a Gift, It's a Workout | Culture Amp CEO Didier Elzinga
Nov 21, 2024
Beyond the Red Flags: Managing Leadership Evolution
Nov 19, 2024
HR's Legal Blindside: The Litigation Wave
Nov 14, 2024
The Myth of the Perfect Candidate
Nov 12, 2024
From Department of No to Strategic Partner: Pendo’s CPO on Modern HR
Nov 07, 2024
Election Day 2024: Leading Through the Divide
Nov 05, 2024
Beyond Emily in Paris: Navigating French Business Culture and HR Politics with Ciara Lakhani
Oct 31, 2024
From Empty Suits to Real Leaders
Oct 29, 2024
When Breaking Everything Fixes Everything with Jared Fliesler
Oct 24, 2024
Burnout in the Workplace
Oct 22, 2024
Silicon Valley's Survival of the Fittest with Peter Walker of Carta
Oct 17, 2024
Trust No One? The New Realities of Tech Recruiting in 2024
Oct 16, 2024
Andy Price on Building World-Class Teams: Process is Overrated
Oct 10, 2024
Rethinking DEI in Tech After Microsoft's Team Dissolution
Oct 09, 2024
HashiCorp's CPO Christine Centa on Equity, Remote Work & AI
Oct 03, 2024
When CEOs Bare Their Souls in 36 Pages with Colleen McCreary
Oct 01, 2024
Realtalk: Feedback
Sep 26, 2024
Amazon's Return To Office Policy
Sep 24, 2024
Workplace Romance Power Dynamics
Sep 19, 2024
The First Team Trap: Avoiding Toxicity
Sep 17, 2024
Exec, Manager, Friend: CPO Trifecta
Sep 12, 2024
Promotions on Ice: Are you stuck?
Sep 10, 2024
Equity: Cash or Carrot? With Guissu Baier of General Catalyst
Sep 06, 2024
Everyone's Talking About Founder Mode
Sep 05, 2024
DEI: Pushback or Paradigm Shift? With Vijay Pendakur
Aug 29, 2024
When Is It Time to Quit Your Job?
Aug 27, 2024
Reinventing HR at Garner with Valentina Gissin
Aug 22, 2024
How Back Channels Really Shape Hiring Decisions
Aug 20, 2024
The Long Game of DEI: A Conversation with Joelle Emerson
Aug 15, 2024
The Vibe Shift in Tech
Aug 13, 2024
So the NYTimes says everyone hates HR, now what?
Aug 08, 2024
Should Your Org do Amazon’s Bar Raiser Interviews?
Aug 06, 2024
AI-Powered Hiring, Really... with Siadhal Magos of Metaview
Aug 01, 2024
How to Show Your Work
Jul 30, 2024
The AI Gold Rush and Talent Dynamics with Chris Vasquez of Quantum Talent
Jul 25, 2024
PIPs and Forks
Jul 23, 2024
Remote Work, Hiring Trends, and the Value of a College Diploma with Heather Doshay, Partner and Head of Talent at SignalFire
Jul 18, 2024
Meta Cuts VP Roles
Jul 16, 2024
Talking Executive Search 2.0 with Nick Cromydas of Hunt Club: Equity, Severance, and Overvaluation
Jul 11, 2024
Is MEI the Anti DEI? with Colleen McCreary and David Hanrahan
Jul 09, 2024
How (and why!) to take time off
Jul 03, 2024
From CPO to CEO: Michelle Wagner Tells All
Jul 02, 2024
Navigating the Real Power Structures at Your Company
Jun 27, 2024
Scale AI's "MEI" Hiring Announcement with Richard Ni, the former Head of People
Jun 25, 2024
Navigating Media, LinkedIn, and the HR Echo Chamber with Lars Schmidt
Jun 21, 2024
Rippling vs. Competitors: The Ex-Employee Dilemma
Jun 14, 2024
Pendo CEO Todd Olson on Co-Founder Conflict, Hiring Slow, and Pushing Limits at a Software Unicorn
Jun 13, 2024
The Future of Management
Jun 11, 2024
How Big Should Your Org Grow?
Jun 06, 2024
Toxic Managers
Jun 04, 2024
The Future of Tech Operators with Casey Woo, Founder of Operators Guild
May 31, 2024
The Big Stay
May 29, 2024
A Deep Dive Into Coaching as a Career with Nathan Tanner, author of The Unconquerable Leader
May 23, 2024
What's the Deal at OpenAI?
May 21, 2024
$3B Remote CEO on Killing the Return to Office
May 16, 2024
Career Decisions Round 2 with Janelle Lopez
May 14, 2024
Balancing Humanity and Numbers: A Michelle Weaver, CFO at Twitch
May 09, 2024
Do Non-Competes Harm Tech & AI Progress?
May 07, 2024
Getting to the Bottom of Skill Shortages, Burnout & Engagement: Kristy McCann Flynn, SkillCycle CEO
May 03, 2024
Politics in the Workplace is Just Distracting
May 02, 2024
The Architect of the Paypal Mafia: Peterson Conway
Apr 26, 2024
Shopify's Zero Sum Mastery Program
Apr 23, 2024
Leadership Development: Can We Keep Up With AI?: A Conversation with Adam Weber, Chief Evangelist at 15five
Apr 18, 2024
No Makeup, No Offer?
Apr 16, 2024
Lean Mindset, Business Impact and the New Era of HR: Jeff Diana, former CPO of Calendly
Apr 11, 2024
Pedigree is Overrated. McKinsey is Paying Employees to Quit
Apr 09, 2024
The State of Startups in 2023 and 2024: A Conversation with Peter Walker of Carta
Apr 04, 2024
Remote vs. In-Person
Apr 02, 2024
From MIT to HR Leader: A Conversation with Richard Ni, former CPO of Scale AI
Mar 28, 2024
How to Be Layoff-Proof
Mar 26, 2024
Building Legendary Teams: Trust, Transition, and Quality with JR Rettig of Pendo
Mar 21, 2024
The Promotion Problem
Mar 19, 2024
The Freedom to Fail and Dispassionate Assessment with A.J. Thomas of X, Google's Moonshot Factory
Mar 14, 2024
We Don't Talk About Board Dynamics Enough
Mar 12, 2024
Emergency Segment: Chamath Wants to Abolish HR?
Mar 08, 2024
Is Shopify's "~Mastery" Blowing Up Levels?
Mar 05, 2024
Building Radically Better Businesses with DHH of 37signals and Basecamp
Feb 29, 2024
Segment: Bolt Slashes Valuation 97% and Screws Over Employees
Feb 27, 2024
L.J. Brock, CPO of Coinbase Is Unflinching in the Face of the HR Status Quo
Feb 22, 2024
Elizabeth Patterson of Sapphire Ventures on How to Get Noticed by a VC Talent Partner
Feb 20, 2024
What’s Next For DEI: A Conversation with Mita Mallick of Carta
Feb 15, 2024
On The Record: New Norms for Layoffs in 2024
Feb 13, 2024
Inside M&As, Redesigning Comp, and a Public Company's CPO HR Tool Kit with Brigette McInnis-Day of UIPath
Feb 09, 2024
Reversing Roles: Number 1 or Number 2 Seat?
Feb 06, 2024
The Interview Process is Fundamentally Broken: Linear's Move to Work Trials
Jan 30, 2024
Katelin Holloway Thinks More HR People Need a VC Checkbook
Jan 26, 2024
Andreessen Horowitz's Matt Oberhardt on Backchannels, MOC Interviews, and Exec Recruiting in 2024
Jan 18, 2024
SymphonyAI's Jen Trzepacz on Comp Transparency, Yahoo's Early Days, and the Real Deal on CPO-CEO Relationships
Jan 11, 2024
Getting Honest About DEI in 2024: A Conversation with Colleen McCreary and David Hanrahan
Jan 08, 2024
The Enigmatic Q Hamirani on Turnarounds, AI, and the CPO Grind
Jan 04, 2024
A Deep Dive on Firing Executives
Dec 28, 2023
VC Dan Portillo, Founder/GP of TheGP on Being the Godfather of Talent Partners, Starting His Own Fund, and Experimentation
Dec 21, 2023
Segment: Is the DEI Movement in Tech Causing More Harm than Good?
Dec 15, 2023
Navigating the CEO-CPO Relationship with Lattice's Cara Brennan Allamano
Dec 14, 2023
Brett Queener Unfiltered: A Wake Up Call for Tech, 2024 Planning, and Driving High Performance
Dec 07, 2023
The HR Insider: Melanie Naranjo, VP People at Ethena Gets Real
Nov 30, 2023
David Hanrahan on High Performance: Comp Strategy, Performance Cycles, and New Norms
Nov 21, 2023
Steve Cadigan on Blitzscaling LinkedIn, Competitive Exec Teams, and RTO
Nov 16, 2023
Molly Graham on Building a Powerful Network, Managing Your Emotions, and Creating High Performing Teams in Hyperscale
Nov 09, 2023
Tomasz Tunguz on Hiring the Right Talent, Firing the Wrong Execs, and Navigating M&As
Nov 02, 2023
Colleen McCreary on Layoffs, M&A, and Recruiting the Best Talent
Oct 26, 2023
Patty McCord Thinks HR People Are Business People
Oct 19, 2023