The Talent War with George Randle of The Talent War Group

Waste No Day: A Home Services Motivational Podcast

Brian Burton & Nate Minnich

Entrepreneurship, Business:entrepreneurship, Business

5.0 • 548 Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

In today’s show, we are putting George Randle in your passenger seat to discuss his book, “The Talent War.” George Randle is an experienced talent executive, veteran, coach, and leader known for selecting, building, and reorganizing teams to reach their full business potential. George has 20+ years of Fortune 100 and Fortune 1000 global Human Resources and Talent Acquisition experience building and coaching elite teams. He began his professional life by enlisting in the US Army Reserves. While serving in the USAR, he received his bachelor’s degree from Missouri State University and was commissioned as an officer. His career assignments included Berlin, US CENTCOM, and III Corps with deployments to Africa (Somalia and Kenya), Central America, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Following his successful military career, George transitioned to the corporate world, experiencing many of the same challenges Veterans face today. With these challenges, along with the recognition that building elite teams are his true passion, George ultimately transitioned to the Human Resources and Talent Acquisition functions serving the last 10+ years as a global HR executive and leader. Over the course of his time as an executive, the teams George has built and led have hired over 85,000 professionals, including over 2000 executives. He is also known for his decades of work supporting veterans and their transitions, ultimately creating one of the largest and most successful Veteran Hiring Programs for a Global Fortune 50 firm. He is also co-author of the best-selling book, “The Talent War: How Special Operations and Great Organizations Win on Talent,” and host of The Talent War Podcast. On today’s show, he addresses the significant gap in the trades industry as well as what we can do to fill it.

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0:00.0	And it's the people behind driving the ideas driving you forward.
0:05.2	So the decisive battlefield essentially becomes the better that you can attract, assess, select,
0:13.4	hire, retain, train, and grow your people.
0:18.7	Ultimately, it amounts to the fact that you have the best people on your team.
0:24.9	And the team with the best people wins and wins constantly, providing you don't get that,
0:31.1	you know, the complacency.
0:37.0	Welcome to the Waste No Day podcast, a podcast specifically for and about the home services industry as it relates to plumbing, heating, air conditioning, and electrical.
0:48.9	More than a podcast, Waste No Day is a credo, a determination, a mindset.
0:54.5	It is a never-ending discipline. It is a never-ending discipline.
0:56.6	It is a refuse to lose pursuit.
0:59.1	It is a wake-up call every morning to waste no day.
1:03.1	Now here's your host, Brian Burton and Nate Minnick.
1:17.6	Hey, welcome to another episode of the Waste No Day podcast.
1:21.3	Your host, Nate and Brian are hanging out with you on this new week. And we are excited to have another guest bringing to the show his content.
1:25.2	This time we're talking on the Talent war with co-author George Randall.
1:30.7	We're excited to have him on talking about not only his book, but the concepts there
1:34.2	within, as we all here in the trades know that there is a desperate need for great talent.
1:39.8	We're excited to have him on.
1:41.2	But first, we're going to break down the concepts on an introduction before we invite
1:45.3	George on.
1:46.0	And first we're going to look to Brian for our quote.
1:49.1	The best people will not tolerate poor leadership.
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