So, you want to become a Board member? Here’s the bottom line. If you do it well, being a Board member will be more work than you anticipated; more responsibility than you may have understood; a bit more frustrating than you expected; and a rewarding joy and a privilege. Board service is a real job — […]
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Economic Shifts Threaten Family Businesses
The majority of the world’s wealth is created by family owned businesses. Estimates suggest that these businesses — majority owned by a single family — may contribute over 70% of the world’s GDP. They deliver a superior return on assets in the U.S. (+6.5%), even more in Europe (+8%). But the current economic stress created […]
Get Ready for Covid Passports
Last week our Life Sciences & Health practice hosted a global webinar on the current status of the coronavirus pandemic. Medical scientist Dimitri Lavillette explained the incredible advances of immunization in using your own body as a bio-lab in the development of a vaccine – within a single year. Dr. Richard Jones looked at a […]
WEBINAR: Can Medical Science Turn the Covid-19 Corner?
Since November, 2019 this tiny virus has been responsible for infecting 115 million people in 219 countries
How to Assess Intercultural Sensitivity / ICQ
Anne de Landsheer is a specialist in Intercultural Intelligence – a vitally important aptitude for executives and scientists working across borders and cultures. Her previous post is Are You Measuring Intercultural Intelligence? . Here, she speaks with writer Joan Miller. MILLER: Anne, how do you assess the ICQ of an executive level candidate? Are […]
Why Executives Need Cybersecurity Training
Cybersecurity is no longer a niche issue for tech companies. With our growing reliance on online platforms, it’s very quickly becoming a priority
Limping into 2021
The view of earth from the International Space Station, 400 km up, is stunning. You can’t help wondering if you can see all the band-aids. Our poor, bruised planet and the people who live here have survived one of history’s more trying years. The worst pandemic in over 100 years has affected over 200 countries […]
Private Equity Recruiting – Part IV: Don’t Overlook Tangential Opportunity
This four-part series recognizes the challenging factors surrounding a search for the ideal leader of a Private Equity company
Agile Recruiting in 2021
How do you build an Agile workforce? How can agile recruiting find those individuals best able to adapt to new situations and a changing environment?
Remote Work Culture in the Face of COVID-19
Human resources professionals, specialized in issues of emotional well-being, play an increasingly important role in managing a remote work culture of the company.
COVID Learnings from our China colleagues
Thanks to COVID-19, every member of the G7 is in a deep recession, from Japan’s 7.6% contraction to Britain’s 20.7%. China, the first country that reported an outbreak last January, is already back to growth. China may be the only major country to end 2020 with a growing economy. China owes its spectacular economic turnaround […]
5 Reasons You Should Coach a Leader
Why should you coach a Leader? By the time an executive gets into the top chair he or she has been through a lot and learned a lot. Or, if they have been recruited into the job, their credentials have been microscopically reviewed and evaluated. So, why would you need to coach a leader? Leadership […]
6 Crucial Steps to High Executive Search Performance
Ferrari is one of the world’s most recognizable and powerful brands. The cars are beautiful to look at but the most important component is seldom on view. The Ferrari 12-cylinder engine – with cylinders that could fit in a teacup – was the heart of a legend which includes 16 world F1 championships and 256 […]
Your Vitality Quotient and The Future You Didn’t Expect
Today, more than ever, the topic of leadership competencies has become very important. Among them in particular is the level of vital energy (VQ or vitality quotient). The vital energy coefficient is applicable to both an individual and an organization. Leaders who are unable to control and replenish their VQ according to circumstances will not […]
BRIC Leaders Share Pandemic Learnings
We found ourselves in a VUCA world – volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous – long before COVID-19 found us. But the pandemic has made change faster and more volatile, harder to predict, more uncertain, more difficult to analyze, more complex, more ambiguous and more challenging to interpret. Nowhere more so than in the global environment […]
Resurgent Pandemic Threatens Diversity Gains
The slow but steady progress to achieve gender equality in business has come under serious threat from the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest annual survey of Women in the Workplace from McKinsey finds as many as two million women are considering leaving the workforce due to pressures in remote working arising from the pandemic. The issue […]
Hiring Private Equity Leaders – Part III: Then the Challenge
Now we look at the challenge of finding a ‘pink giraffe’ to lead your portfolio invested company, why this is a difficult search, and surface compromise as an essential dynamic
Talent Management Could Be a Fundamental Re-Set
The T-word is everywhere. Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Future of Talent, Talent Strategy. Are we just trying to put a classier label on the old HR? Not at all. Talent Management (to pick one) is everywhere because it is destined to be possibly the most comprehensive reset of the modern business organization. For at least […]
Growth Brings China Healthcare Factions Closer
The rapid development of the healthcare industry in China has accelerated efforts to communicate between the various factions within the sector. An example earlier this year was a customized training program undertaken by Cornerstone in Taiwan. The client was a large pharma company and the task was to enable scientific exchange between company personnel and […]
Pandemic Highlights Need for Cooperation
The Life Sciences & Healthcare industry is at a fantastic period with unprecedented improvement of health thanks to innovation. Products are developed under market forces. But as the Covid-19 pandemic demonstrates, when there is an urgent, public health need authorities have to intervene to ensure sufficient financing and reduce commercial risk to the companies. Covid-19 […]