This is the fourth of four articles digging into cultures aligned with the four fundamental strategies: Independent design, Stable production, Interdependent delivery and Flexibility. A culture of flexibility is – wait for it – flexible. Its people are going to be all over the map. When you focus people on service or customer […]
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How P&G Became “Part of Walmart”
This is the third of four articles digging into cultures aligned with the four key strategies. Following independent design and stable production, this deals with a culture of interdependence in support of a delivery strategy. It’s all about enrolling diverse players across the ecosystem. A culture of interdependence is a blended culture. The predominant […]
Consistent Production Needs a Culture of Stability
This is the second of four articles digging into cultures aligned with four key strategies – Independence, Stability, Interdependence and Flexibility. Here, George Bradt deals with a culture of stability in support of a production strategy. It’s all about ensuring reliability. A culture of stability is more results-focused, authority-driven, formal, hierarchical, directed and closed. Expect […]
Culture of Independence Unleashes Invention
Since you should align your culture, organization and operations around one of four strategies, it’s helpful to flesh out what the four different cultures mean. In the first of four articles, George Bradt digs into a culture of INDEPENDENCE – unleashing individual creativity and invention A culture of independence is more open, diffused, caring, flexible, […]
Culture is Your Advantage
Given enough time and money, your competitors can duplicate almost everything you’ve got working for you. They can hire away some of your best people. They can reverse engineer your processes. The only thing they can’t duplicate is your culture. Brave Cultures Are Sustainable All music is made from the same 12 notes. All culture […]
You Can’t Change the Result Without Doing Something Different
Feeling like you are one of many, no way to see a path to a more strategic role from where you find yourself. You know you are not completely fulfilled in your career. You pick a direction, any direction to find an alternative to the track you are on. This leads you to begin interviewing, […]
Agile Talent Series: Dig into the Candidate’s Background
If you are the smartest person in the room, you are definitely in the wrong room.” – Michael Dell Ambitious interviewers are anxious to get a crystal-clear picture of candidates including their personalities and primary social motives. It is also wise to dive deeper and take a close look at the candidate’s background: The professional background […]
Putting More Women in the Boardroom
In 2005, long before Norway had begun to implement quotas for women in the boardroom, Elena Terol stepped out of a distinguished corporate career in talent acquisition to start her own executive search firm in Spain. She knew what she wanted. Elena hired women partners for her company, ExcellentSearch, the Cornerstone member company in Madrid. […]
Give a New Leader a Strong Start with Integrated Coaching
There’s a catch when you hire a new leader. If you spend $300,000 on an exceptional car you expect, and get, a very comprehensive warranty. Invest that or more in a new CEO? No warranty. Just hope you made the right decision. There may not be a absolute guarantee in recruiting top talent but there […]
The Short List Is Where You Make It or Miss It
Some company recruiters may not know what a short list is. Those who do, recognise it as a critical step in identifying the best candidate for a senior position in their organization. The Short List only comes up in Retained Executive Search. The methodology in Retained is to scour the market for not only the […]
How Mentoring Drives Leadership Development
Cornerstone coach Brian Betti recalls his own start and his good fortune in having an exceptional mentor Internal leadership development usually starts with the move from team member to supervisor. Once the flush of pride wears off, reality sets in and, with it, awareness of the need for new skills both mental and physical. I […]
Leaders-The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
What to look for and what to run from Most of us have experienced good, bad and ugly leaders. As an Executive Coach, I’ve seen my share of all three – always wishing the last two categories had never happened. But they did, and most times I have been able to help them. Unlike a […]
Hiring Top Talent: Why You Need a Weighted Feedback Form
Editor’s Note: This is the sixth in a series by Ralf Knegtmans of Cornerstone Amsterdam, author of the recent book Agile Talent: Nine Essential Steps for Selecting Tomorrow’s Top Talent. After years in the executive recruitment field I have come to believe that the proper theoretical background and sufficient practice can help anyone to improve […]
Making a “Commitment” is Personal
Commitment means different things to different people in different situations. In the workplace, it’s a frequent but ambiguous request, as in “we need to stop having incidents, and I need your commitment that they will stop.” Do any of us have that kind of power? The command is delivered as if we were purposely […]
Values Collision, How to Ruin a Great Day at Work
You wake up at 5:30 to get the early train. You are the first to arrive at work, you have a busy week ahead of you, as well as a full day today. You prep for your Monday morning team meeting. Notes, handouts, metrics – everything is just the way you like it. It’s 9 […]
Linkedin: Same Old, Same Old?
In North America especially, LinkedIn is generally viewed as THE place for a professional to post his or her resume. No job directory has come close to its meteoric growth from 500 thousand to 500 million users. And recent stats for 2015-2017 show the growth rate of users undisturbed. But a recent study by the […]
How Neuroscience Enhances Executive Coaching
By Deb Elbaum, PCC, CNTC Editor’s Note: Deb introduces a new weekly series of posts on executive coaching contributed by our Leadership Development team.. She is one of 30 highly qualified and specialized executive coaches who have joined us recently, doubling the number of executive coaches worldwide. When coaching executives and leaders, I like […]
Why Executive Coaching is the New Big Thing
Today we announced the addition of 30 more professional executive coaches to the team. We already had 34. Why would we want more? Because more of our clients worldwide want coaching services. Executive coaching and leadership development has shot to the front in recent years as a must-do tactic for accelerating the development of business […]
Shaping the Future ll – Finding the Banker of Tomorrow
Lydia Goutas is Managing Partner of Cornerstone Vienna and an authority on the current evolution of the banking industry. Following is Part 2 of her remarks to a recent conference on the challenges of finding the bank employees of tomorrow. Read Part 1 here. The future of banking includes meeting candidate expectations of brand and […]
Shaping The Future – The Bank Of Tomorrow
Lydia Goutas is Managing Partner of Cornerstone Vienna and an authority on the current evolution of the banking industry. Following is Part 1 of her remarks to a recent conference on the challenges of finding the bank employees of tomorrow. I was recently asked to speak on Shaping the Future – the topic of the […]