A ”best process” becomes best when you understand how. Here are three steps for ensuring success when searching for top talent
Jan 22
News
Jan 15
Six Reasons Why Non-Profits Need Retained Search
With limited budget dollars for the crucial work a non-profit needs to do, it can be challenging to convince BODs to spend money on retained search for top talent. After all, they have carefully earmarked their funds to best support their mission and the consumers who benefit from it. Their mission IS their passion and […]
Jan 14
Global Recruiter Launches Service to Non-Profits
ATLANTA, Ga – January 15, 2020 – A new specialization group focused on Non-Profit organizations has been launched by global recruiter Cornerstone International Group. Cornerstone, a retained executive search organization with 58 member offices in 36 countries, will concentrate its new service first in North America to meet market opportunities. Non-Profit companies often face distinct […]
Jan 06
A Look Back at 2019
Happy New Year! But, before we start on a new journey, let’s take one last look over the shoulder at 2019. The Cornerstone Blog was busier than ever – over 70 posts and national reports. We looked at the the recruiting scene in depth. We reviewed changes in organizational strategy in 2019 and the rise […]
Jan 02
The Cornerstone Eagle – January 2020
As the New Year starts, it is time to go back to the basics and REFLECT again on HOW EXECUTIVES CAN LEARN FROM BABIES or your GRAND BABIES THE CORNERSTONE EAGLE is the newsletter for senior executives, friends and partners of the Cornerstone International Group around the world. The Eagle is majestic, free and towers […]
Dec 18
Executive Search in 2020 – No More One-Offs
Just as new positions such as the CTO have become strategic essentials, so will the recruiting partnership become a must-have in developing the next generation of business leaders.
Dec 13
Are There Limits to AI in Recruiting?
At a moment of this importance in your life, do you really want to talk to a robot?
Dec 02
Women in Leadership Need In-House Support
Companies are throwing away money by not actively supporting and promoting women to their executive ranks and supervisory boards. That’s a major finding of a new report on women in leadership just released by Cornerstone International Group. Expertly assembled by FTM-International, our member office in Berlin, “Women in Leadership” examines the sluggish gender parity drive […]
Dec 02
The Cornerstone Eagle – December 2019
Happy Thanksgiving Day! It is a good time and right moment to express our gratitude, recognition and appreciation to those who offered help and support to us in work, social and private life. Having a thankful heart unlocks the fullness of life as it brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow! This […]
Nov 20
Women Leaders – Building a Balanced Workforce
[Ed: Last week, Anne Glenn laid out the key hurdle limiting the number of women leaders. Here, she looks at solutions] For women just beginning their careers, “promotion gaps” at a pre-managerial level create the biggest single hurdle for their future and the futures of businesses that currently employ them. Nearly 30% of women recently […]
Nov 14
Women Leaders and the Broken Rung
For five years, a report on women leaders has studied 590 companies employing 22 milllion people, finding a failure that lasts a lifetime.
Nov 07
Growing Executive Talent
Can you grow executive talent? Cultivating cabbages or CXOs seems to follow quite similar best-processes.
Nov 06
The Cornerstone Eagle – November 2019
THE CORNERSTONE EAGLE is the newsletter for senior executives, friends and partners of the Cornerstone International Group around the world. The Eagle is majestic, free and towers above all else when gracefully gliding the currents in the air. The Cornerstone International Group likewise feels close affinity with the Eagle, in professionalism in our practice, honesty […]
Nov 01
Qualities of Leadership: Evolution of the CEO
In recent years we have seen how the profile and the role of the chief executive has gone through an evolutionary process.
Oct 24
Gender Diversity: Carrot or Stick?
There are two paths to the pot of gold at the end of the gender diversity rainbow.
You can persuade, or you can impose a quota
Oct 16
China Eyes Global Leadership in Rare Disease
In the US, a rare disease is defined as affecting 75 in every 100,000 people. In China, there is not yet a specific definition, but it is under study.
Oct 09
Leadership Strategies Are Only Real When You Apply Them
Leadership development teaches that the #1 job of a CEO is vision and values – purpose. Leadership strategies are the inspiring part of inspiring and enabling. But you don’t have to get there in one fell swoop. Choosing the grandest, boldest, riskiest big steps is more dramatic, but less certain than enabling your team to take […]
Oct 02
The Changing of the Board
Sitting on a corporate Board of Directors was once a social imperative. As an attainable goal, it depended on the spoon in your mouth when you were born
Sep 27
The Cornerstone Eagle – October 2019
THE CORNERSTONE EAGLE is the newsletter for senior executives, friends and partners of the Cornerstone International Group around the world. The Eagle is majestic, free and towers above all else when gracefully gliding the currents in the air. The Cornerstone International Group likewise feels close affinity with the Eagle, in professionalism in our practice, honesty […]
Sep 26
Talent Optimization – Can You Deliver with what You’ve Got
Retained Executive Search can be like an iceberg in some ways. What you see on the surface is only a percentage of the benefits that can be lying beneath the surface. A topical example is Talent Optimization. Earlier this year, a Predictive Index survey revealed that 52% of CEOs did not achieve their strategic goals […]