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 […]
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Sep
28
The Cornerstone Eagle – September 2022 – Take Charge and Enjoy Your Life
Aug
19
The Cornerstone Eagle – August 2022 – Certainty in Uncertain Times?
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 […]
Aug
09
Back to Basics: A Classic Treatise on Leadership Reissued by Harvard Business Review
By Kevin O’Donnell Understanding Leadership appeared in the September-October 1961 issue of the Harvard Business Review. Regular readers of the prestigious journal must have been puzzled. Who was W.C.H. Prentice, the author of the piece? Far from being a captain of industry, W.C.H. Prentice was a former professor of psychology who had turned his […]
Jul
21
Do’s & Don’ts of Phone Interviews
By Caroline Kenagy, Brand Manager Response to https://www.bluesteps.com/blog/4-tips-ace-pre-screen-phone-interview Like many other things we have adapted over the last 2 years, phone interviews are not going away anytime soon. Phone interviews can be a good way to get an unbiased idea of a potential candidate. For some, phone interviews ease the nerves of being face to […]
Jul
15
The Cornerstone Eagle – July 2022 – The Future of Work
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 […]
Jun
21
PRESS RELEASE: Cornerstone International Group Recognized as a Global Leader in Executive Talent Search
We are proud to announce that once again, Cornerstone International Group is featured in Hunt-Scanlon Media’s “Global 40” for 2022. The Global 40 is a gold standard of excellence that identifies the top 40 global talent firms providing executive recruiting and ancillary services worldwide. Cornerstone’s global reach extends to 56 independently-owned offices spanning 40 countries. […]
Jun
17
The Cornerstone Eagle – June 2022 – Impactful Leadership
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 […]
Jun
02
Asia’s Fast-Growing EV Market Will Disrupt Automotive Industry Recruitment
By Richard Jackson, Managing Director, Cornerstone Thailand (RLC Recruitment) The biggest thing I see happening in Asia now is the coordinated push to ramp up the manufacturing of EV – electric-powered vehicles. This will have profound effects on recruitment, especially in China and India – the two most important markets for the future of the […]
May
27
The Cornerstone Eagle – May 2022 – Coaching and Its Future
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 […]
Apr
21
It’s Not Fair! Dealing with the Era of Rage Quitting and Employee Unrest
Readers of Cornerstone’s 2022 National Outlook of Countries will note that the global aftershocks of the Great Resignation continue to rumble through our work lives. The Australian Outlook quotes a Gartner Institute finding that 25 percent of people surveyed in late 2021 planned to change jobs in 2022. Employees in many countries can relate […]
Apr
08
The Cornerstone Eagle – April 2022 – Purpose Driven Leadership in Times of Crises
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 […]
Mar
29
What Should CEOs Consider When Facing a Shortage of Talent?
(This article was drafted by Cornerstone Lima in response to a survey conducted in Peru in the third quarter of 2021. The concerns expressed by the South American business leaders broadly reflect the concerns of executives worldwide, so the survey and comments below by Diego Cubas, CEO of Cornerstone Lima, are relevant anywhere.) According to […]
Mar
21
Make Sure Your Organization Practices Inclusion Before Preaching Diversity
Companies that aren’t structurally and culturally inclusive can be harmful to the mental wellbeing of employees who have been hired as part of a diversity program. It often happens that these organizations end up in a zero-sum situation: as they increase their number of diverse employees, many in the original cohort leave. The problem can […]
Mar
16
Building Buy-In to Hybrid Work
During a conversation I had with a company director, he posed questions whose answers are still not clear: How can hybrid work be made effective? How should we reframe our relationships with employees now that their on-site presence will be limited? And finally, he asked about an age-old problem that will still crop up in […]
Mar
11
The Cornerstone Eagle – March 2022 – Leadership in a Time of Uncertainty and Grief
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 […]
Mar
09
The Same, Only Different: Transformation Challenges in the Automotive industry
We are at the beginning of a phase in which the way we (and goods) get around will drive enormous growth in the automotive industry. Autonomous driving immediately springs to everyone’s mind. But the electrification of vehicles will have an enormous impact as well. Around 100 components familiar from the classic combustion engine are […]
Feb
18
The Cornerstone Eagle – February 2022 – The Great Reshuffle Trend of 2022
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 […]
Feb
18
Finding the Right Fit in a New Work Environment
One month after Zuckerberg’s October 2021 announcement, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella unveiled his company’s vision of the Metaverse at their Ignite Fall Conference – on video, naturally. Microsoft’s Metaverse will also be a place of creativity and fun, Nadella claims, but he focusses on the corporate potential of this digital world. “I can’t overstate how much […]
Feb
10
Facebook Becomes Meta – The Dawn of a New Era?
What exactly is the (or a) “Metaverse”? Why do enthusiasts claim it is the dawn of “Web 3.0”, that it will render flat-screen technologies such as Zoom obsolete? Why did we start hearing about the Metaverse tsunami less than six months ago? In October 2021 Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg startled the world by announcing that […]
Feb
01
Strength-Based Coaching: Leadership Starts with the Self
As an executive coach I have long been interested in positive psychology, the scientific study of how humans can optimize their potential. I had studied evidence-based coaching at Fielding Graduate University, where their program was informed by the works of such positive-psychology scholars as Martin Seligman, Mihaly Czikszentmhalyi, Ed Diener, Tal Ben-Sahar, Brenda Frederickson, […]