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 […]
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It’s Not Fair! Dealing with the Era of Rage Quitting and Employee Unrest
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 […]
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, […]
Be Careful Where You Sit
It’s known as Miles Law, and it’s attributed to Rufus Edward Miles, a Federal administrator who served as an assistant secretary under three U.S. presidents. It states: “where you stand depends on where you sit.” The phrase acknowledges that where we stand in the perspectives that affect our opinions or decisions, comes from where we […]
AESC Interviews Links Dollars and Diversity & Inclusion
According to Gallup, “Organizations that are the best in engaging their employees achieve earnings-per-share growth that is more than four times that of their competitors. Compared with business units in the bottom quartile, those in the top quartile of engagement realize substantially better customer engagement, higher productivity, better retention, fewer accidents, and 21% higher profitability. […]
Switching To Decision-Enabling From Decision-Making
(Ed Note: This article first appeared in Forbes, for whom George is a regular contributor. He is also an alumnus of Coca Cola where he formed a deep respect for CEO Neville Isdell and his leadership ability. George looks back on those qualities here) If decisions have to go through you, you’re the choke point at […]
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 […]
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 […]
PRESS RELEASE: Resurgent Pandemic Stressing Leaders at All Levels
ATLANTA, Ga. October 26, 2020 — A resurgent pandemic is placing massive stress on leaders around the world, according to an international panel of experts. With the majority of an organization’s workforce working outside the office, managers face new priorities ensuring the welfare of their human capital. Such were the findings of a recent global […]
Are You Measuring Intercultural Intelligence?
Many people may not be familiar with the term Intercultural Intelligence, but in a world of global business where crossing boundaries is routine, it has become a vitally important aptitude and skill. Cultural intelligence allows a person of one background, or culture (say, a Swede) to interpret the unfamiliar mannerisms of someone from another culture […]
COVID-19 – There’s no going back
Managing change is one of the new skillsets for the future, say executive leaders on two continents. Daniel Gamba of New York, Co-Head of Fundamental Equities at BlackRock, and Blas Maquivar, President of Global Emerging Markets with Mars Wrigley in London, addressed how global leadership is adjusting to a new “normal” that is still evolving. […]
How Can You Lead if No-one is There?
Three months ago you might have asked that question. But the amazing take up on digital communications has reset the board. Everyone is still there! They are not down on the third floor anymore (and may not be for a while, with talk of second and third waves) but they are out there, listening, caring, […]
Post Covid: Coaching Starts at Home
Each person on our team has had his or her own unique experience. Same crisis, different realities.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
PRESS RELEASE: Cornerstone Adds Kyiv, Zurich and Brussels
Stockholm, SW. April 23, 2019 – International executive recruiter Cornerstone International Group continues to expand its footprint in Europe with the addition of a member office in the Ukraine. Kyiv-based Business Active is the third executive search firm to join the EMEA region of the global network in the last six months. With new members […]
Leadership Capacity Means Learning to Delegate
I define Leadership Capacity as the ability to lead more effectively and more efficiently at higher levels of organizational complexity. That definition assumes that a team member already is leading effectively and efficiently at their current level. The ongoing research in leadership development documents that a leader can continue to enrich, enhance, and expand leadership […]
Our Window on a Wary Europe – 2019 National Outlooks of Western Euro
Each year at this time we publish national business outlooks from our members. This is the first of two European summaries. Links to the individual country outlooks are at the end” Most of Europe has the jitters. Since this time last year, the rock and the hard place have become up front and ugly – […]
Leadership Learnings from the Salamander
The unique qualities of the salamander are surprisingly transferrable to business leaders