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 […]
COVID-19
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
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
PRESS RELEASE: Top Recruiter Looks Past Covid
ATLANTA, Ga. September 14, 2020 – Despite the World Health Organization estimate of COVID-19 deaths approaching one million, confirmed cases nearing 29 million and global economies in tatters, the sun will come up tomorrow. That’s the message from Karen Greenbaum, head of the world’s largest association of executive recruiters. “I’m actually hearing of business picking […]
COVID’s Silver Lining
5 Learnings from 2 Global Leaders on Re-Inventing Your Firm for an Evolving Normal “2020 has been a fascinating year with what COVID is bringing to the table. We are focusing our efforts in three big buckets. The first and most important one is to keep our associates safe. The second one is to keep […]
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. […]
E-Health Platform Serves 18m Patients
One of the consequences of the COVID-19 crisis has been an acceleration toward the digitalisation of doctor’s meetings. In China, Tencent announced last March that the crisis has enabled them to multiply the number of registered patients by 1.6, with a total of 18 million customers in June. At first sight, it looks like a […]
Pandemic Brings About Change In Regulatory Science
Despite severe pressure arising from the coronavirus pandemic, global health regulations could be a beneficiary in the new normal.
7 Steps to Successfully Re-Integrate Your Workforce
COVID-19 took the world by surprise locking down countries and suspending the economy. Now we are moving forward, through uncharted waters, creating a new normal. Here is a leadership framework that can provide navigation. Protection Provide structured procedures and measures to ensure your employees, customers, subcontractors and their families feel protected returning to work. Recovery […]
Coping with COVID: Learning from the Salamander
CORNERSTONE & COVID: Our members around the world are stepping up to comment on the new challenges facing our industry. Here’s Martin Braddock of Dubai Back in 2016, I wrote an article called: ‘Emulating the qualities of the Salamander: How an Executive Coach can help you’. Not the ‘catchiest’ of titles, but it […]
Post Covid: Coaching Starts at Home
Each person on our team has had his or her own unique experience. Same crisis, different realities.
COVID-19: Has Video Killed the In-Person Interview?
CORNERSTONE & COVID: Our members around the world are stepping up to comment on the new challenges facing our industry. Here’s Dan Heiman of Kansas City , Regional Chair for North America. Some of you may be old enough to remember the 1979 song Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles. It was the very […]
Ensuring the Right People are on Your Team
Now is the time to begin thinking about your employees, and the decisions you need to make as you move forward.
Leadership the Key to Post-COVID Recovery
Across the world, we are collectively experiencing one of the most significant changes of our lives. The loss of physical touch, standing close to people without fear, and dinner out with friends. We have lost the option of celebrating milestone – birthdays, weddings, graduations, baby showers, holidays and cancelled vacations, the losses are mounting. Many […]
Reality and the Virus: Mask Production Jumps 500x
Of the many business developments related to the COVID-19 epidemic, none has been more dramatic than the demand for medical-grade masks. The drive to meet the global need has created a supply surge in China unlike anything in the past decade, ending in a new, multi-nation industry. As the virus continued spreading around the world, […]
Could the Coronavirus Cloud Have a Silver Lining?
It is said that every cloud has a silver lining. It may be hard to find right now in the Coronavirus cloud, but new opportunities arise in all crises. Perhaps this pandemic will help organizations around the world to further value the importance of digital transformation of processes, investment in training their leaders and bringing […]