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Yes, Leaders Must Share Blame in the Mass Resignations

Chris Allan of Cornerstone International Group

Corporate leaders of a century ago would probably not recognize their counterparts of today. Since the Industrial Revolution, the business of economic leadership has been steadily refined. Today, it is a vastly complicated set of skills and required understanding sufficient to be the basis of sophisticated and costly courses at the world’s centres of high […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: COVID-19, leadership, resignations, responsibility

Be Careful Where You Sit

Dick Daniels of Cornerstone Executive Coach, Naples, Fla.

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: assumptions, bias, leadership, objectivity, perspective

5 Reasons You Should Coach a Leader

Cornerstone International Group

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: leaders, leadership

Hiring Private Equity Leaders – Part III: Then the Challenge

Cornerstone International Group

Private equity hiring can bne a game of snakes and ladders

Now we look at the challenge of finding a ‘pink giraffe’ to lead your portfolio invested company, why this is a difficult search, and surface compromise as an essential dynamic

Filed Under: Blog, Financial Services, Leadership Tagged With: leadership, Private Equity

Hiring Private Equity Leaders – Part II: Core Soft Credential Constituents

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Managing people is complex and hiring Private Equity leaders entails heavy lifting from a soft skill standpoint.

Filed Under: Blog, Leadership Tagged With: leadership, leadershipdevelopment, Private Equity

COVID’s Silver Lining

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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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Coronavirus, COVID-19, global, leadership

COVID-19 – There’s no going back

Cornerstone International Group

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. […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: change, Coronavirus, COVID-19, leadership, skillsets

Hiring Private Equity Leaders – Part I: Ideals and Compromise

Cornerstone International Group

First in a series from Cornerstone Singapore Part One – Core Hard Credential Constituents The bar is set high. Dynamics at Private Equity firms is fast, aggressive and all conquering. As the investor leader you’re thrust into that all too familiar position of tackling senior leadership management issues at a newly acquired portfolio firm. This […]

Filed Under: Blog, Financial Services, Leadership Tagged With: Financial Services, leadership, PE, Private Equity

7 Steps to Successfully Re-Integrate Your Workforce

Alexander Lutchin of Cornerstone Toronto

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Coronavirus, COVID-19, leadership, workforce

Leadership Strategies Are Only Real When You Apply Them

George Bradt of PrimeGenesis

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog, leadership development Tagged With: leadership, leadership development

CSR: Finding the “Why” in Business

Chris Allan of Cornerstone International Group

It is no coincidence that CSR has become a major factor in recruitment as we transit younger, more educated and more self-aware generations of workers.

Filed Under: Blog, Leadership, Life lessons Tagged With: Corporate Social Responsibility, CSR, Inspiring leaders, leadership

The Flip Side of Executive Search: Do You Fit?

Larry Shoemaker of Cornerstone Atlanta

In Executive Search, the candidate is also assessing you

Recruiting someone involves convincing them the role you have is better for their career than the one they are currently in, or are perhaps considering.

Filed Under: Blog, career management, Recruiting, Uncategorized Tagged With: executive recruiting, leadership, Retained Executive Search

Leadership Brief: Clear Up Unfinished Business

Dick Daniels of Cornerstone Coaching at Chicago

Key leadership brief: clear up unfinished business before year-end

Most of us can identify past moments when we said or did something that was misperceived or misunderstood. Sometimes we are fully aware of the relational tension created by those moments. It’s also possible that we missed the signals of the intensity we initiated by the attitudes, words, or actions. Regardless, the end of the […]

Filed Under: Blog, Leadership Tagged With: Inspiring leaders, leadership

Simon Wan speaks on Leadership

Cornerstone International Group

Karen Greenbaum the President and CEO of the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC) interviewed Simon Wan, Chair and Chief Executive of Cornerstone International Group on “The Power of Authentic Leadership”. Listen to the interview here: Below is the transcript:  KAREN: Welcome to the Leaders on Leaders podcast from the Global Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants. […]

Filed Under: Blog, Leadership Tagged With: leadership

Leaders – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Sherry Ray of Cornerstone Coaching

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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 […]

Filed Under: Blog, Leadership Tagged With: leadership

Are Natural Leaders the Only Kind?

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Since school days we’ve been exposed to natural leaders – people who tend to take charge among their peers and are the popular choice to captain teams and lead groups. A good example is David Beckham who retired from professional soccer this year after leading his team, Paris St. Germain, to victory and the top […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Inspiring leaders, leadership, leadership traits

Do You Have What It Takes To Lead?

Cornerstone International Group

Great leadership is not “painting by numbers” Everyone has a different idea of what makes a great leader, but in my experience most views are somewhat one-dimensional. There are two common and apparently irreconcilable camps – the “strong leader” or the “selfless, empowering leader”. Actually, great leaders are all of the above and more, because […]

Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: great leaders, leadership

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