<![CDATA[ Hire for Culture Fit – if You Have One Many hiring managers or HRDs have trouble explaining or describing their companies’ culture. No surprise there, but it does make it hard to ensure that your new high – value hires are going to fit right in – if you yourself are not sure what […]
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BE AN OUTSTANDING LEADER – WITH CORNERSTONE
<![CDATA[ Attracting exceptional people to work with you is a key characteristic of an outstanding leader. The question is, how do you select the best people internally, or if necessary,hire them externally –and, as is often the case, quickly? The evidence shows that this is not an easy task: Peter Drucker, “the man who invented […]
HRD Can Help CEOs Succeed – Cornerstone
<![CDATA[ Two recent studies suggest a seldom-spoken secret about leadership: in essence, the corner office may not be the source of strength we assume it is, but a weak link in the chain. The first study was Cornerstone International Group’s annual Cornerstone global probe. We were looking for solutions HRDs could implement to help CEOs […]
Today’s Job Market – Cornerstone
<![CDATA[ So, how’s the job market? As a professional recruiter with 19 offices in Asia and 70 offices worldwide, this is a question I get asked all the time. Many business leaders also share their perceptions of the talent market with me with words like tight, flat, robust, competitive, and so on. However, the war […]
About Authenticity : About Authenticity Brené Brown, University of Houston Researcher Professor+ Huffington Endowed Chair
<![CDATA[ My son, who is now an independent adult, introduced me to Brené Brown when he was a student in college. He had seen her TED Talk on Vulnerability and wanted me to see it to understand what he had been thinking about. She was able to put his thoughts to words. Years later I […]
Americans Buy Chinese Companies & Start Out With High Hopes
<![CDATA[ This story I’m about to tell you is short and its vis a vis of nothing. But it’s important in the context of a 2016 when Chinese M&A is in the news. If we step out of the realm of SMEs and completely into the realm of large multinational corporations, one of the favored […]
Chinese M&A in America, Culture Matters
<![CDATA[ The follow article written by Damjan DeNoble hits the nail on the head. A few years back, I was involved in advisingto aftermath of a failed M&A project for a global life science client, who was misled by their local management in China on the potential business prospect of a M&A deal in China, […]
World Day of Cultural Diversity May 21
<![CDATA[ In 2002, the United Nations introduced the annual World Day of Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, or Cultural Diversity Day, for short. In the wake of the terrorist attacks on 9/11, this date — 21 May — was a reminder “to reject outright the theory of the inevitable clash of cultures and civilizations” and […]
CornerstoneInternational Group, CHINA
<![CDATA[ Laurie O’Donnell Managing Director Cornerstone International Group Beijing, CHINA (Phone No.: +86 10 6518 3126 |*: laurie-odonnell@cornerstone-group.com) Cornerstone International Group, China has been active in the China Market for over 22 years. We focus on Executive Search and Executive Coaching. We have a team of over 70 professional search consultants located inseven offices […]