What makes a company “future ready”? The author analyzed top companies by revenue across four sectors, measuring seven equally weighted factors, then analyzed what leading companies were doing differently. They discovered industry-specific insights, which also informed more universal lessons. First, don’t play zero-sum games with disruptors. Looking at the financial industry, companies that explored new […]
Archives for March 2022
3 Exercises to Boost Your Team’s Creativity
Organizations today spend great sums of money on creativity training, hoping that it will spur innovative and entrepreneurial thinking among the ranks. Unfortunately, most of this training just doesn’t work. Why not? Because it puts too much faith in the powers of “divergent thinking,” or the random generation of new ideas, a process most of […]
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 […]
Rethinking Your Approach to the Employee Experience
Human resources leaders commonly assume that for a company to stand out as a great place to work, it must deliver competitive perks everything from skills training to pet insurance to foosball. New research finds that this view is outdated: Engagement and retention don’t correlate with benefits awards. Employees have begun looking beyond material offerings […]
Innovating your work culture and EVP: Where does purpose fit into the business strategy?
With increasing certainty, one can consider that the year 2022 will rely on a hybrid working model, even Forrester analyst Sharyn Leaver has predicted that 60% of organizations will shift to a hybrid model in 2022, but one-third will fail in their first attempt at anywhere work. One of the reasons for this failure can […]
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 […]
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 […]
5 Tips To Becoming A Great Manager
There is no doubt that without having a dedicated workforce, achieving success as an organization is not possible, and rightly so. Hardworking, honest employees and managers are one of the reasons behind many booming businesses. Today, organizations seek to hire a workforce that is capable, committed, and loyal to the organization. And to ensure that […]
10 Ways Boards Can Act on Sustainability in 2022
Climate change is now firmly on the agenda for boards. Yet a gap remains between what directors say about climate change (essentially, that’s it’s a critical strategic issue) and what their companies do about climate change (essentially, very little). Based on a survey of dozens of directors in 43 countries, ten pieces of advice emerged […]