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  (Ed: Ginger Duncan (Cornerstone Nashville) is at the leading edge of new integrated onboarding strategies to get a new leader up and running quickly. But there’s a downside. Ginger sends along this curated article from HBR on the danger of quick wins. 1st of 2 parts. As soon as a new leader steps into […]

  Asking open-ended questions is one of the most productive coaching techniques. Conflict shows up every day in our lives in one form or another. It can be over which route you take to a destination or a tough situation at work. Taking time to think it through and ask more questions is typically when […]

Learning agility is an important universal indication of top talent. Paired with adaptability it is one of the essential characteristics of innovative leadership and agile talent.” Recently in Thailand, on the occasion of the annual global conference of Cornerstone International Group, I presented to a group of local CEOs on how to select tomorrow’s Top […]

    This is the fourth of four articles digging into cultures aligned with the four fundamental strategies: Independent design, Stable production, Interdependent delivery and Flexibility. A culture of flexibility is – wait for it – flexible. Its people are going to be all over the map. When you focus people on service or customer […]

ATLANTA, GA.  August 16, 2018 –   Concerns over the loss of company values may be delaying adoption of the gig economy, according to a new survey. In the gig economy, freelance and contract workers will replace much of the salaried workforce.  The Harvard Business Review finds 150 million salaried workers have already been displaced, with […]

Are you gearing up for the gig economy ? Although HBR believes 150 million workers have already left the organized workforce to work as independent contractors, our latest survey finds business leaders are still more comfortable with full-time employees. Their biggest concern is a decline in knowledge and sharing of company values by freelancers and […]

  This is the third of four articles digging into cultures aligned with the four key strategies. Following independent design and stable production, this deals with a culture of interdependence in support of a delivery strategy. It’s all about enrolling diverse players across the ecosystem. A culture of interdependence is a blended culture. The predominant […]

This is the second of four articles digging into cultures aligned with four key strategies – Independence, Stability, Interdependence and Flexibility.  Here, George Bradt deals with a culture of stability in support of a production strategy. It’s all about ensuring reliability. A culture of stability is more results-focused, authority-driven, formal, hierarchical, directed and closed. Expect […]

Since you should align your culture, organization and operations around one of four strategies, it’s helpful to flesh out what the four different cultures mean. In the first of four articles, George Bradt digs into a culture of INDEPENDENCE – unleashing individual creativity and invention A culture of independence is more open, diffused, caring, flexible, […]