Zhou Yiyan, founder of Yi Organizer, a studio dedicated to DE cluttering and better home organization, Had received inquiries from a Leading Property Developer in early March. Asking for suggestions to improve the design of its Showrooms to provide more space for disinfecting Products. This is quite surprising given the situation. Zhou, who was born […]
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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 […]
Expert Talk: Why machines will not completely replace labor-intensive, hands-on tasks
LeLainya Koutereba, Managing Director, Otis Southeast Asia & Singapore, shares her Experience working with Otis, Leadership style, Empowering Women Leaders, Safety Her view on Human Resources as a Business Function and how Innovation and Agility are significant to the future workforce. When asked what has been a driving passion for her job she said her […]
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 […]
Factbox: China’s progress on business resumption
Amid the further containment of COVID-19, China is powering ahead by returning to work and resuming business and production. The following are the latest facts and figures: Chinese firms signed service outsourcing contracts worth approximately 374.39 billion yuan (about 54.58 billion U.S. dollars) during the first four months, down 6 percent year-on-year, data from the […]
Expand focus, extend influence: How HR will change in the coming decade
In the new world of work, HR needs to be one of the expanded focus and extended influence. According to Deloitte’s 10th annual 2020 Global Human Capital Trends report, while HR has managed to make a difference over the past 10 years, progress cannot stop here. Despite 65% of global respondents reporting that HR has made progress over […]
Life Sciences & Healthcare Face Challenges in 2020
BEIJING, CN. May 26, 2020 – The global industry leading the fight against COVID-19 will be one of those facing fundamental change in the aftermath, according to a new survey. “We completed a global survey of the Life Sciences and Healthcare industry just weeks before the pandemic hit,” says team leader Eric Bouteiller of Cornerstone […]
Organizational stress amid the pandemic and how businesses are coping
A just-published report by Asianet has shed light on the impact of the pandemic on business worldwide, with a particular focus on the financial pressures, they have experienced and how well they have adapted to working remotely. Business finance and liquidity were more than half (57%) of respondents – with small companies (61%) experiencing greater […]
Post Covid: Coaching Starts at Home
Each person on our team has had his or her own unique experience. Same crisis, different realities.