Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaThe Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) industry is one of India's fastest-evolving sectors. Digital banking, fintech innovation, AI-driven financial services, stricter regulatory compliance, cybersecurity threats, and changing customer expectations have transformed how organizations operate and compete. As businesses adapt...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaWhy more Indian boards are treating interim leadership as a deliberate strategy, not a stopgap In my years leading executive search and leadership advisory work, I've sat with boards mid-crisis asking a version of the same question: we need a leader in this...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaExecutive coaching helps leaders improve workplace management by giving them something almost no one else in their organisation will — an honest, structured mirror on how their behaviour actually lands on the people around them. In two decades of executive search, I've seen coaching...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaLeadership personality shapes organisational culture more directly than any values statement or policy document — employees experience culture through how their leader actually behaves, not what the company says it stands for. This is the first thing I assess in any...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaCommon leadership mistakes that hurt business growth rarely show up as one dramatic failure — they build quietly, through small, repeated behaviours a leader doesn't realise are compounding. Over two decades of executive search, I've seen the same handful of patterns derail otherwise capable...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaLeadership hiring is one of the most important decisions an organization can make. The right executive can drive innovation, improve business performance, strengthen organizational culture, and position a company for long-term success. On the other hand, hiring the wrong leader...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaMicromanagement in the workplace is one of the fastest ways a capable leader quietly damages a high-performing team — and it is a pattern I have pushed back against since my earliest days managing people, having seen upfront how much...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaLeadership styles in the workplace decide more outcomes than most boardrooms give them credit for — I have watched the same P&L target hit by two leaders with completely different results six months later, purely because of how they led,...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaTransformational leadership and micromanagement sit at opposite ends of the same question: how much does a leader trust their team to get to the outcome without them? I ask this question in almost every senior search we run, because the...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone India Executive decision making is the process by which C-suite leaders navigate high-stakes, often ambiguous choices — under time pressure, with incomplete information, and with consequences that compound across the entire organisation. It is also, in 2026, one of the most visible...
