Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaChief Growth Officers are becoming critical for modern businesses because growth itself has stopped being any single function's job — it now sits across marketing, sales, product, and customer experience simultaneously, and someone senior needs to own it end to...
Reviewed By Vijay Karkare Managing Director @Cornerstone IndiaThe future of executive leadership is being rewritten faster than most boardrooms can update their succession plans — AI, geopolitical volatility, and shifting workforce expectations have converged in a way I haven't seen in twenty-plus years of executive search. The...
Startups are known for their innovation and fast growth. However, when it comes to building a strong leadership team, they face several challenges. The right leadership team can drive the company forward, while the wrong team can hold it back. In this blog, we’ll look at the...
Diverse leadership is not a compliance checkbox. It is a competitive advantage — and succession planning is where that advantage is either built or squandered. Here is why it matters, what is holding India back, and what boards can do about it. The reality India's Leadership Pipeline...
What gets measured gets managed — and what gets assessed with rigor gets hired with confidence. Cultural fit is simultaneously one of the most cited hiring criteria and one of the least rigorously assessed. At the executive level, this inconsistency is particularly costly. Organizations often rely...
Culture does not emerge from a values poster in the lobby. It is enacted — one leadership decision at a time. Ask ten executives to define their organization's culture, and nine will describe what they aspire it to be. Ask their employees, and you'll hear what it actually is. The gap...
When Technology Meets the Most Human Decision in Business By 2026, artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic concept in talent management — it is actively shaping how organizations identify, evaluate, and appoint their most critical leaders. What makes this shift significant is not the technology itself,...
Hiring leadership roles is a high-stakes decision. Hiring the wrong person at the executive level can slow down growth, change the culture, and cost a lot more than just the cost of hiring them. That's why a lot of companies use structured hiring help instead of informal referrals or quick...
I've watched this happen too many times. A company announces its expansion into a new market. There's excitement, capital is committed, and the board is confident. Eighteen months later, the whispers start: timelines have slipped, breakeven keeps moving further out, and everyone's wondering what went wrong. The usual suspects get...
When organizations talk about leadership, they often rely on familiar terms such as vision, confidence, and decision-making. Yet when senior leadership hires fail, the issue is rarely a lack of intelligence or experience. More often, it stems from the deeper qualities of a good leader not being...
