Leslie Perlow: How to Have Your Downtime — Without Missing a Beat
Leslie Perlow isn't your typical workplace consultant. A Harvard Business School professor, she set out several years ago to cure the seemingly incurable: hard-charging management consultants...
How to Advance Your Career in a Workplace That Has No Boss
The modern workplace is all about being "flat" -- that is, eliminating the hierarchies, job titles, and traditional corner offices more associated with the Industrial Age than the Digital...
How to Hire in Hyper-Growth
Managing a successful company through periods of dramatic growth is a challenge most CEOs would love to have. But when it comes to hiring, it's much easier said than done -- and can often make or break...
Why Rotating Employees Through Your Company Is a Win-Win
The days of employees spending decades at a company -- and receiving a gold watch in gratitude -- are long gone. Workers today are constantly on the move, a fact of life that will only accelerate...
Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti Visits Cornerstone to Highlight the Role of “Silicon Beach” in L.A.’s Bright Future
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Eric Garcetti paid us a visit today, signaling the prominence of Cornerstone in the emerging tech community in L.A. Usually playing second fiddle to northern California’s...
How to Interview a Job Prospect – Over Skype
Marissa Mayer's get-your-butt-in-the-office-if-you-want-to-work-for-me attitude aside, the number of remote workers in the United States is climbing steadily. Today's employees of...
Quiet, Yes, But Introverts Can Be Your Best Performers
Introverts are a misunderstood bunch. They're often seen as standoffish, shy or lacking ideas, and can have trouble fitting into today's bustling and open workplaces. But just because they're...
Has Technology Made Us More Disconnected? 3 Easy Steps to Networking the Old-Fashioned Way
Not everyone was born to schmooze. Even extroverts at times stand anxiously in a crowd, sipping a cocktail and facing a sea of unfamiliar faces. But putting yourself out there, literally, still matters...
Social Performance Reviews: How to Get Started
Meeting with the boss behind closed doors for an annual performance run-down bottled up into an hour-long package seems outdated when you think about the direction company culture has headed in the past...
Is Your Company Ready for Total Transparency?
More companies these days are opening their books -- and databases and other records traditionally kept confidential -- to employees in the hopes of empowering workers, holding them accountable and, more...
