Notes on leadership, measured.
Occasional writing from Corestar Partners on culture, leadership and what the data shows.
The thinking behind the number.
The Corestar Index for the FTSE 350: a new empirical framework to measure leadership performance.
The flagship paper. Every FTSE 350 chief executive scored on a seat-adjusted measure of leadership effect, with the top 99 published in full. Three findings: the difficulty of the job does not predict the leader, the conventional metrics hide capable people in the hardest seats, and women match men like for like — they simply get fewer of the seats.
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A briefing for executive search and leadership advisory. Introduces Stabilisation Efficiency: how separating a leader’s Personal Load from the Contextual Load they inherit produces a single, environment-adjusted measure of leadership effect, and the three archetypes it reveals: System Calmer, Stress Absorber and Anxiety Amplifier.
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The foundation paper. Introduces the CORE/DUAL framework: why culture crushes strategy, how the model reinterprets Schein’s Three Levels into Activity and Belief, the four systemic risks and four virtues, and how Corestar complements the Cultural Web, 7S and the Competing Values Framework.
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