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Our Approach
Architecting Client Growth
Our approach is simple: we architect client growth.
The Cornerstone Organizational Operating System (COOS) increases operational clarity, sales revenue, and profitability by building disciplined leadership, culture, strategy, and communication.
Cornerstones pivot organizations toward sustainable competitive advantage.
“Cornerstones ask organizations to operate in a way that makes transactional customer satisfaction, repeat loyalty, and profitability inevitable.”
What Is COOS?
COOS is a scalable operating system for organizations of any size.
It integrates Leadership, Culture, Strategy, and Communication into one aligned framework. It replaces ambiguity with clear, systematized behavior.
“Culture is the operating system of the organization—leadership defines it, communication energizes it, strategy tests it.”
How COOS Works
Most systems focus on process or compliance.
Cornerstones focus on the source: management behavior and organizational discipline.
COOS strengthens the human foundation that allows other systems—Lean, EOS, ISO, CRM, strategy frameworks—to perform as designed.
“Leadership should be the most defined behavior in the organization, not the most ambiguous.”
The Five Cornerstone Behaviors
At the core of COOS are five defining behaviors:
- Management Integrity
- Equal Accountability
- Self-Management
- Talent Architecture
- Behavioral Guidance
These behaviors stabilize execution, align expectations, and convert strategy into measurable performance.
“Leadership should be the most defined behavior in the organization, not the most ambiguous.”
Development Programs
Cornerstone management and sales programs are customized and turnkey.
Available through train-the-trainer or on-site facilitation, they build practical behaviors that drive performance.
“Leaders don’t manage people — they stabilize the environment that allows people to manage themselves and exceed customer expectations.”
COOS is not advice.
It is a system that drives clarity, stability, and growth.
“Clarity and stability govern behavior. Scale magnifies what’s already stable — or unstable.”
For more information contact Paul R. Fournier
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“Behavior is the only form of leadership that scales.”
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“Anonymous Cultures, The Silent Majority”
Anonymous Cultures, The Silent Majority offers knowledge and guidance in leadership, culture, strategy, and communication. Each are Cornerstones of growth. Learn how these business models and practices can enhance your career and organization.
“Change – Becoming a Confident and Bold Leader”
26 Articles on empowering your Cornerstones. Each contribute to greater Leadership, Culture, Strategy and Communication in your career and organization.
Thought provoking articles for management and entrepreneur’s seeking a different path. Change begins with you. Learn how confidence and bold action begins with Cornerstones.
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Fournier Strategies supports free, fair, and equivalent global trade. The Cornerstone Operating System (COOS) facilitates the success of all sized organizations throughout the world.