Greg Bustin Executive Leadership Blog

One of the most important questions you’ll ever ask of someone – whether posed outright to the person or asked silently in your head and pondered in your heart – is, “Can I count on you?” 

High-performing organizations are built on a foundation of trust. 

Colleagues count on each other to do the things they promise to do. Accountability is doing what you said you would do in the timeframe you agreed to do it.   click here for more...

It's the dawn of a New Year. Make any resolutions? 
Studies show that the resolutions most of us make last three to five weeks. 
In the strategic planning sessions I lead and the coaching sessions I conduct, I help CEOs and leadership teams set individual and organizational goals and objectives. And I act as a sort of human cattle prod to hold them accountable to the goals they have pinpointed as important to them.   click here for more...

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
What’s your most precious commodity?
It’s time. Because, once you lose it, you never get it back.   click here for more...

In 2005, I became a Chair for Vistage International.
My charge then as now was to assemble a group of 16 owners, partners, presidents and CEOs from non-competing businesses and then spend a day together each month guiding these leaders through a process of self-discovery, decision-making and – ultimately – accountability to produce better results.
Today, I lead three such groups, and I learn just as much from the men and women leaders in my groups as they learn from one another and me.  click here for more...

“Let him that would move the world first move himself.” - Socrates 

You’ve probably heard of the Socratic Method, but what is it exactly and what does it mean for you today?

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Forty-eight years ago today, our third grade teacher sent us home early.

President Kennedy had been fatally wounded.

From the time John Kennedy took office to that fateful day in November 1963, JFK was in office just two years, 10 months and three days. 

1,036 days earlier, in an inauguration speech delivered on a bitterly cold January day, President Kennedy painted a bright new future. Not just for Americans, but for every citizen of the world.  click here for more...

As the Penn State debacle deepens, I’m reminded of Ben Franklin’s quote that “It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.”

Regardless of who’s right and who’s wrong, or who knew what when, the tragic series of events unfolding in the Pennsylvania hills has the school and individuals working overtime on damage control.  click here for more...