Greg Bustin Executive Leadership Blog

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...

A troubling game is starting to play out in the workplace.

The game is being played for high stakes among bosses and their direct reports at all levels of organizations.

Chief executives are playing it with their boards and partners. Senior executives on the leadership team are playing the game with their CEO. And staff members are playing it with their supervisors.

Call the game “Misalignment.”  click here for more...

In the 1960s, 70 million children from the post-war baby boom became teenagers and young adults.

Concurrent with this phenomenon – or perhaps because of it – cultural change accelerated as the unprecedented size of this group and its members’ newfound power, abundance and willingness to challenge conventional thinking reshaped music, fashion, societal norms, education, politics and the workplace.

Some of this change was refreshing and helpful.  Some was not.

At the time, differences between Boomers (an endearing term applied years later) and their more conservative parents were explained as The Generation Gap.

At the core of the generational differences was a belief codified as “Don’t trust anyone over 30.”

Well, my friends, a gap is back.  And it’s inside your organization.  click here for more...