Greg Bustin Executive Leadership Blog

In the last 30 days, I’ve led four strategic planning sessions for companies in four different industries: financial services, healthcare staffing, heating & air conditioning and window coverings.   click here for more...

As inevitably as the seasons change, thousands of companies every year shut their doors because of the leadership team’s failure to develop a written plan and then implement it. Tens of thousands of other companies fail to reach their full potential for the same reason.  click here for more...

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
~ Plato (BC 427-BC 347)

You wouldn’t build a house without a blueprint. Why would you build your business without a written plan?   click here for more...

The general who orchestrated D-Day – General Dwight Eisenhower – said, “In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”  click here for more...

Strategic planning season is upon us.

For organizations whose fiscal year ends December 31, the period between Labor Day and Thanksgiving is prime time for planning.

Vacations are over and there’s enough data from the current year to factor into your thinking about programs, people and budgets for the year ahead. Finish your planning by Thanksgiving and you’re ready to finalize budgets, fine-tune systems and make the necessary moves to start the new year fast.

Of the nearly 150 sessions I’ve led as a strategic planning facilitator, 64% have been held in the 83-day period between Labor Day and Thanksgiving.

Yet every year, leaders make the decision to not put their plans in writing.  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...

This January 2010 bulletin prompted Dallas Morning News columnist Cheryl Hall to feature Greg Bustin in a January 20, 2010 business article; the bulletin is being re-distributed due to popular response.

Happy New Year!
You probably know that the Roman god Janus is the origin of the month we call January.
And you’re likely aware that Janus was most often depicted with two faces looking in opposite directions because of his ability to look into the past and see into the future.
But did you know that Janus was frequently used to symbolize change and transitions such as the progression of the past into the future, of one vision to another, and of one condition to another?
It’s this notion of transitioning from one condition to another that I’ll address here.  click here for more...