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Greg Bustin Executive Leadership Blog

Tap into the insights of a seasoned business consultant who’s walked in the shoes of CEOs. Greg Bustin has worked with executives from companies of all sizes in dozens of industries. He has led more than 150 sessions as a strategic planning facilitator, run nearly 200 leadership development workshops throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe, and conducted more than 1,600 executive coaching sessions with senior executives. Let Greg’s wisdom and “Tough Love” insights inspire you to improve performance and own your future.

Top 10 Performance Hurdles

Tuesday, March 05, 2013

In the last six weeks I led strategic planning sessions for three successful companies in Maryland, Florida and North Carolina.  click here for more...

Elephant Hunting

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Every organization has problems that need fixing. 

Unfortunately, not every problem that needs fixing is acknowledged.

Between now and year-end, leaders are presented with an ideal way of getting tough issues out on the table so they can be acknowledged, debated and dealt with.

The venue is a strategic planning meeting.  The process is “elephant hunting.”  And the time is now:  nearly 70% of the more than 150 strategic planning workshops I’ve led occur between Labor Day and Christmas.

At some point during a strategic planning session I’ll ask the question:  What’s the biggest elephant in the room that we’re not talking about?

If the troubling issue that’s making everyone in the room uncomfortable isn’t addressed, your planning session is a waste of time, money and energy.

Not addressing meaty issues is one of the Top 10 Biggest Mistakes of Strategic Planning sessions.

Make sure you go elephant hunting this fall.

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Past, Present or Future

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Most people are hired or promoted largely because of who they used to be.  There's a tendency to look back at past experience and accomplishments and then attempt to project that historical performance into the future.

We'd do well to remember the disclaimer wealth management firms use: past performance is no guarantee of future results.  click here for more...

Massage Your Business

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

My wife and I recently traveled to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with our good friends Georgia and Tom Davis and two other couples.
Several of us got massages while we were there, and it occurred to me that a good massage is like a good #strategic planning session:  click here for more...


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