Excerpted from the book, Take Charge! How Leaders Profit From Change, by Greg Bustin.
Depending on the rigors of your job, the pressures you face, and your experience handling change, at some point you may consider working with an executive coach – either as part of your trusted circle of advisors, or outside it.
As a senior leader, you’ve achieved success based largely on your attitude, abilities and acuity. Your skills have been your transport to your position in life. The thought of needing a coach can seem bush league. The fact is that coaching elite-level athletes is really no different than coaching elite-level executives. (Continue Reading…)
Excerpted from the book, Take Charge! How Leaders Profit From Change, by Greg Bustin.
Starting a New Year focuses extra attention on goal-setting – and goal-getting.
But guess what? If certain steps are not taken during any goal-setting process, chances are great the objectives will not be achieved. In fact, the Journal of Clinical Psychology estimates that 36% of the people who make New Year’s resolutions break them or abandon them by January 31. (Continue Reading…)
Excerpted from the book, Take Charge! How Leaders Profit From Change, by Greg Bustin.
Nothing sets a top-performing company apart from the market like a team united around common understanding working a plan to achieve common goals.
Yet hundreds of organizations fail to achieve their objectives each year because they fail to overcome their assumptions about their colleagues, their company, and their competition. Did you know that only one in four companies integrate the annual planning process with implementation? (Continue Reading…)
Excerpted from the book, Take Charge! How Leaders Profit From Change, by Greg Bustin.
The line that separates successful companies from those that under-perform or fail altogether is often a fine one. Yet that line – while fine – is nevertheless distinct.
Last year, we compared a successful company to a failing company. We showed how two companies responded to similar challenges. These companies are not start-ups. They are well-established companies with millions of dollars in cash reserves, plenty of human resources, great customers and proven intellectual capital. (Continue Reading…)
Excerpted from the book, Take Charge! How Leaders Profit From Change, by Greg Bustin.
The year is now half over.
It’s a good time to catch your breath, assess your position and make any adjustments to finish the second half of 2005 strong. But this time of year also means that if you’ve not already achieved or made significant progress toward achieving the goals you set for yourself months ago, it will now take 50% more effort to accomplish what you said you wanted on January 1. (Continue Reading…)
Excerpted from the book, Take Charge! How Leaders Profit From Change, by Greg Bustin.
After three years of battling a recession, leaders are now focusing on corporate growth. Shaking the rust off growth engines that have not been cranked to capacity can require more effort and energy than you might first realize. Fortunately, there are some deceptively simple steps you can undertake to make the mental and physical changes that the better times demand. What are these steps? (Continue Reading…)
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