For a Fulfilling Life, You Need to Answer These Questions Sooner or Later Last month, we examined ten questions you should be asking about strategic planning. Today we’ll address seven questions everyone needs to answer—sooner or …

Happy New Year! Are you kidding? No, I’m not. While it may not be January, this time of year often feels like a new beginning. For those with kids and …

When You’re Done Learning, You’re Done Leading Every summer since 2018 I’ve shared reading recommendations because leaders are readers (and listeners of books and podcasts). Here are my picks for …

Five Steps to High Performance The year is half over. Are you where you expected to be? Or is your finely tuned machine starting to cough and sputter and drag? …

Reminders of Persistence, Potential and Performance A version of this blog first appeared in Greg Bustin’s book Decision Time: Inspiration, Insight & Wisdom from History’s Make-or-Break Moments. You’ve heard that it was twenty years ago today that Sergeant Pepper taught the …

Free eBook with 30 Truths from 30 Years in Business In four days, I’m headed to the UK for my fourth (and, likely, final) international speaking tour. I’ll be delivering two …

Some Leaders Can’t Handle the Truth The CEO of my business unit’s parent company called me to his office to tell me he had acquired a cross-town rival. My former …

Five (not so) New Laws of Leadership Where were you five years ago when the world shut down? I was returning to Dallas after speaking to Kansas City Vistage Chair Jeff Hutsell’s groups. Immediately …

Timeless Leadership Lessons We can’t get enough of Abraham Lincoln. It’s not just because Americans celebrate his birthday every year. This year, February 17 is designated as Presidents Day, combining …

Saying One Thing but Doing Another A version of this blog was posted in January 2010. Over the past fifteen years of working with leaders in a range of companies, …

What Blessings Might You Be Overlooking? Today is Election Day in America. By tomorrow (we hope), we’ll know who will be leading our country for the next four years. Not …

What Results Does Your Culture Produce? A version of this blog was posted in October 2015. In October 2024, Georgia and Tom Davis celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary and have invited …

Advice I Wish I’d Gotten Sooner I developed my entrepreneurial spirit leading a division of Tracy-Locke and later an office of Edelman Worldwide. These two firms prized outcomes over bureaucracy …

Who Are Your A, B & C Players? As a new football season approaches, coaches are assigning grades to players and finalizing depth charts. Top leaders should do likewise as strategic …

If Ever There Was a Time to Slow Down and Re-Calibrate It’s Now Every summer since 2017 I’ve shared reading recommendations because leaders are readers. Here are my picks for …

80th Anniversary of D-Day Thursday marks the 80th anniversary of D-Day. This post is an excerpt from Greg Bustin’s Decision Time: Inspiration, Insight & Wisdom from History’s Make-or-Break Moments.  That the Allied invasion …

Are You Getting Bad Behavior? Look in the Mirror. Accountability is one of the most important factors in determining the success of an individual, a team or an enterprise. It’s also …

Do We Have a Culture of Performance or a Culture of Excuses? By now you’ve probably learned that the upcoming total solar eclipse is pretty rare, occurring every four hundred years …

Where’s Your Accountability Chokepoint? What percentage of the work planned by you and your leaders actually gets done? Or gets done on time without moving deadlines? Or gets done right …

What’s Your Leadership Style? Whether you’re casting a vision, announcing a new initiative, reporting results or addressing a crisis, you’re selling an idea. Selling is part of the art of …