Spring training has begun for major league baseball. Every team starts the year focused on the same objective: become a World Series champion. To win it all, teams must win …

In the last six weeks I led strategic planning sessions for three successful companies in Maryland, Florida and North Carolina. Three different industries. Three different cultures. Three different sets of …

How to Win in Business and in Football To reach Super Bowl XLVII, 12 teams played 10 games. Four storylines emerged that remind us of what it takes to win …

Starting today, nearly 1,000 people from at least a dozen countries will begin arriving in Dallas for the Vistage International Conference. The successful men and women executives gathering for the …

Our family is somewhere in Africa. We are on a search for the Big Five:  Lion, African elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros. As you begin a new year, what …

Happy New Year! Did you take time during the holidays to relax, reflect and recharge? I hope so. Because here we go again. Another lap around the track. A leader’s …

Every year, organizations develop strategic plans to improve their performance. And every year, most of those plans fail. Click here for Bustin & Co.’s Top 10 Performance Hurdles list which …

Year-End Reflection As we navigate the year-end parties, shopping, travel and all the other hustle and bustle of the December holidays, we’ll eventually get around to remembering the reason for …

Tomorrow is Halloween. Here are three scary questions about life that terrify a lot of successful people: 1.       For what am I searching that will give my life purpose and …

How to Collaborate To get from Point A to Point B requires a plan and the commitment of your team. To achieve commitment, involve the leaders that will be held …

Addressing the Elephant in the Room 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 …

The death last week of astronaut Neil Armstrong marked the remembrance of a bygone era. Armstrong, of course, was the first man to walk on the moon along with colleague …

The 30th Olympiad opened 10 days ago, attracting nearly 11,000 athletes from 204 countries competing in about 300 events. Modern era games have come a long way from the ancient …

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 …

Recession Recovery As businesses emerge from the worst recession in 80 years, many leaders of small and mid-sized businesses find that they’ve been pulled into operations during recession recovery. Over …

What’s your most productive day at work? In the Northern Hemisphere, the summer solstice occurs tomorrow and some leaders believe the extra sunlight makes them more productive. (In the Southern …

Winning and Losing: Horse Races and Business You probably know that the day before Belmont, the favorite horse in the race – I’ll Have Another – was scratched, abandoning an …

Think back 137 days to New Year’s Eve. Even if you didn’t purposefully say or write down a couple of things you wanted to accomplish in 2012, you at least …

March Madness in the NCAA basketball world is drawing to a close with teams in the Final Four playing their games this weekend and the championship game set for Monday, …

Setting New Year’s Resolutions: Defy Failure This Year It’s the dawn of a New Year. Are you setting New Year’s resolutions? Studies show that the resolutions most of us make …