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Organizations Designed for Growth & Vitality

Aug 12, 2020
3 min

Organizations Designed for Growth & Vitality

As the world’s best leaders develop strategies and business models to ensure growth in the volatile, unpredictable, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world, leadership itself is evolving. Leaders are designing organizations strategically to create autopoietic systems (auto-poy-etic systems: life-sustaining systems that reproduce and perpetuate themselves automatically). When designed well, they cut waste and weed out unhealthy processes. Creating and maintaining autopoietic s

Mentoring & Reverse Mentoring are Critical Success Factors

Gregory Buschman, Ph.D.(c)

Aug 12, 2020
3 min

Mentoring & Reverse Mentoring are Critical Success Factors

The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects, “between 2014 and 2024, 36.4 million workers will enter the labor force, and 28.6 million will leave”. Its statistics reveal that the makeup of the workforce is changing; it is getting older. Considering the changes coming and the effects they will have on team power, leaders need to re-evaluate their current workgroup makeup. If the team mix doesn’t represent members from all stages of life and different skillsets, change it. St

Appreciative Inquiry and Inter-Generational Leadership

Gregory Buschman, Ph.D.(c)

Aug 12, 2020
3 min

Appreciative Inquiry and Inter-Generational Leadership

Appreciative Inquiry (AI). It is a set of skills based on positive psychology and the idea of creating a safe environment where people feel free to share and contribute. It is a positive, healthy leadership strategy and all of the generations are drawn to it. America’s culture of freedom connects all the generations in the American workforce. Our free market system is what made our economy the greatest on earth. Current and emerging leaders should develop these skills. AI sk

Team Leadership, Is Like Navigating a Winding Road

Gregory Buschman, Ph.D.(c)

Aug 12, 2020
2 min

Team Leadership, Is Like Navigating a Winding Road

Imagine it’s a typical day in the office, and Monday morning's 11:00 am team meeting has just ended...Bob and Bill, a Boomer and a Gen Xer leave angrily... “Bill, what heck the was that?! These damn Millennials are so arrogant it’s unbelievable, can you believe Arden just let his team run off at the mouth. Does he think he can come in here and take over?” Bill responds, “I hear ya, Bob. He’s the FNG! Who does he think he is? They all think they’re entitled to everything

Great Leaders Are Like Plutonium, They Radiate Energy

Gregory Buschman, Ph.D.(c)

Aug 12, 2020
2 min

Great Leaders Are Like Plutonium, They Radiate Energy

Leaders can either empower teams and organizations or destroy them. Positive leadership skills fuel the engines of innovation and growth. Negative fear-based, micromanagement throttles creativity and chokes out team power. Leadership is part art and part science. Great leaders are not born great. They learn the art and science of leadership over time, with experience, and through education. One of the most important ideas in leadership development is the concept of “Us

Unresolved Conflict: The Silent Assassin

Greg Buschman, Ph.D.(c)

Jul 13, 2020
5 min

Unresolved Conflict: The Silent Assassin

In one of Matthew McConaughey’s latest movies “The Englishmen,” the movie opens to a scene where he is sitting comfortably at a table in his pub. As the leader and kingpin of his organization, he feels extremely safe in his establishment. Then, in the background we see a silent assassin pull out a gun with a silencer, point it at McConaughey’s character Michael Pearson, a shot rings out, and the scene fades out (Richie, 2019). Unresolved conflict is a silent killer of lead

Greg Buschman, Ph.D.(c)

Mar 27, 2020
4 min

15 Ways to Bust Work Stress

15 Easy Ways to Bust Work Stress The average American man works 8.73 hours per day. If you feel like you need 8.7 hours in a day just to meet all of your deadlines, then you have a bigger problem than drowning under your inbox: You're setting yourself up for heart disease, finds a new study published online today in The Lancet. The study looked at workers under "job strain." That's just a fancy way of saying that you 1) have piles of work to do, and 2) feel like you have zero

International Woman's Day: Let's Eliminate the Gender Wage Gap in America

Greg Buschman, Ph.D.(c)

Mar 6, 2020
4 min

International Woman's Day: Let's Eliminate the Gender Wage Gap in America

Equal work as defined and mandated by the Equal Pay Act (EPA) of 1963, which protects against wage discrimination based on gender. It uses six elements to ascertain wage (in)equality: Skill: As measured by experience, ability, education, and training required to fulfill a specific job a person performs for remuneration, Effort: As measured by the degree of physical or mental exertion needed to perform the job, Responsibility: As measured by the amount of accountability needed

The Millennial Workforce: Managing A Kaleidoscope of Assumptions, Beliefs, and Norms

Gregory Buschman, PhDc, Organizational Leadership

Jan 28, 2019
4 min

The Millennial Workforce: Managing A Kaleidoscope of Assumptions, Beliefs, and Norms

If you graduated high school or college before the year 2000 you will want to take notes…Today’s effective leaders are double-loop learners, who can motivate not only their own generation but today’s Millennial based workforce as well. What do double-loop leaders look like we ask? Leaders who understand that as time, generations, and societies change, so must their foundational assumptions, beliefs, and norms from which they lead. Historically based leadership methods and lea

Winning The Hearts of Millennial's Through Sustainable Leadership

Gregory Buschman, PhDc, Organizational Leadership

Oct 28, 2018
3 min

Winning The Hearts of Millennial's Through Sustainable Leadership

Traditionally there are three G’s of growth; consistent growth, competitive growth, and profitable growth. However, in today’s business envi

by Larry R. Buschman

Jul 13, 2018
4 min

Good Leaders And "The Golden Rule"

Just Say Yes In our modern fast-paced society it seems that few are willing to volunteer to take a leadership position; but, when asked, people are willing to do much as a follower. Many reasons can be cited for this phenomenon; but, as it relates to leadership, it indicates that the single largest step toward being a leader is the willingness to say, “I will.” Try it the next time someone says, “I need someone to ….” Of course, once having volunteered to lead, one must ask,

Gregory A. Buschman, PhDc

Jul 10, 2018
10 min

Mentoring the New Wave of Leaders

Emerging Leadership: Mentoring the New Wave of GenX & Millennial Leaders This article seeks to reveal harmful and helpful leadership styles so that the new wave of GenX and Millennial leaders may learn from their predecessors and find sources of mentorship even if from afar. Leadership Skills Which Result in Compliance and Resentment In the early years, Jack was devoted to technical knowledge and expertise. His work ethic was reflected in the fact that he worked long hours, w

By Greg Buschman, PhDc

Jun 23, 2018
6 min

How to Identify Potential Leaders

Competent leaders are transformational, they build teams, and get results and thereby have sustainable performance. Studies show that only 2

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