LEADERSHIP IS CHALLENGING YOURSELF TO BE BETTER

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LEADERSHIP IS CHALLENGING YOURSELF TO BE BETTER 

1.Leadership Live. Scott Humphrey tells the story of the full life of Julius Miller (aka Bronco Charlie) who was the youngest Pony Express Rider in history, had a friendship with President Teddy Roosevelt, performed in the Buffalo Bill Shows, fought in WW1 and on and on. https://youtu.be/wFiBcrT7YZ8. 2.Vistage Strategic Planning Tool. Based on the Vistage MemberSurveys, 74% of our membership wanted more help with Strategic Planning. Hence, Vistage has spent the past 2 years developing and curating a Strategic Planning Tool. Here is the link get started https://myvistage.com/strategy/.You can also find this by going into My Vistage. The initial feedback is that it is very user friendly and there are videos embedded to help guide you if you get stuck. 3.Technology Trends for 2026 and Beyond | Vistage. In Part II of our Trends series, Marc Emmer looks at technology trends facing small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in 2026 and beyond.

4.Using Value Creation to Turbocharge Your Business | Vistage. Discover how value creation formula can help you boost growth, reduce risk, and increase your company 's valuation.

5.Hybrid Work Isn't Dead. It's Being Optimized. With the explosion of AI, many leaders are leaving the traditional workplace in the rearview and leaning into hybrid work.

6.Tactical Panic: How Leaders Can Make Better Decisions WhenEverything Feels Urgent. When urgency replaces clarity, leaders default to tactical panic-doing more instead of seeing better. This Forbes piece explores how to stop the spiral.

7.Why Leaders Fail When They Choose Comfort Over Clarity. In the post-pandemic workplace, leaders must escape the "Validation Trap" by balancing kindness with accountability through a clear framework and practical systems that foster trust, clarity and resilience

We are All Gatekeepers Now. Our country has been through a lot in recent months with both conservatives and liberals being the target of what are supposedly politically motivated assassins. If we are to survive this trauma, WSJ Columnist and Reagan White House Speech Writer Peggy Noonan suggests we contemplate and embrace in our conduct “three truths. They are about personal as opposed to political behavior. ” In her September 18, WSJ recent column “Gatekeepers and National Traumas” , she reminds us that “We are all gatekeepers now” ….we must “Hold the Line” … and that “Class isn’t everything but it makes everything better. ” Spend a few minutes and be remined of our responsibilities to our society and each other.

The New Unemployables. Suzy Welch, NYU Business School Professor, former Harvard Business Review Publisher and widow of late GE CEO Jack Welch, published an article in which she rigorously researched a very challenging question. “Is Gen Z Unemployable?” In the past year other articles have explored why the Boomer executive cohort is so frustrated with Gen Z’s workplace behavior and performance, but the reasons offered were anecdotal and not supported by good research and hard data. Dr. Welch’s WSJ article explored the reasons for this, and it comes down to one word: Values. Any good relationship is characterized by some degree of shared values and work relationships are no different. Her shocking and disturbing finding is that there is an incredibly wide chasm between the core values of most employers and Gen Z. Specifically, only 2% of Gen Z hold the same values as employers. This minimal congruence of values means that every employer will be affected by this. If you have a WSJ Subscription, pls read her article “Is Gen Z Unemployable?” If you don’t subscribe to WSJ, this five minute interview with Dr. Welch on Fox Business will give you a good executive summary of this study and its implications. 

Corporate Ozempic. Artificial Intelligence is widely believed to be one of the greatest technological disruptions in economic history. While its impact is still unfolding in many industries, nowhere else has it promise, and threat, been more evident than Hollywood. Scott Galloway in his “No Mercy, No Malice” Blog describes the impact of AI as “Corporate Ozempic” and, as an example of how your industry might be affected in the future, tracks the current impact AI is having on the production of Hollywood films. Bad news for production teams as AI may reduce the need for these largely technical jobs by as much as 90 % according to Galloway. But there may be good news for another group. Find out who and why in his interesting and somewhat disturbing post “The End of The Blockbuster. ”

The Attainable Dream: Home Ownership. CNN’s Michael Smerconish interviewed a scholar sharing important research for young people in our lives: Is the American Dream Dead? Mr. Smerconish focuses on education and social factors. Economist Brian Wesbury, in his latest “Three on Thursday” post, looks at one of the foundations of that dream: home ownership. He writes “Housing in America is becoming increasingly out of reach. Home prices have surged far faster than household incomes, mortgage rates remain stuck in the mid-6% range—roughly double what buyers faced before 2022— and the ongoing costs of ownership keep rising. Higher property-tax bills added yet another burden in 2024…. Beneath these affordability pressures lies a deeper supply problem. ”Mr. Wesbury examines these economic factors in a concise (and kinda scary) one page post: “Is the American Dream Still Attainable?” These are serious obstacles, and you can urge the young people you care about to start planning to meet them. 

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Hello I’m Scott Bunce.

I lead Vistage CEO & C-Suite peer groups for growth and mentorship in the Greater Atlanta Area. It is an honor to facilitate productive and powerful conversations between local CEOs, business owners, and key executives.

 

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