Employees are encouraged to recognize and maintain a clear distinction between suitable professional interaction and patronizing behavior toward their supervisors. While most workers naturally seek positive relationships with their superiors and hope their performance will be acknowledged, my experience is that excessive or sycophantic behavior...
I realize that my statement may not set well with some people and may arguably be unfair, but it is made based on extensive experience and a fair degree of scar tissue. I hope that my candor and experiences will be helpful to executives as...
In our previous parts, Keith Bushey gave you the foundation and the daily disciplines and he taught you how to protect your people, your organization, and your own integrity when trouble is still only a faint cloud on the horizon. Now we reach the summit—the practices that...
Parts 1–5 gave us the foundation. Parts 6–10 demanded that we show up with clarity, courage, and an uncompromising commitment to the mission and the people entrusted to us. Now we move into the realm of mature, battle-tested leadership—the practices that separate those who merely occupy...
Personal Habits, Communication, and the Example You Set We're back with Parts 2 through 5 of Developing & Enhancing a Leadership Persona, the latest series from The Bushey Perspective by Keith Bushey. In this section Keith continues his candid exploration of leadership fundamentals—this time focusing on...
At Embassy Consulting Services, we’re proud to introduce The Bushey Perspective—a recurring series of leadership articles written by Keith Bushey, whose decades of service and “in-the-trenches” experience inform every paragraph. To honor Keith’s style, we publish his work as he writes it: candid, practical, and...
The newest member of the Embassy Team has over forty years of extraordinary experience in multiple law enforcement agency and is well-known throughout our profession. Keith Bushey retired from the Los Angeles Police Department as a commander, from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department as...