Comments on: Leadership Caffeine-The Times Choose the Leaders. Is it your time? http://artpetty.com/2009/09/20/leadership-caffeine-the-times-choose-the-leaders-is-it-your-time/ Leadership, Management and Professional Development Mon, 21 May 2012 11:19:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Sudhir Mathew http://artpetty.com/2009/09/20/leadership-caffeine-the-times-choose-the-leaders-is-it-your-time/#comment-10854 Sudhir Mathew Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:28:19 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=2491#comment-10854 Art, Great article, I was particularly touched by "What they understood was that victory was an outcome of a process that took fear and uncertainty and distilled it into focus on smaller goals and actions to reach those goals". So important for a leader to keep the end goal in mind and then to break down the big goal into small goals that are achieved through perseverence and hardwork. Along the way comes a great deal of risk-taking, shortage of resources, budget cuts, and all the other challenges of managing day-to-day work. When employees are taking pay-cuts and jobs disappear around you, it is so difficult to inspire and promise the rest of us that victory and success is within sight and very much achievable. And once one battle is won, there is the next one to fight. As leaders, that's what we work for and we need to remind and convince ourselves every morning when getting out of bed. Thank you for your inspiring article. Sudhir Art,
Great article, I was particularly touched by “What they understood was that victory was an outcome of a process that took fear and uncertainty and distilled it into focus on smaller goals and actions to reach those goals”. So important for a leader to keep the end goal in mind and then to break down the big goal into small goals that are achieved through perseverence and hardwork. Along the way comes a great deal of risk-taking, shortage of resources, budget cuts, and all the other challenges of managing day-to-day work. When employees are taking pay-cuts and jobs disappear around you, it is so difficult to inspire and promise the rest of us that victory and success is within sight and very much achievable. And once one battle is won, there is the next one to fight. As leaders, that’s what we work for and we need to remind and convince ourselves every morning when getting out of bed.

Thank you for your inspiring article.

Sudhir

]]> By: Wally Bock http://artpetty.com/2009/09/20/leadership-caffeine-the-times-choose-the-leaders-is-it-your-time/#comment-10845 Wally Bock Wed, 23 Sep 2009 22:08:07 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=2491#comment-10845 Congratulations! This post was selected as one of the five best independent business blog posts of the week in my Three Star Leadership Midweek Review of the Business Blogs. http://blog.threestarleadership.com/2009/09/23/92309-midweek-look-at-the-independent-business-blogs.aspx Wally Bock Congratulations! This post was selected as one of the five best independent business blog posts of the week in my Three Star Leadership Midweek Review of the Business Blogs.

http://blog.threestarleadership.com/2009/09/23/92309-midweek-look-at-the-independent-business-blogs.aspx

Wally Bock

]]> By: Mark Allen Roberts http://artpetty.com/2009/09/20/leadership-caffeine-the-times-choose-the-leaders-is-it-your-time/#comment-10732 Mark Allen Roberts Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:34:14 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=2491#comment-10732 Great job Art, As leaders, we need to do what General Patton did, identify the roadblocks, shoot the jack ass, and throw it off the bridge to keep our teams on our flight plan to success. Mark Allen Roberts www.nosmokeandmirorrs.com Great job Art,

As leaders, we need to do what General Patton did, identify the roadblocks, shoot the jack ass, and throw it off the bridge to keep our teams on our flight plan to success.

Mark Allen Roberts
http://www.nosmokeandmirorrs.com

]]> By: Art Petty http://artpetty.com/2009/09/20/leadership-caffeine-the-times-choose-the-leaders-is-it-your-time/#comment-10715 Art Petty Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:11:16 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=2491#comment-10715 Garrick, well-said with the windshield metaphor! Thanks as well for catching the view that I was after...great leaders in the midst of their struggles. As much as we provide them mythical and all-knowing status, they were simple humans with fears, concerns, doubts and of course, remarkable tenacity. Love the quote!!! Thanks for adding your always thoughtful comments. -Art Garrick, well-said with the windshield metaphor! Thanks as well for catching the view that I was after…great leaders in the midst of their struggles. As much as we provide them mythical and all-knowing status, they were simple humans with fears, concerns, doubts and of course, remarkable tenacity. Love the quote!!! Thanks for adding your always thoughtful comments. -Art

]]> By: garrick http://artpetty.com/2009/09/20/leadership-caffeine-the-times-choose-the-leaders-is-it-your-time/#comment-10714 garrick Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:06:59 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=2491#comment-10714 I really enjoyed this post Art. Your to-do list is honest, applicable, and realistic given the challenges we currently face. I have found the current, "do more with less," challenges we face to be a true differentiator for leaders. Those that look out the front windshield, as opposed to the rear view mirror, are able to communicate hope in the future through their vision. Those that remain stuck staring at the rear view mirror simply crash. One key to leadership is to know when to glance at the rear view mirror to merely gain insight. ..."Washington, Franklin, Lincoln and Roosevelt, Churchill or Eisenhower and his generals knew whether they would succeed, much less how to pull it off." This statement was powerful to me. It is one thing to study the results of their leadership, but their success takes on a whole new meaning when you envision them in their struggles to succeed. I grew up in The Land of Lincoln, and so I think this quote is fitting. "Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other." Abraham Lincoln I really enjoyed this post Art. Your to-do list is honest, applicable, and realistic given the challenges we currently face. I have found the current, “do more with less,” challenges we face to be a true differentiator for leaders. Those that look out the front windshield, as opposed to the rear view mirror, are able to communicate hope in the future through their vision. Those that remain stuck staring at the rear view mirror simply crash. One key to leadership is to know when to glance at the rear view mirror to merely gain insight.
…”Washington, Franklin, Lincoln and Roosevelt, Churchill or Eisenhower and his generals knew whether they would succeed, much less how to pull it off.”
This statement was powerful to me. It is one thing to study the results of their leadership, but their success takes on a whole new meaning when you envision them in their struggles to succeed. I grew up in The Land of Lincoln, and so I think this quote is fitting. “Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.” Abraham Lincoln

]]> By: Art Petty http://artpetty.com/2009/09/20/leadership-caffeine-the-times-choose-the-leaders-is-it-your-time/#comment-10687 Art Petty Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:13:02 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=2491#comment-10687 Alicia, wow, thanks for sharing what you gained from the post. I gained a lot just from reading your comments! Monica, thanks for sharing. I agree that there is much to be gained from past leaders, and I am glad that I leave you energized and thinking! Your comments do the same for me. Best, Art Alicia, wow, thanks for sharing what you gained from the post. I gained a lot just from reading your comments!

Monica, thanks for sharing. I agree that there is much to be gained from past leaders, and I am glad that I leave you energized and thinking! Your comments do the same for me.

Best, Art

]]> By: Monica Diaz http://artpetty.com/2009/09/20/leadership-caffeine-the-times-choose-the-leaders-is-it-your-time/#comment-10685 Monica Diaz Mon, 21 Sep 2009 01:07:56 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=2491#comment-10685 This is right on, Art! And at the same time, the things that made the leaders of the past great can still hold true. Today I blogged about a great man on the 36th anniversary of his passing and if we look at his guiding principles of course they express the times he lived in, but they are also in many ways timeless. The art of the leader is what to learn from the past and how to use it in the current context. I always leave your posts feeling the caffeine in my veins and energized to think the subject over. Thank you, Art! This is right on, Art! And at the same time, the things that made the leaders of the past great can still hold true. Today I blogged about a great man on the 36th anniversary of his passing and if we look at his guiding principles of course they express the times he lived in, but they are also in many ways timeless. The art of the leader is what to learn from the past and how to use it in the current context. I always leave your posts feeling the caffeine in my veins and energized to think the subject over. Thank you, Art!

]]> By: Alicia-Ann Caesar http://artpetty.com/2009/09/20/leadership-caffeine-the-times-choose-the-leaders-is-it-your-time/#comment-10672 Alicia-Ann Caesar Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:15:16 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=2491#comment-10672 Thank you Art for this blog, as a young leader I find myself faced everyday with the fear that I don't measure up to the leader before me, that I don't have what it takes to lead... I got three points from your blog that really struck me and knocked some sense into me- jump starts to my day and hopefully to being productve and productive: 1. Stop looking for someone to blame- look for resolution, be proactive, be creative. There are no monsters under my bed holding me back. 2. TRY! How in the heck will I know if I can do something or succeed at an idea unless I try. That is what truly made the leaders you mentioned. men that had the strength to try, where others turn and ran or gave up. 3. Remember your inner strength! Instead of focusing on my weaknesses, I need to focus on the inner leadership strengths that got in my position in the first place. Thank you for a great jump start to my week- a week where I am going to have to defend my ability to lead during these times- and for myself I need to reconnect with what makes me the person to lead, because if I don't know, how can I show it to others. Thank you Art for this blog, as a young leader I find myself faced everyday with the fear that I don’t measure up to the leader before me, that I don’t have what it takes to lead…

I got three points from your blog that really struck me and knocked some sense into me- jump starts to my day and hopefully to being productve and productive:

1. Stop looking for someone to blame- look for resolution, be proactive, be creative. There are no monsters under my bed holding me back.

2. TRY! How in the heck will I know if I can do something or succeed at an idea unless I try. That is what truly made the leaders you mentioned. men that had the strength to try, where others turn and ran or gave up.

3. Remember your inner strength! Instead of focusing on my weaknesses, I need to focus on the inner leadership strengths that got in my position in the first place.

Thank you for a great jump start to my week- a week where I am going to have to defend my ability to lead during these times- and for myself I need to reconnect with what makes me the person to lead, because if I don’t know, how can I show it to others.

]]> By: Art Petty http://artpetty.com/2009/09/20/leadership-caffeine-the-times-choose-the-leaders-is-it-your-time/#comment-10664 Art Petty Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:39:18 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=2491#comment-10664 Wally, you have a wonderful skill for extracting key points much more eloquently and concisely than I am able to make them in the first place! You are right...the lens of history masks the reality that the great leaders dealt with the same complexities and the same level of ambiguity, and yet they found a way through the darkness. Wonderful adds with the quotes!! Thanks as always for sharing your wisdom. -Art Wally, you have a wonderful skill for extracting key points much more eloquently and concisely than I am able to make them in the first place!

You are right…the lens of history masks the reality that the great leaders dealt with the same complexities and the same level of ambiguity, and yet they found a way through the darkness.

Wonderful adds with the quotes!!

Thanks as always for sharing your wisdom. -Art

]]> By: Wally Bock http://artpetty.com/2009/09/20/leadership-caffeine-the-times-choose-the-leaders-is-it-your-time/#comment-10663 Wally Bock Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:29:59 +0000 http://artpetty.com/?p=2491#comment-10663 There's a great point in here, Art. When we look back at the heroes of history or the history of business, things look nice and neat. We have a tendency to believe that, somehow, their time wasn't as messy or uncertain as our own or that they had powers of prediction far more potent than ours. Reality is different. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he didn't know how things would turn out. That's why the line that's attributed to him then is significant, "Let the dice fly high." It's a gamble, my friends. Let's hope fortune is kind. The best you can do is the best you can do. To quote Damon Runyon, "The race may not be to the swift, nor victory to the strong, but that's the way you bet." There’s a great point in here, Art. When we look back at the heroes of history or the history of business, things look nice and neat. We have a tendency to believe that, somehow, their time wasn’t as messy or uncertain as our own or that they had powers of prediction far more potent than ours. Reality is different.

When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon, he didn’t know how things would turn out. That’s why the line that’s attributed to him then is significant, “Let the dice fly high.” It’s a gamble, my friends. Let’s hope fortune is kind.

The best you can do is the best you can do. To quote Damon Runyon, “The race may not be to the swift, nor victory to the strong, but that’s the way you bet.”

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