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	<itunes:summary>Host Art Petty interviews leaders, leadership authors, management thinkers and other professionals about creating high performance teams and organizations and developing effective leaders at all levels, during this weekly program. The goal is to share practical, powerful ideas to help listeners improve their performance and the performance of their teams and organizations.</itunes:summary>
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	<itunes:author>Art Petty</itunes:author>
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		<title>Strategy-Towards Hypotheses, Experiments, Involvement &amp; Learning</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2012/01/25/strategy-towards-hypotheses-experiments-involvement-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:22:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Few would argue that a nimble, quick-to-learn and quick-to-adapt organization is a bad thing. Given the rate of change in our world, those characteristics are increasingly table-stakes for survival and success. Why then has the approach to strategy and the notion of “strategic planning” in so many organizations remained mired in a 1960’s kind of static, top-down event-focused model? Here are six ideas to transform your organization's approach to and effectiveness with strategy.  <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2012/01/25/strategy-towards-hypotheses-experiments-involvement-learning/' addthis:title='Strategy-Towards Hypotheses, Experiments, Involvement &#38; Learning ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Art&#8217;s Weekly Leadership Message: Get Engaged to Help Your Project Teams Succeed</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2011/11/27/arts-weekly-leadership-message-get-engaged-to-help-your-project-teams-succeed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 15:54:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hear from hundreds of professionals every year in workshops, via coaching assignments or in classrooms, about the challenges they have working in and on project teams. From almost every student’s worst nightmare, the classroom group project, to major strategic initiatives with high-level sponsorship, the complaints are consistent: we as leaders don’t do enough to support team development and performance.  

While the list of things that can go horribly wrong on project teams is long, these 5 consistently rise to the top of the lament list.

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		<title>Leadership Caffeine: Speed Kills-10 Situations to Call a Timeout</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2011/10/17/leadership-caffeine-speed-kills-10-situations-to-call-a-timeout/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere on the way to this world we now live and work in, “speed” became a proxy for success.  Speed is undoubtedly important, but beware relying on it as the sole indicator of effectiveness.  It’s a cruel tyrant, demanding fealty from followers, while discouraging critical and deep thinking and focusing solely on time-to-response as a metric of success. Here are at least 10 situations where you should resist the need for speed and call a timeout:<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2011/10/17/leadership-caffeine-speed-kills-10-situations-to-call-a-timeout/' addthis:title='Leadership Caffeine: Speed Kills-10 Situations to Call a Timeout ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Next! Call for Interviews: Product &amp; Project Managers &amp; Organizational Integrators</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2011/08/24/next-call-for-interviews-product-project-managers-organizational-integrators/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 13:39:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When chatting with leadership author and expert, John Baldoni, on the Leadership Caffeine Podcast (published on itunes last week), I asked him which of his books was his favorite. I loved his response…"The one I’m working on now.”

I’m just a few weeks away from the publication of book #2 for me, a collection of essays organized into helpful…self-help sections for professionals striving to survive and succeed (Leadership Caffeine-Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development), and try as I might to resist the urge to do this again (right away), I have to have a book in process in my life. Next!  Bring on the Organizational Integrators and Informal Leaders!<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2011/08/24/next-call-for-interviews-product-project-managers-organizational-integrators/' addthis:title='Next! Call for Interviews: Product &#38; Project Managers &#38; Organizational Integrators ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Management Excellence Toolkit: Better Design for Workplace Discussions</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2011/05/23/management-excellence-tookit-better-design-for-workplace-discussions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 14:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decision-Making]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Getting to a good decision on big issues is challenging.  Navigating the discussions leading up to a decision however, often resembles something on the difficulty of slogging through the Amazonian jungles in search of a mythical lost city made of gold. If you survive the process, you are bound to come out a very different person. It doesn’t have to be so hard.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2011/05/23/management-excellence-tookit-better-design-for-workplace-discussions/' addthis:title='Management Excellence Toolkit: Better Design for Workplace Discussions ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Time to Start Teaching Your Teams to Succeed</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2011/05/18/its-time-to-start-teaching-your-teams-to-succeed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 14:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve ever been part of a truly effective team…a high performance team, you know the experience is memorable. For those who’ve lived and thrived on a high-performance team, the memory of what it was like to work with a motivated, caring, challenging (but respectful), accomplishment-focused group of individuals provides sustenance for the lonely, near-death experiences that characterize so many other team and project experiences in the workplace.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2011/05/18/its-time-to-start-teaching-your-teams-to-succeed/' addthis:title='It&#8217;s Time to Start Teaching Your Teams to Succeed ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Millennial View: Fixing Our Shortcomings</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2011/05/13/the-millennial-view-fixing-our-shortcomings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 12:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Rodriguez</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Eric Rodriguez is the voice of The Millennial View here at Management Excellence. His periodic posts offer insights from early career professionals seeking to navigate their way through this challenging world. Today's post encourages all of us, regardless of generation, to renew our commitment to overcoming the weaknesses that keep us from reaching our personal and professional goals. <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2011/05/13/the-millennial-view-fixing-our-shortcomings/' addthis:title='The Millennial View: Fixing Our Shortcomings ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine: Coping with Workplace Critics</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2011/04/04/leadership-caffeine-coping-with-workplace-critics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 13:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve yet to accomplish anything worth a damn when I didn’t have a fair number of critics lined up and all too happy to tell me why I was out of my mind. It’s a fair bet you’ve seen this before as well.  In my experience, the more audacious and creative the idea, program or strategy, the more vocal the critics become.  Here are five ideas to help you cope with the worst of your workplace critics.  <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2011/04/04/leadership-caffeine-coping-with-workplace-critics/' addthis:title='Leadership Caffeine: Coping with Workplace Critics ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine: Supporting the Rise of the Informal Leader</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2011/03/28/leadership-caffeine-supporting-the-rise-of-the-informal-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to know where to find your best and brightest emerging leaders? Here’s a hint, you’ll have to use your peripheral vision to see them, because they are moving sideways at a high rate of speed.  Here are 7 ideas for cultivating Informal Leaders in your organization.   
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		<title>Art&#8217;s Latest Workshops and A Peek at a New Book and 2 Upcoming Programs</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2011/03/27/arts-latest-workshops-and-a-peek-at-a-new-book-and-2-upcoming-programs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2011 17:37:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note: this post is an update on new offerings from Art Petty. It’s been a busy time for new program development, with more to come this spring.  Here’s a snapshot of the latest workshops (decision-making, feedback mastery) and a quick peek at some early summer offerings, including a new book, and new on-line course content and coaching offerings:
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		<title>Management Excellence Toolkit-Part 4: Improve Your Estimating and Forecasting Effectiveness</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2011/03/16/management-excellence-toolkit-part-4-improve-your-estimating-and-forecasting-effectiveness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 14:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your decisions define you as a leader and a manager, yet we spend very little time in our busy lives finding ways to improve our abilities in this area. This Management Excellence Toolkit Series will help you recognize the challenges and pitfalls of individual and group decision-making and offer ideas on improving performance for you and your co-workers. In this segment, I focus on the issues surrounding forecasting and estimating errors, and I offer a number of ideas to improve performance for these important activities. <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2011/03/16/management-excellence-toolkit-part-4-improve-your-estimating-and-forecasting-effectiveness/' addthis:title='Management Excellence Toolkit-Part 4: Improve Your Estimating and Forecasting Effectiveness ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Key Professional Capabilities Required By Our Times</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2011/01/19/nine-key-professional-capabilities-required-by-our-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s no doubt we live in interesting times…a true Dickensian Best of Times, Worst of Times environment, filled with remarkable opportunities and equally remarkable personal, competitive, societal and global challenges.  Over the past few years and few thousand contacts with professionals on the topic(s) of developing as a professional and developing as a leader, a number of key “capabilities needed for success in these times” have emerged as recurring themes in discussions and group settings. Importantly, these themes or as I describe them, Capabilities, Attributes &#038; Behaviors (CABs) are essential for success at both the individual and organizational levels.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2011/01/19/nine-key-professional-capabilities-required-by-our-times/' addthis:title='Nine Key Professional Capabilities Required By Our Times ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Art Guest Posts at Lead Change, My Next Book &amp; Other Updates</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/12/16/art-guest-posts-at-lead-change-my-next-book-other-updates/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:12:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I confess to focusing a great deal recently on the future of leadership. This was evident in my guest post, "The Great and Perilous Leadership Journey Ahead,"at Tanveer Naseer’s site, and in today’s essay, "Leadership Guidance for Our Children." at the Lead Change site.  And while you're visiting Lead Change, be certain to check out the many great blog posts from some truly outstanding leadership writers and thinkers. <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/12/16/art-guest-posts-at-lead-change-my-next-book-other-updates/' addthis:title='Art Guest Posts at Lead Change, My Next Book &#38; Other Updates ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Art Guest Posts on Leadership at Tanveer Naseer&#8217;s Blog</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/11/30/art-guest-posts-on-leadership-at-tanveer-naseers-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My guest post at Tanveer Naseer's blog, The Great and Perilous Leadership Journey Ahead, reflects my perspective on the rapidly and radically changing nature of leadership in our emerging environment. Perhaps my subhead says it best: "Welcome to the Leadership Blender." <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/11/30/art-guest-posts-on-leadership-at-tanveer-naseers-blog/' addthis:title='Art Guest Posts on Leadership at Tanveer Naseer&#8217;s Blog ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Hey, What if One of Our Ships Gets Stranded?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/11/10/hey-what-if-one-of-our-ships-gets-stranded/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, most of us have seen or heard news footage of the Carnival Splendor stranded at sea after suffering an engine room fire and a subsequent loss of core systems including most power and importantly, the plumbing. Thankfully, no one was reported injured, but that’s about as good as the news gets in this situation. The fact that something went wrong at sea on one of those floating Mall of Americas is not surprising to me. What is surprising and disconcerting about the situation, is the apparent complete and utter lack of a risk response plan.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/11/10/hey-what-if-one-of-our-ships-gets-stranded/' addthis:title='&#8220;Hey, What if One of Our Ships Gets Stranded?&#8221; ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Never Rake Leaves Uphill and Other Management Lessons Learned in the Northwoods</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/11/04/never-rake-leaves-uphill-and-other-management-lessons-learned-in-the-northwoods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:51:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Spend enough time writing, speaking and thinking about management and performance, and you’re likely to find yourself looking for lessons in all of your dealings. This certainly held true for me this past weekend, as I engaged in the annual fall ritual of cleaning up the leaves at the northwoods home. While the management guidance here might not make the next issue of HBR, if you ever face several hilly acres of ankle deep leaves, this might just save your back from breaking and your relationships from crumbling!<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/11/04/never-rake-leaves-uphill-and-other-management-lessons-learned-in-the-northwoods/' addthis:title='Never Rake Leaves Uphill and Other Management Lessons Learned in the Northwoods ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Feedback on Feedback</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/09/21/the-feedback-on-feedback/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past several years beginning with the work for Practical Lessons in Leadership with my co-author, Rich Petro, I’ve made a professional hobby out of exploring the fascinating and very real fear that so many people have for delivering constructive feedback. One of my favorite interviews for the book was with a retired CEO who when I posed the question on whether he had any regrets, without hesitating, responded: “I really regret that I never learned how to have the tough discussions with the people that worked for me.”  He quickly added, “To this day, I wonder how much money that I cost my companies.”

This most difficult of human interactions in the workplace is also one of the most important.  The fear, much like the fear of public speaking is mostly in our minds, and with some deliberate practice, all of us are capable of improving our skills, and as a result, improving our performance, the performance of our teams and of our organizations.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/09/21/the-feedback-on-feedback/' addthis:title='The Feedback on Feedback ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Strategy Fueled Leadership</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/09/09/the-importance-of-strategy-fueled-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 17:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve written on the topic of Strategy Fueled Leadership  several times, and fresh off of a great podcast interview with Gary Harpst, author of Six Disciplines Execution Revolution (stay tuned for my posting) and my recent interview with Jocelyn Davis for Strategic Speed, I am on my soapbox again.  It is critical to link leadership with strategy and vice-versa and the failure to do this is one of the root causes of strategy and execution failure in organizations.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/09/09/the-importance-of-strategy-fueled-leadership/' addthis:title='The Importance of Strategy Fueled Leadership ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine: The Noble Pursuit of Power and Influence</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/08/30/leadership-caffeine-the-noble-pursuit-of-power-and-influence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:47:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power and influence are not dirty words. Both are components of every organization’s environment and both must be carefully cultivated to succeed as a formal or informal leader. Power and influence provide the motive power behind organizations and initiatives and the lubrication that keeps the parts and people from binding and grinding and self-destructing. Here are 6 key reasons why cultivating power and influence is good for your career.  <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/08/30/leadership-caffeine-the-noble-pursuit-of-power-and-influence/' addthis:title='Leadership Caffeine: The Noble Pursuit of Power and Influence ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Team Conflict? As Long as It’s Not Personal, Run With It</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/07/21/team-conflict-as-long-as-it%e2%80%99s-not-personal-run-with-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m leery of happy teams.  Don’t get me wrong.  I like positive experiences and working with happy people, however, in my experience, the happy teams are the ones that produce mediocre results or, they don’t produce at all. Give me a group of people that show up to do battle on the issues versus the team that strives for peace and harmony, any day.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/07/21/team-conflict-as-long-as-it%e2%80%99s-not-personal-run-with-it/' addthis:title='Team Conflict? As Long as It’s Not Personal, Run With It ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>6 Steps for Avoiding Groupthink on Your Team</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/07/08/6-steps-for-avoiding-groupthink-on-your-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:20:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Groupthink is one of the nefarious decision-making missteps of teams, and a trap that many smart people and groups have fallen victim to throughout history. From the classic example cited in nearly every discussion on decision-making, the Kennedy administration’s Bay of Pigs fiasco, to Ford’s launch of the Edsel, to Neviille Chamberlin’s inner circle that believed peace with Hitler was at hand, Groupthink has earned a prominent place in our culture. And while you might not be planning an invasion or negotiation with evil dictators or planning on launching an ugly automobile, chances are that Groupthink has show up from time to time in your professional world.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/07/08/6-steps-for-avoiding-groupthink-on-your-team/' addthis:title='6 Steps for Avoiding Groupthink on Your Team ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>The Problem(s) with Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 13:55:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s increasingly likely that you will spend a good deal of your professional time working on temporary teams.  It’s also likely that you will experience a fair amount of frustration and even team failure along the way.  Most organizations have yet to meet a problem (or opportunity) that they won’t throw a team at to solve. Let’s face it, it’s tempting to assume that a group of motivated, diverse individuals will trump the lone soldier when it comes to creativity, problem-solving and planning.

Or, at least it’s comfortable to think so.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/05/28/the-problems-with-teams/' addthis:title='The Problem(s) with Teams ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine-5 Ideas for Improving Your Ability to Engage as a Leader</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/05/24/leadership-caffeine-5-ideas-for-improving-your-ability-to-engage-as-a-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 13:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some leaders move through their days like a flat rock skipping over the surface of a pond. They are focused on personal efficiency and speed, and the faster they move and the more decisions that they make, the better they believe they are doing as leaders.  They are transactional leaders. Their days are blurs of decisions, quick meetings, hurried hallway exchanges and even more hurried text and e-mail messages, often created while they are present but not engaged in the event or conversation of the moment.  If improving performance, fostering a culture of learning and innovation and developing the confidence to tackle the tough topics are all important for your firm, it’s time to engage more and transact less.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/05/24/leadership-caffeine-5-ideas-for-improving-your-ability-to-engage-as-a-leader/' addthis:title='Leadership Caffeine-5 Ideas for Improving Your Ability to Engage as a Leader ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Art to Help Kick-Off Project Leadership Forum at Harrisburg University</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/05/11/art-to-help-kick-off-project-leadership-forum-at-harrisburg-university/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 16:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a long-time, self-described zealot for the importance of project managers developing as leaders, imagine how excited I was to learn about a conference devoted to just this topic! I’ve written at length in this blog (Learning to Lead in the Project Focused World and others) and even offered up my e-book, Leadership and the Project Manager, in support of this concept.  I’m even more excited to be a part of the conference as a guest keynote as Project Leadership Forum kicks-off on Thursday in Harrisburg, PA.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/05/11/art-to-help-kick-off-project-leadership-forum-at-harrisburg-university/' addthis:title='Art to Help Kick-Off Project Leadership Forum at Harrisburg University ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Want Growth? You Might Try Slowing Down to Speed Up</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2010/05/05/want-growth-you-might-try-slowing-down-to-speed-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 13:04:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jocelyn R. Davis and Tom Atkinson offer some compelling thoughts on strategy in their article, "Need Speed?  Slow Down," in the May, 2010 Harvard Business Review.  They describe the concept of strategic speed as one of reducing the time it takes to create value. While “reducing time” might sound like speeding up, their research results suggest the opposite.<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2010/05/05/want-growth-you-might-try-slowing-down-to-speed-up/' addthis:title='Want Growth? You Might Try Slowing Down to Speed Up ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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