by Art Petty | Jul 17, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
Note from Art: this post was prompted based on my general rankling at the annual migration of corporate teams to strategy offsites. There are more effective ways to get organizations focused and moving than this traditionally dysfunctional, low-outcome event, and the...
by Art Petty | Apr 16, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Strategy
The McKinsey Quarterly (subscription required) just released the results of its latest survey on corporate strategic planning activities in an article entitled: Strategic Planning: Three tips for 2009. Key results include: 47% of executives surveyed indicated that...
by Art Petty | Mar 3, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
One of the themes that I hear consistently in workshops and in discussions with the professionals in my MBA classes is frustration over the propensity of a firm’s leaders to never say “No” to a project. Lacking a viable mechanism to compare, evaluate and select and...
by Art Petty | Dec 16, 2008 | Strategy
The good professionals at Booz&Co (publishers of Strategy+Business) joined the long list of organizations offering guidance on how to cope with the current economic uncertainties, in: Rethink Your Strategy: An Urgent Memo to the CEO. A number of the recent...
