by Art Petty | Apr 10, 2020 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation
Note from Art—this is part of an ongoing series focused on helping you rethink and reinvent your management practices for a changing world. In talking with top executives, it’s no surprise that one of the biggest challenges they are facing is transferring their...
by Art Petty | Nov 27, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Strategy
Until you’ve led a team or firm through a crisis, it’s difficult to know what to do much less how to do it. If you’re an employee of a firm facing a crisis, chances are you feel like a helpless occupant of a car watching from the backseat as it careens out of control....
by Art Petty | Jul 27, 2015 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The Leadership Caffeine™ series is intended to make you think and act. — In difficult situations, reality tinged with optimism and backed by encouragement serves as a more effective motivator than a saccharine-sweet message of false praise and manufactured...
by Art Petty | Nov 10, 2010 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Project Management
Note from Art: this intrepid reporter has spared no effort to observe at least three or four news reports on this topic. And note to executives and managers everywhere: get your act together on assessing, planning for and responding to customer catastrophes! By now,...