by Art Petty | May 12, 2020 | Career, Emerging Leaders, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Self-Development, Think Differently
OK, It’s About Critical Thinking, But Hopefully, You Get the Point While you might be correct in assuming I’ve read too much science fiction and fantasy, it turns out two skills they don’t teach you in most professional development programs are...
by Art Petty | Feb 23, 2020 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, The Leadership Opportunity
Here’s a little secret. When I use the phrase “emerging leader,” I’m talking about all of us. You’re never done learning to lead. Some of us are a bit more experienced, and others are more effective than others, yet even at retirement, the job of learning to lead is...
by Art Petty | Feb 21, 2017 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Strategy
In Matthew May’s excellent, thought-provoking and helpful read, “Winning the Brain Game,” he describes seven flaws in our thinking processes that impede our success at innovating and solving problems in creative ways. One of those flaws, “Leaping,” is something I...
by Art Petty | Oct 19, 2016 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, Leadership
Whether we are describing the workplace or the classroom setting, too often, our management approaches stifle independent thinking. We create measures and scorecards and performance evaluations that promote a narrow set of behaviors. What gets measured gets...
by Art Petty | Apr 23, 2010 | Career, Leadership
A few weeks ago, I published a post on “Jumpstart Your Marketing Reading to Restart Your Brain.” The post was ostensibly in response to my frustration over what I view as out-of-of-tune and out-of-touch textbooks that are used in college marketing courses. Ditto on...
