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 | Jun 30, 2014 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Project Management
The Art of Managing series is dedicated to exploring the critical issues we face in guiding our firms and teams to success in today’s volatile world. — Many firms incorporate something in their values statements that encourages experimentation and...
by Art Petty | Mar 17, 2010 | Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation
Dan Ariely offers an interesting piece in the April, 2010 Harvard Business Review on “Why Businesses Don’t Experiment.” In this brief essay (only available for a fee as of this writing), he offers two main reasons for the lack of experimentation: “…experiments require...
