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Want to have an outsized impact? Strengthen your Core Four Accelerators

Want to have an outsized impact? Strengthen your Core Four Accelerators

by Art Petty | Apr 9, 2026 | Career, Communicate, Influence, Lead, Thrive

The Core Four Growth Accelerators Some skills are more equal than others in large organizations when it comes to your career growth and success. Whether you define ‘growth’ as increasing responsibility for people, a function, and budget, or having an...
The Great Capitulation: Here’s Why You’re Losing Too Many Good People

The Great Capitulation: Here’s Why You’re Losing Too Many Good People

by Art Petty | Oct 18, 2021 | Art of Managing, Career, Career Re-mix, Leadership, Management Innovation, The Leadership Opportunity, Think Differently

  Stupefaction: that feeling of distress you have when you realize you’re responsible for good people leaving your firm. — Here’s a Fun-Fact from my Career Reinvent Boot Camp programs: 50% of participants would prefer to reinvent their careers (change...
Are You Investing in a Growth Experience or Entertainment for Your Team Members?

Are You Investing in a Growth Experience or Entertainment for Your Team Members?

by Art Petty | Sep 24, 2021 | Art of Managing, Career, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Management Innovation, Self-Development, Think Differently

In Search of Professional Development Programs with Impact Long before I ever considered creating and delivering professional development experiences, I was an avid consumer of training for my teams and myself. I regularly exceeded my budgets for training, and...
Leadership Caffeine™—Beware Creating Toxic, Under-Performing Cultures of Niceness

Leadership Caffeine™—Beware Creating Toxic, Under-Performing Cultures of Niceness

by Art Petty | Aug 27, 2017 | Art of Managing, Leadership

Give me a choice between working for a hard-driving, perfection demanding so-and-so and someone who is inordinately preoccupied with my feelings; I will take the former every time. It will be stressful, occasionally unpleasant, and the unyielding expectation of high...
Leadership Caffeine™—Awkward Moments

Leadership Caffeine™—Awkward Moments

by Art Petty | Feb 12, 2017 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine

Our work lives are punctuated by awkward moments thrust upon us at various points in time. Any first day at a new job. Every last day at an old job. The day you learn your boss was fired. You liked this boss. Meeting your new boss at the firm buying your company. The...
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