by Art Petty | Mar 22, 2009 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
This week’s focus is on innovation. It’s time to head back to work and jump-start your innovation-machine. While we all pursue creativity in different ways, mine always starts with a great cup of coffee. Speaking of innovation, some of my best pots of coffee come from...
by Art Petty | Mar 10, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Strategy
There’s enough negative going around. Here’s a few worth reading that will leave you thinking and maybe even feeling a bit more upbeat. I’ll Have Fries with that Strategy and Please Pass the Data Students of strategy and performance excellence might want to take a...
by Art Petty | Mar 8, 2009 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Welcome back for this week’s double-shot of leadership motivation. The gray and wet Midwestern weekend is giving way to a promising new week and it’s time to get going. I’m brewing a pot of New Mexico’s award winning Pinon Coffee, courtesy of my sister-in law as...
by Art Petty | Feb 20, 2009 | Leadership, Leading Change
It’s easy to focus on the bad news. Everyone’s talking about it. We’re bombarded with news flashes and human disaster stories as the layoffs mount and the foreclosures climb. And make no doubt about it, these are tough times, but let’s start giving some coverage to...
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...