by Art Petty | Jun 28, 2021 | Art of Managing, Career, Career Reinvention, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Influence, Leadership, Self-Development
Fresh off of leading three outstanding cohorts through a live-online version of my Manager Development Program for New(er) Managers, we are setting up several new mid and late summer opportunities. We would love to help you or your team members level up their skills. ...
by Art Petty | Sep 19, 2017 | First Time Manager Series, Leadership
One of the common reactions to the content I present in my online workshops “Succeeding as a First-Time Manager,” is, “This is hard work.” I agree. Kind of. In a recent article, “Leadership is Common Sense in Action,” I make the case that we over complicate it a great...
by Art Petty | Sep 11, 2017 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
The rude awakening for many first-time managers is the reality that they are now actually responsible for the outcomes of others. It’s a far cry from the life of an individual contributor when the only difficult person you had to deal with was staring back at you in...
by Art Petty | Aug 28, 2017 | First Time Manager Series, Leadership
My own challenging first-time management experience aside, I’ve worked with hundreds of first-time managers in a variety of programs, and there’s just no way to sugarcoat reality for this job. Surviving the early phase is a bit like what it must feel like to scale...
by Art Petty | Feb 7, 2015 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Management Innovation, Marketing, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
A note from Art: I’ve long believed serials are great ways to share stories. Dickens published many of his works in serial format and the dockworkers were reputed to shout from the shore as ships arrived with the latest installment of The Old Curiosity Shop,...
