July Issue of the Management Excellence e-Newsletter: Subscriber Only Content

July 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Fresh ideasToday’s “Leadership Tip of the Day” is for e-newsletter subscribers only.  Of course, I would love to have you as a subscriber!

See the note below that I carried on my Management Excellence site.  Also, you are more than welcome to subscribe via the Building Better Leaders site and the offer for copies of Practical Lessons in Leadership below stands for all subscribers, subject to the noted limits.

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The July issue of The Management Excellence e-Newsletter is out, with subscriber-only content.

The current issue includes content on:

  • Improving Ideation & Creativity with Your Team
  • Surviving and Thriving at the Dreaded Annual Strategy Off-Site
  • Ideas for Jump-Starting Your Personal/Professional Development Program
  • New Suggestions for the Management Excellence Reading List
  • A tasteful promotion at the bottom of the newsletter outlining new beta test opportunities for upcoming Building Better Leaders programs and other services.  (Hey, I am in business here!)

If you’re not a subscriber, please consider signing on and gaining access to content and opportunities not covered on my blogs. As always, I will guard your e-mail information with amazing ferocity!

As an incentive, I will send a free, signed copy of Practical Lessons in Leadership to the 1st, 10th and 25th new subscribers (and every 25th after that, until 500) after this post publishes today.  This offer is good for 24 hours…and you must have a U.S. mailing address to participate.

You can subscribe at Management Excellence (http://artpetty.com) or Building Better Leaders (http://buildingbetterleaders.com) on the far right column under E-Newsletter Mailing List.  And of course, new subscribers will receive a copy of the newsletter and very soon, access to all newsletter archives as well!

I look forward to sharing ideas for development and performance with you in our e-newsletter format!

Happy Reading!

-Art

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Fear, Self Confidence, Development, Renewal and Branding: Content from Art in Other Publications

January 7, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Reading Material to Stimulate IdeasAs I continue expanding my writing and publishing activities in my growing multi-media and multi-medium world with multiple blogs and an e-newsletter as well as frequent writing for other publications, I feel duty bound to highlight some of the content that you won’t catch in this blog alone.

In the next few weeks, I will work with my good friends and web developers at DigiSage to eliminate the need to send out separate posts  on what else I’m covering in different arenas by creating a sidebar where you can scan and click as you so desire.  For the moment however, here’s the update.

In Cased You Missed These At My Building Better Leaders Blog:

-The Leader’s Daily Reminder List offers nine suggestions for improving your blocking and tackling as a leader every day.  Great leaders don’t make New Year’s resolutions, they resolve to improve every single day!

-Develop the Courage to Lead by Pushing Out of Your Silo offers ideas on enhancing your career and improving your effectiveness by building bridges with other groups and professionals across the organization.  Contrary to the popular myths, the people in other departments are generally neither idiots or out to get you!

-The Leader’s Journey from Fear to Self-Confidence tackles a critical topic that almost no one talks about. Great leaders work hard on overcoming their fears.  And yes, we all have them.

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The First Edition of the Management Excellence Newsletter Published on January 6 with All New Content For:

-Ideas for Turbocharging Talent Development on a Lean Budget

-Get Started Suggestions for Growing Your Professional Brand This Year

-Must Read Resources-A Book and Blog Review.

If you are not on the Management Excellence Newsletter list and would like to make sure you don’t miss out on the current and future issues, you’ll find the sign-up in the far right column here at Management Excellence.  I’ll send out a copy of the current issue to anyone who signs up this week.  And of course, your e-mail information will never be used for any purpose other than distributing the newsletter!

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I was thrilled to be asked to write the cover story for a quarterly business publication distributed to all businesses in my county here in Illinois.  The story, “Rethink, Renew and Recover”offers my take on tackling the tough tasks in front of us and how to succeed and prosper now!  You can read the article by downloading the pdf file of The Catalyst magazine on this linked webpage.

Oh, and shameless plug…notice the Strategy and Execution program highlighted on the cover as well.  That would be me on the docket to conduct one of my favorite and most invigorating programs on how to create value through a dynamic strategy and execution process.  I would love to run this program for your firm.

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Happy Reading!

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An Irreverent but Pointed Look at Feedback & An Update on the Newsletter Promotion

December 17, 2009 By Leave a Comment

smileyfaceThanks to everyone that joined the Management Excellence Newsletter list during the past view days!

We succeeded in growing the already substantial list by a whopping 25% and I’m honored that so many of you joined.  Now of course the burden is on me to live up to my commitment of fresh, compelling and useful content in the spirit of the blog.  I welcome the opportunity and challenge!

I will be recruiting one of my sons to help me with the name drawing for the free books (Practical Lessons in Leadership) and will reach out to the winners via e-mail over the next day or so for shipping information.

Thanks again for your enthusiastic response!  For those that missed joining, but don’t want to miss out, the sign up is found in the right column on both the Management Excellence and Building Better Leaders sites.

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Today’s post is at my Building Better Leaders site/blog and features a slightly irreverent look at the value and need for feedback. It is entirely possible that in the course of making a point on why feedback is such a critical skill to master, I compared it to Viagra, dissed the Chicago Bears QB Jay Cutler and encouraged incompetent leaders to volunteer to stand next to a wall with a blindfold on and smoke a cigarette.  And yes, there is a message and at least a few ideas for you once you get beyond my slightly off-center suggestions.  Since the post is R-rated, if you are easily upset by references to performance enhancement and firing squads, you may want to skip the post.

If you are courageous, here’s the link to:“Feedback-Performance Enhancement for Leaders Without the Pill”

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