by Art Petty | Aug 20, 2023 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Strategy
Strategy Process Dysfunction and Malfunction—Take Heed I’ve been exposed to strategy from my first days in product management to my work as a senior executive and now as a strategy advisor/facilitator. I’ve worked with every framework, most major (and quite a few...
by Art Petty | Sep 17, 2015 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Strategy
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. — Strategy processes mostly disappoint. That’s too bad, because there are few activities more essential to...
by Art Petty | Jun 8, 2011 | Leadership, Strategy
OK, truth-in-advertising time. The meeting isn’t the problem. It’s typically the thinking behind the meeting that is often horribly wrong. From the symbolism of the event to the cost to the fact that strategic thinking time is reduced to a once or twice a year event,...
by Art Petty | Jul 17, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
Note from Art: this post was prompted based on my general rankling at the annual migration of corporate teams to strategy offsites. There are more effective ways to get organizations focused and moving than this traditionally dysfunctional, low-outcome event, and the...
