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Leadership Caffeine™-It’s Time to Get Serious About Learning from Your Twenty-Somethings

One of the recurring themes in my writing and teaching activities is the importance of blending the generations in the workplace. I’ve been a cheerleader for this cause for the past few years and I truly believe that good managers everywhere must find opportunities to leverage the unique perspectives of experience, pragmatism and idealism available from this fascinating mix of time travelers. I’ve now moved beyond my polite encouragement for managers to find ways to adapt and cope with what seem to be the foreign habits and foreign viewpoints emanating from the more youthful in the workforce. It's time to get serious about learning and benefitting from this younger generation.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:56-05:00January 31st, 2010|Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation|13 Comments

Leadership and the Young Professional

very academic quarter for the past few years, a good colleague has invited me to be a guest speaker in her senior-level college management class and talk about leadership. I'm on the schedule tonight and I love this experience. It’s great to have to stand in front of a group of early-career professionals and go through the humbling experience of recognizing that you are talking based on the road traveled and their view is on the unchartered horizons in front of them.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:16-05:00January 12th, 2009|Career, Leadership|2 Comments

Living, Learning and Leading in an Increasingly Virtual World

Somewhere between the world I grew up in and the world that we are living in today, everything about working, leading and learning began to change. It’s increasingly a virtual world, and everything about communicating, interacting and developing relationships feels a bit different than it used to. While many/most of us are compliant with the changes in communications (telex to fax to e-mail to IM, web conferencing etc.), I wonder how many of us are truly working to become competent at living and working in this world.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:21-05:00July 25th, 2008|Uncategorized|3 Comments

The Emerging and Strange Alliance Between Boomers and Millennials

If you are leading a team today, chances are you are dealing with one of the fascinating experiences of our time: how to manage teams increasingly comprised of aging Boomers and newly graduated Millennials. Your first thought might be that you couldn't find two groups farther apart in terms of values, priorities, interests and capabilities. Well, your first thought is wrong.

By Art Petty|2008-11-09T14:11:09-06:00June 24th, 2008|Uncategorized|3 Comments

Improve Managerial Effectiveness by Broadening Span of Control?

Tomorrow's effective leaders are better served focusing on bringing the right resources to bear at a point in time than they are being constrained by a consultant derived goal to reduce managers and costs by increasing span of control. It's time to reengineer the old school thinking that leads to dangerous advice about leadership.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:27-05:00March 24th, 2008|Leadership|0 Comments

Technical Leaders: It’s Time to Throw Out the Single-Track System for Developing Talent

One of the many priceless discussion threads during the interview, focused on the challenges of developing leadership and individual contributor talent in technical organizations. Specifically, he railed at the "single career-track" approach that in his opinion results in many otherwise great individual contributors pursuing leadership roles for the wrong reasons regardless of their interest or capabilities for leading. There is wisdom in his perspective.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:28-05:00February 27th, 2008|Leadership|2 Comments