by Art Petty | May 9, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Every person who has spent any significant amount of time in a management role has encountered at least one employee from that warm place, and I am not talking about Phoenix. The best of the worst are master manipulators who work within the system confounding attempts...
by Art Petty | Nov 21, 2013 | Just One Thing, Leadership
As managers, we tend to tolerate certain employees who straddle that toxic boundary, in large part, because we can rationalize their aberrant behaviors in the context of what they do well. We write off destructive behaviors that live at the bleeding edge of the values...
by Art Petty | Dec 1, 2010 | Leadership
Note from Art: I’m on the soapbox. Great cultures and great performance comes from building teams with strong shared values and a hunger to learn and grow. Too often, we let toxic people linger and the result is….well, it’s toxic. I spend a great...
