by Art Petty | Apr 14, 2010 | Career, Decision-Making
Really Bad Career Advice: A friend embarking on a next-step job search initiated a conversation with the recruiter she had used for hiring purposes for several years. While most of the conversation was spent listening to how horrible his business was, he finally...
by Art Petty | Aug 12, 2009 | Career, Marketing
One of the best lessons that I’ve learned from working on about two million fix-it and improvement projects with my Dad is to match the right tool to the job at hand. This is particularly true in searching for a job, which can be one of the more vexing projects...
by Art Petty | Jul 26, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Note from Art: this one’s with a little help from my friends. I’ve been working a great deal with first-time leaders recently (my favorite groups!) and I posted a tweet to the extremely talented group of great people that I follow on Twitter asking what they wish...
by Art Petty | Jun 15, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
It’s a great week of slowly rising temperatures here in Chicago, but still not prime time for iced coffee in the morning. Today’s cup is a dark, bold Papau New Guinea, roasted locally of course. Now before you skewer me for suggesting in the title of this post that...
by Art Petty | Apr 2, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Marketing
A collection of sound bites and developmental suggestions for busy professionals: The Challenges of New Leaders: Feedback on Practical Lessons In Leadership: Thanks to Dan McCarthy at Great Leadership for featuring my book with Rich Petro, Practical Lessons in...