by Art Petty | Oct 8, 2009 | Career, Leadership
Ah, the life of a leader runs on worry. You’ve moved beyond worrying about your own job to focusing on seizing more power during this opportunity called a recession. You’ve been shedding workers at a record pace to keep the bean-counters happy with your...
by Art Petty | Oct 6, 2009 | Career, Leadership
Note from Art: It’s always fun when a post strikes a chord and compels someone to comment or even put hands to keyboard and crank out a guest post. Last week’s “Leadership Lessons Learned In a Crane and Sitting on a 5 Gallon Pail” drew upon...
by Art Petty | Oct 4, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Everyone loves a winner. As a society, we like watching and reading about winners. We worship our sports heroes and we study and celebrate the great victories of history. Hundreds of millions of people around the globe watch the Super Bowl every year, but only 5 or...
by Art Petty | Oct 4, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leading Change
Becky Robinson, the articulate and highly engaging author of one of my favorite blogs, Leader Talk, has posted the October edition of the always exciting and thought-provoking Leadership Development Carnival. She appropriately names this one the Endurance Edition, in...
by Art Petty | Oct 2, 2009 | Career, Decision-Making
I know an awful lot of talented, hard-working people talking about or rehearsing for the process of reinventing their professional selves. This is the silent epidemic taking place in people over 40 that doesn’t garner the same level of attention as our anticipated flu...