image of book cover for Leadership Caffeine by Art PettyWhile both the paperback and Kindle versions of my newest work, Leadership Caffeine-Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development, have been available on Amazon for a few days, I’ve not yet pulled the trigger on a public launch.  In fact, when talking to my marketing manager, I suggested that instead of a launch as an event, I would much prefer a rolling launch.

I learned about rolling events from how we treat birthdays in my family.  Over time with my wife and two sons, birthdays have elongated to encompass about two weeks of various events, gatherings and activities.  Given that we all only have a limited number of these things…(much like the books I’ll be able to write), it’s clear to me that birthdays and book launches are too much fun to limit to one day!

What to Expect from the Well-Caffeinated Launch of Leadership Caffeine:

I’ll try and not be too over-the-top on shamelessly pitching the book, but I am most definitely going to talk a bit…and share a lot. Yeah, and of course, the marketing team is requiring me to give some of these away…which is fun. They are also encouraging me to highlight to everyone the two things that this collection of leadership and professional writings is intended to do:

1. Provide you with ideas and approaches that help you through the bad days and push you constantly to strive for greatness as a professional and a leader.

2. Provide you with a tool to use with your teams, groups, classes, departments on strengthening performance, developing great ideas, making the right decisions and prospering together.

That’s my long way of saying this collection has legs for groups..as well as for individuals.

Look for some promotional activities that focus on both.  Oh yes, and we’ll podcast on the book, gain some insights from early reviewers and of course, find ways to get a few free copies in the hands of great people!

A Note to Regular Blog Readers:

Several people have suggested that I’m more concerned about this topic than I should be. Regardless, it is personally important for me to let you, my regular blog readers know that this collection of content is drawn from this site. There’s about a million words here at Management Excellence…strewn over 700+ posts and an e-book. This book distills that down to 341 pages,  83 annotated, edited essays, well-organized for at a glance reading, highlighting and hoped for dog-earing of pages. (Still haven’t figured out how to dog ear a kindle page.) It’s eminently more usable, portable and fun than parsing through a million words looking for just the right idea at the time.

For those who have not been exposed to the work here, this is a non-issue. For you, my valued readers, you are duly informed. Having said that, I think you’ll find the content in a bound or kindle format to be eminently easier to reference and a lot more fun to pass along to your colleagues.

The Bottom-Line for Now:

I am excited about an opportunity to provide another tool in a different medium (actually media with the kindle version) to support your success. The intent with this work-product is noble and my hope is that it helps and supports the growth of great people and teams for years to come.