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What D-Day and Other Big Decisions in History Teach Us About Decision-Making as Leaders

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:07:08-05:00June 6th, 2019|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

History is filled with examples where a decision at a moment-in-time changed the outcome. As we commemorate the courage of those who participated in the D-Day Invasion in World War II, I look at Eisenhower's decision that day and another fateful decision 80-years earlier that changed the course of a nation. Our workplace decisions aren't on the same scale, yet, the big decisions at a moment in time do change the fate of organizations. What can we learn from history here?

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For Better Decision-Making, Unpack and Stress Test Assumptions

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:16:53-05:00October 17th, 2017|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

There are many reasons our seemingly failure-proof plans go horribly wrong. One critical step you can take to move the odds of success in the right direction is to borrow a step from Red Teaming and learn to unpack and stress test key assumptions. This article shares some ideas to help you get started with this critical step for strengthening decision-making and planning activities.

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Is Your Decision-Making Style Holding Your Team Hostage?

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:17:56-05:00June 2nd, 2017|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

It was a fascinating experience in contrasting decision-making styles. One moved fast and made decisions on the run. The other studied an issue until the perfect answer emerged. According to HBR, high performing CEOs exhibit speed and conviction when it comes to decision-making.

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Decision-Making and The Three Rules of Risk Management

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:49:29-05:00July 24th, 2008|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Your decision-making style says a lot about you as a leader. Some people make a lot of decisions with little more than a gut hunch to guide them and others spend a lot of time gathering insights and information to support their decision. Others struggle to make decisions on anything and might still be considering what to order for breakfast when it’s time for dinner. And still others avoid making decisions because taking a stand increases the odds that they will be held accountable for results.

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The Meeting is Never for Decision-Making: A Product Management Lesson I Learned at Matsushita

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:51:07-05:00March 18th, 2008|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

While the technique or reaching agreement with your stakeholders one by one ahead of formal approval might seem a bit like playing politics, I prefer to view it as covering the bases. Leaders invest in people they trust and have a sense for, and the ceremony of a group meeting is the wrong place to try and build your trust and credibility.

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Leadership Decision-Making: Learn to Be Like Mike

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:51:57-05:00January 28th, 2008|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Timely decision-making on the part of a leader is an essential ingredient for success. A leader's decision-making speed sets the pace for a team and influences the working environment in a number of positive ways. Rapid decision-making enables action and encourages team members to experiment in pursuit of innovation. It has been my experience that this style of leader tends to actually make fewer direct decisions and instead encourages and enables team members to make the call themselves. The added benefit of this style is the development of trust between all parties and the creation and strengthening of a sense of empowerment for the manager's team members.

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Scale your impact as a manager—six areas where you need to do the heavy lifting

By Art Petty|2025-01-19T12:10:21-06:00January 19th, 2025|Developing as a Senior Manager, Developing Your Career, Ideas for Leadership Success, Professional Development with Art|

For those with managerial experience striving to scale their impact, there are at least six key areas to focus on developing your skills and abilities.

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Nine rules turnaround leaders can live by that don’t involve ‘fixing the culture’

By Art Petty|2025-01-09T12:38:11-06:00January 9th, 2025|Bad managers and lousy leaders, Developing as a Senior Manager, Ideas for Leadership Success, Talking About Strategy, The Management System|

Leaders charged with righting foundering organizations often claim “the culture is broken.” However, just as you cannot fix people, experience tells me that focusing on fixing a culture is a fool’s errand. Instead, focus on these nine issues:

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Reaching for the Executive Ranks, Part Three—Developing as an Integrative Thinker

By Art Petty|2024-09-09T10:20:06-05:00September 9th, 2024|Developing as a Senior Manager|

The essence of your role as a senior manager is problem-solving through decision-making. Cultivating your critical thinking skills is right up there with the need to lead effectively at scale, project the presence essential to building credibility, and galvanizing support In this article, I share a case study and some resources for strengthening as an integrative thinker.

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For Managers: Stop the Drama Storms by Bringing the Rules for Success to Life

By Art Petty|2024-06-24T11:18:12-05:00June 24th, 2024|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Culture in a group is too important to be left to chance. Managers must work together with group members to define what it means to collaborate, communicate, problem-solve, and innovate in pursuit of their function's charter.

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