Wake-Up Calls for Managers
For the hard parts no one prepares you for
When the path isn’t clear, the stakes are high, and the answers aren’t obvious—this is where managers struggle most.
Wake-Up Calls for Managers delivers practical, real-world guidance for navigating:
- Tough conversations
- Leading through uncertainty
- Building influence without authority
- Driving results through others
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Scale your impact as a manager—six areas where you need to do the heavy lifting
To those with managerial experience who strive to do more, the climb does not always matter. It's much about growing your impact. I work with many seasoned managers who are hungry to do more, learn more, and challenge themselves while finding new ways to contribute to...
Scale your impact as a manager—six areas where you need to do the heavy lifting
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.
The Right Way to Prepare for Asking for a Raise or Promotion
Why is asking for a raise or promotion so difficult and sometimes scary? It is not something you do on a regular basis, and there are many complexities involved. Here are ideas to help you prepare for and succeed with this important ask:
Leadership Caffeine Podcast—The Conclusion Trap with Dan Markovitz
Dan Markovitz, consultant and author of The Conclusion Trap: Four Steps to Better Decisions, joins Art Petty on this episode of the Leadership Caffeine podcast.
Leadership and Management Book Talk—Our Favorite Little-Known Reads
Wally Bock and Art Petty connect to talk about their favorite, unknown books on this latest episode of the Leadership and Management Book Talk podcast. In what is never a surprise, they come at the topic from opposite ends of the spectrum.
Leadership Caffeine™—Stop Talking, Start Asking and Listening
In this crisis environment, there are only two behaviors that will save your organization: curiosity and listening.
Nightmares in Workplace Communications and How to Strengthen as a Communicator
Most of us have a few communication moments in our careers that we would like to either do-over or erase our brains’ memories. Here are a few of mine and what I learned that help me grow as a workplace communicator:
Leadership and Management Book Talk—First Quarter Favorites
Wally Bock and I share thoughts on our favorite leadership and management reads from this year’s first quarter on the latest podcast episode.
Uncover Your Professional Value Proposition to Improve Your Job and Career Success
Whether you’re looking for a job, asking for a promotion, or focused on reinventing your career, you need to be able to articulate and showcase your Professional Value Proposition (PVP). The same goes for situations where you are asking for more, including angling for a promotion or seeking a raise. It turns out, uncovering and articulating your PVP is a challenging exercise. Here are ideas to help:
Leadership and Management Book Talk—Exploring Two Books from Jim Collins
Art Petty and Wally Bock talk about some of the later books in Jim Collins’ Good to Great Series: How the Mighty Fall and Great by Choice. Both of us agree, one is a great business book and highly relevant for our world today.
It’s Time to Rethink Leadership Around Leading for Resilience
In this article, I make the case we’ve been developing and valuing the wrong qualities in our organization’s leaders. We need to focus on a new style of leadership—leading for resilience.