The Leadership Caffeine Blog
March 2023 Leadership Development Carnival
For many years, I've had the pleasure and honor of submitting my Leadership Caffeine articles to the monthly Leadership Development Carnival coordinated by the great team at Weaving Influence. This monthly collection of ideas, inspiration, and guidance for all of us...
March 2023 Leadership Development Carnival
For many years, I've had the pleasure and honor of submitting my Leadership Caffeine articles to the monthly Leadership Development Carnival coordinated by the great team at Weaving Influence. This monthly collection of ideas, inspiration, and guidance for all of us...
Good Managers Watch the Actors, Not Just the Action
In my experience, the best managers are devoted students of the art of character study—not out of some desire to play armchair psychologist, but rather out of the desire to help. Here’s why…
Promoted! Clean House or Just Rearrange the Furniture?
One of the initial decisions you face when you are promoted to a leadership role with direct report managers is whether to focus on building around the talent you just inherited or clean house and start fresh with a team that is most definitely yours. Your approach will have a profound impact on your ultimate success. Here are some key considerations when facing this issue:
Art’s Writing and Week in Review for March 5, 2016
A free new e-book! And in case you missed it, the latest leadership and management writing from Art Petty, and some thoughts on the week just past.
Tough Leadership Day? Smile and Keep Marching
Let’s face it, bad days happen to all of us. How you choose to respond sets a powerful example for your team and most definitely impacts your results. You can grumble and groan or steel your resolve, smile and keep marching. I opt for the latter.
Leadership Caffeine™—The Human Cost of Mismanaging Change
Fresh from a round of recent engagements, here are some very real reminders of how personal change is and how poorly we as leaders perform in guiding our people through the fog. I include 7 ideas to help you immediately raise your game on guiding change.
Leadership Caffeine™ Podcast #21—Full Potential Running
Every once in awhile, I come across individuals who inspire me by their enthusiasm and passion for their profession, their pursuits and for life. Eric Wallor and Michael Lucchesi, proprietors of the running coaching business, Full Potential Running, are two of those individuals. These two combine for a podcast more fun than any morning sports show, with some great business and life tie-ins.
Leadership Caffeine™—It’s All Practice
A few months before his untimely passing, I had a chance to sit down and talk with an individual who helped mold my own leadership aspirations and behaviors over my career. The wisdom he imparted in our all-too-short conversation would fill books on the topic of learning to lead. Enjoy!
Art’s Writing and Week in Review for February 20, 2016
The work this week ranged from mentoring first-time managers, and building trust on your team to thoughts on building accountability, turning stress into performance and leveraging the insights of those brilliant management thinkers, the videogame designers. Enjoy!
What Videogame Designers Can Teach Us About Organizational Change
The ability to rewire our thinking about change may be a fundamental survival skill in a period of time where accelerating change is a given. Change must be interpreted as challenge, and building a culture that embraces the pursuit of a steady stream of new challenges must be the mandate of leaders. I think the video game designers have already cracked this code.