by Art Petty | Apr 7, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
We’re taught from an early age in school what we need to do to earn the “A.” Unfortunately, the real world isn’t that structured, predictable, or kind. Learning to tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty in business is essential for survival....
by Art Petty | Apr 6, 2017 | Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership
The term, Shifting Baseline Syndrome, is used to describe the acceptance of changes in baseline measures in a system over time. This syndrome masks or distorts reality. An ecologist who takes key measures of an ecosystem at one point and time and references those as...
by Art Petty | Apr 3, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
If you live to be 75 years old, that’s 2.37 Gigaseconds. A relative blink of an eye. We all choose to invest our unknown allotment of time in different ways. Some strive for financial resources and others for significance. Some focus on creating and building. Others...
by Art Petty | Mar 26, 2017 | Career, Career Reinvention, Strategy
This started out as an article on the importance of letting go to move forward. It ended up as an article suggesting the dreams that inspired us in our youth offer important clues to our true potential and purpose in life. It turns out, letting go and pursuing the...
by Art Petty | Mar 24, 2017 | Career, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
Imagine taking on the simultaneous equation of solving for strengthening your firm’s performance, while growing as a leader and learning to be at your best all of the time. Admittedly, those are lofty ambitions on their own, and akin to climbing Everest without...
