by Art Petty | Jul 22, 2017 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Strategy
From long experiencing working both sides of the strategy table (as an executive and now as a consultant), I know that no one size or no one framework works for all situations. Adding to the complexity of navigating strategy, there are a large number of strategy...
by Art Petty | Jul 6, 2017 | Career, Just One Thing
“Research suggests that the human mind has a propensity to pay greater attention to and process the bad compared to the good, a phenomenon often called the negativity bias. Bad feedback has greater impact; bad impressions are quicker to form; bad information is...
by Art Petty | Jun 27, 2017 | First Time Manager Series
While your promotion to manager places some distance between you and your former team members, it opens up an entirely new and potentially valuable network of peers in other front-line management roles. One of your early tasks as a manager is to begin cultivating...
by Art Petty | Jun 26, 2017 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Imagine assembling a team of all-star professionals boasting great pedigrees of success to tackle a big, exciting expedition, and seeing them fall flat with sub-par performance. The disappointment is palpable, and if you’re the manager who assembled this team, the...
by Art Petty | Jun 21, 2017 | Just One Thing, Miscellaneous Pet Peeves
I like to ask questions and listen. (Good leaders do the same.) It must have been my mother’s influence. Or, maybe the nuns at St. Matthias. Regardless of the sources, I’ve always considered it to be common courtesy in social and business settings to strive to create...
