by Art Petty | Apr 17, 2017 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I’ve worked for, with, and around extraordinary and mundane leaders. Most are mundane. There are worse things to be than mundane. Mundane leaders are boring, but not immediately toxic. Characteristics of Mundane Leaders: They fail to recognize the power they have to...
by Art Petty | Apr 11, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
Some jobs are harder than others. Navigating the waters of your first-time manager position ranks high on the list. The initial few weeks (years) are what I term the early-awkward phase. Mastery isn’t an issue. Survival is. Mastery comes next decade. Maybe. Most...
by Art Petty | Apr 9, 2017 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership
I’ve managed across cultures for much of my career. I’ve worked with individuals and teams from all around the globe. We’ve been successful. I have people I’m honored to call friends on several continents. For my work as an executive, I intuitively gravitated to...
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...
