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...
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 Re-mix, 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...
