by Art Petty | Aug 21, 2016 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Strategy
Strategy never happens in a straight line. It’s a journey filled with zigs and zags and fateful decisions. If it’s easy or fast, or is magically generated from a template, it’s probably not strategy. Leaders who take this work seriously understand the existential...
by Art Petty | Aug 15, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Strategy
I once worked for a firm that reorganized every April. You could set your watch by it. Nothing important or innovative happened from January to June. Even at my young age, it was clear after a couple of cycles that the reorganization was a political chess game that...
by Art Petty | Aug 11, 2016 | Career, Leadership
There are seemingly endless opportunities to waste our time in search of improved productivity, increased creativity and higher quality in our personal and working lives. The buffet of apps for our devices and seemingly endless articles offering tips to help us...
by Art Petty | Aug 9, 2016 | Art of Managing, Career, Leadership
As leaders, managers, and contributors, we make the choice every day to transact or transform in our encounters with colleagues and customers. Many opt for the former, exhibiting the bare minimum amount of energy to reasonably fulfill their obligation to the other...
by Art Petty | Aug 4, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Strategy
Next …it’s the sign of the times. Seeking next is the new state of normal for most of us in our careers and almost all of us in our businesses. We all need to get good at next. No business can afford to run in place. Yesterday’s great strategy is tomorrow’s business...
