by Art Petty | Jun 13, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership
Too many managers outsource the hard work of finding the right talent. Almost all of them outsource the even harder work of developing talent. You might as well outsource breathing. No wonder managers get a bad name in our culture, particularly in the ridiculous...
by Art Petty | Jun 8, 2016 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership Caffeine Podcast
When it comes to the world of sales management, David A. Brock (Dave) is a heavyweight. He has a long history of success leading some of the biggest and best sales teams in the technology arena, and his firm, Partners in EXCELLENCE, has grown into one of the...
by Art Petty | Jun 7, 2016 | Leadership
Note from Art: I am excited to feature the leadership ideas of John Blakey here in his post, “The Executive Leader of the Future.” The post is timed with the recent availability of his excellent and timely new book, “The Trusted Executive: Nine...
by Art Petty | Jun 6, 2016 | Career, Leadership Caffeine, Project Management
As I mention in the video below, an off-hand comment from my brilliant webmaster, Bob, at DigiSage, gave life to the collection of essays in Leadership Caffeine—Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development. While Bob’s idea turned out to be a lot of work in...
by Art Petty | Jun 5, 2016 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
A good number of decisions in business (and life) include choices that beg selecting the least bad option. Do we pull in that big deal with a discount incentive to dress up this quarter’s poor numbers and in the process, create a hole for the next quarter? Do we go...
