by Art Petty | Nov 18, 2015 | Art of Managing, Management Innovation
“Life is too short to waste on playing bad games.” Yu-kai Chou Imagine a world of work where your colleagues work tirelessly to complete the hard work that keeps everything moving. They voluntarily stay late and even deprive themselves of sleep to ensure the work is...
by Art Petty | Nov 17, 2015 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Strategy
“Not miscalculation, bad strategy is the active avoidance of the hard work of crafting a good strategy.” Richard Rumelt—Good Strategy/Bad Strategy Consider: “Our strategy is to be more profitable than our competitors.” “Our strategy is to grow from 10,000 to 100,000...
by Art Petty | Nov 15, 2015 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Product Management, Strategy
The Leadership Caffeine™ series is intended to make you think and act. — A dialog between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in “A Scandal in Bohemia,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: “The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead...
by Art Petty | Nov 13, 2015 | Just One Thing, Leadership, Leading Change
I confess to having cultivated a strong affinity for Big Thinkers in my advancing years as an executive. The flip-side of this growing affinity is my creeping impatience and dismissal of small thinkers. Given the scale and scope of the challenges in our world and in...
by Art Petty | Nov 10, 2015 | Career
Much of the writing about leadership leaves out two of the most critical topics: power and politics. That’s a problem, because the political environment defines the playing field and those with the power dominate the organization’s agenda. Ignoring these facts of...
