by Art Petty | Jan 2, 2016 | Career, Leadership, Management Innovation, Project Management
In case you missed it: At the Management Excellence Blog: The Inner Game of Leading and Your New Year’s Resolutions. Interested in strengthening your effectiveness as a leader this year? Skip the annual resolutions and focus on developing a process for daily...
by Art Petty | Dec 30, 2015 | Leadership
For the past few transitions to the new year, I’ve reposted my “A Leader’s Resolutions are Calendar Blind” article, suggesting that we need a bit more frequent refresh than this annual once per year, open-season on resolution resets. While I stand behind the...
by Art Petty | Dec 21, 2015 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
If you’ve ever worked incredibly hard only to have something run off the rails or just not generate the results you were after, you understand what an imbalance in the Efforts-to-Results ratio feels like. I recall rankling at a college writing instructor who gave me a...
by Art Petty | Dec 11, 2015 | Just One Thing
I’m not certain we needed a research study to prove that we naturally appreciate fresh-starts, nonetheless, now we have one. A team at Wharton discovered (seriously?) the Fresh Start Effect, in a study that suggests, “new beginnings can prompt us to tackle personal...
by Art Petty | Dec 9, 2015 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Strategy
Yahoo—a name left over from the boom and bust period of the dot.com world—has somehow managed to limp along in a world where many struggle to understand its value proposition. The financial markets vote with their valuations, and have recently concluded that the firm...
