by Art Petty | Nov 29, 2015 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Fair warning—watch out ahead for excessive use of alliteration and the massacre of more than a few innocent metaphors. — What I really wanted to call this post was, “Quit Acting Like a Hyper-Rooster.” It’s much more visual, and after all, does anyone really want...
by Art Petty | Nov 23, 2015 | Leadership Caffeine
Grit is a good word. It’s an even better trait. You know what grit is when you see it. It’s that grind-it-out sticktoitiveness in the face of adversity displayed by individuals long on character and short on “I can’t” Grit is my mother facing her cancer with courage...
by Art Petty | Nov 20, 2015 | Career, Just One Thing
A good number of individuals I know are battling professional adversity in one of its many forms. In these particular cases, circumstances converged to push them to embark upon personal quests. One is responding to an unanticipated career interruption to pursue what...
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...
