by Art Petty | Apr 2, 2013 | Career, Leadership
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by Art Petty | Mar 31, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Speed kills. Except when it comes to the development of your emerging leaders. In my experience, many senior managers move too slowly to expose their developing leaders to new and more challenging situations. This is a mistake that artificially inhibits professional...
by Art Petty | Mar 24, 2013 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.” -Dwight Eisenhower Chance are, you’ve seen this movie before. It’s the one where you or your team are on the hook for distilling the chaos and complexity of the market...
by Art Petty | Mar 18, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Project Management
“This would be easy if it weren’t for the people.” -Project Manager I’ve been invited to deliver a talk to a group of project management professionals ostensibly around the issue of dealing with difficult people on project teams. The challenge with this topic is...
by Art Petty | Mar 10, 2013 | Art of Managing, Management Innovation
In the past two weeks there’s been a buzz in the world of business generated by two firms changing longstanding flexible working arrangements. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced an end to the firm’s liberal telecommuting policy, and Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly tossed out...