by Art Petty | Mar 7, 2013 | Career, Decision-Making, Just One Thing, Leadership
Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. -Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Leading is lonely work. The higher you climb on the ladder, the tougher and lonelier the decisions become. Get used...
by Art Petty | Mar 3, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
“Ideas are easy; doing stuff is hard.” –Seth Godin and “Innovation and creativity are emergent, not causal properties of teamwork.” –Jim Highsmith. Ideas in the workplace that are voiced but never vetted or pursued are the corporate equivalent of those brilliant...
by Art Petty | Feb 27, 2013 | Just One Thing, Leadership, Leading Change
I love this quote by Manchester United’s Sir Alex Ferguson, as described in Mark De Rond’s book, There is an I in Team, “There is no substitute for talent but, on the field, talent without unity of purpose is a hopelessly devalued currency.” The essence of good...
by Art Petty | Feb 24, 2013 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
One of the oddities of organizational life is the fairly frequent and sudden promotion of individuals from competent individual contributor to someone responsible for the work of others…supervisor or manager, without any visible sign of mentoring or support for the...
by Art Petty | Feb 17, 2013 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation, Project Management, Strategy
In preparation for an upcoming presentation, I’ve become a bit obsessed with studying the 1910 expeditions and race between Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott to 90-degrees South (the South Pole). The lessons for leaders and managers practically leap off the...
