by Art Petty | May 17, 2013 | Career
It’s graduation season again in the U.S. and for most newly minted MBA graduates, it’s time for a reality check. Here are some hard-won words of wisdom on how to navigate the steps immediately following your graduation. All over the U.S., there’s a fresh...
by Art Petty | May 16, 2013 | Career, Challenging Conversations, Just One Thing
Almost all of us get this wrong in the professional environment at some time or another. Myself included. We find ourselves in a tense situation with someone or some group who is attempting to assert a direction or insert themselves into the area we perceive as our...
by Art Petty | May 13, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Strategy
Few concepts in business generate more consternation for managers operating below the C-level, than strategy. Poll your team members or peers, and I’m confident that in most organizations, at least one (or more) of the themes will emerge: We don’t have a strategy. The...
by Art Petty | May 7, 2013 | Leadership
Experience is clearly the best teacher when it comes to learning to lead. However, there are a few items that I wish someone would have pointed out before I tripped all over myself earlier in my career. Forewarned is forearmed! At Least 10 Things I Discovered the Hard...
by Art Petty | May 6, 2013 | Art of Managing, Leading Change, Management Innovation
Mediocre is on display daily in too many areas of our society and in too many of our businesses. From the boss who just doesn’t care to our government seemingly barely functioning to the miserable help-lines of too many firms to the slow gait…the shuffle of retail...
