by Art Petty | Jun 27, 2025 | Uncategorized
This is a quick note to Leadership Caffeine newsletter and Management Excellence blog subscribers, as well as my valued network. At points in life, we are all called to care for family members. This has been my role for the past five weeks and will be a part of my...
by Art Petty | Jun 7, 2024 | Art of Managing, Career, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Self-Development
Summer School Gets a Bad Rap OK, first, let’s take on the summer school label. As a kid growing up in Chicago, I remember thinking that people who had to go to summer school clearly did something bad during the school year. After all, summer was about riding my...
by Art Petty | May 30, 2024 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Product Management, Project Management, Self-Development
As we enter the always busy summer season, here’s the latest in leader and manager development programming from Art Petty. These are not just training programs. I blend coaching + multi-month cohort work, and for several programs, outside guest experts to create...
by Art Petty | May 20, 2024 | Art of Managing, Career, Career Reinvention, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Self-Development, The Manager's Journey
The Destination is Nice, Yet the Joy is in the Journey We moved to our lake home at the tail end of the pandemic. It was a shift from our 30-year suburban Chicago-area home and a chance to run our own version of one of those home renovation shows, where we did a poor...
by Art Petty | May 1, 2024 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Self-Development
Bottom-Line Up-Front: Words are what we have to inspire, motivate, clarify, empower, and enable. Yet, too often, our words work against us and create problems. Start thinking about words as building blocks of great conversations. They’re like Legos, and you can...