by Art Petty | Feb 15, 2012 | Career, Leadership
Note from Art: You are to be excused if the phrase, professional performance drift invokes images of those obnoxious drug commercials that end with people in bathtubs overlooking a lake, followed by a voice-over warning on the potential side-effects that require you...
by Art Petty | Feb 13, 2012 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I’ve yet to run a workshop or program on leadership where anything approaching a majority of the participants describe their initial days of their initial role as a team leader, supervisor or manager as a period when they received much if any support and coaching from...
by Art Petty | Feb 11, 2012 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership
Issue #2 of The Leadership Caffeine Newsletter Next Week. This newly designed publication includes subscriber-only leadership and professional content. The emphasis is on providing ideas to energize development and strengthen performance for you and your teams....
by Art Petty | Feb 10, 2012 | Career
Too many people are caught seemingly by surprise (for some odd reason) that all bets are off on promises of on-going employment. I regularly hear from people who must have missed the memo that employer loyalty expires every pay period. These good people wake up, learn...
by Art Petty | Feb 8, 2012 | Leadership, Strategy
In their July, 2011 Harvard Business Review Article, Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage (great article, worth the $ IMO), Martin Reeves and Mike Deimler make a solid case for our need to cultivate critical soft organizational skills to survive and prosper in...