by Art Petty | Mar 21, 2012 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leading Change, Project Management
As a lifelong team participant and now devotee of leveraging the power of teams, I was fascinated and excited to see the article, “The New Science of Building Great Teams,” in the April, 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review. (Subscription required for the full...
by Art Petty | Mar 19, 2012 | Leadership
A few years ago, I wrote a post entitled, “At Least 20 Things to Stop Doing as a Leader” Reader comments quickly quadrupled that number. It seems there’s no shortage of Bad Boss habits. Here’s a few more “fresh” suggestions provided by clients for...
by Art Petty | Mar 12, 2012 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Few events do more to suck the life and energy out of a team than the boss’s weekly status meeting. If you are the boss, it’s time to exorcise these from your operating routine. These forced marches around the table offering up banal or purely self-aggrandizing...
by Art Petty | Mar 8, 2012 | Career, Leadership
It’s easy for those of us who count our career in decades to discount how well attuned our youngest workers are to what defines good leadership and good business practices. To do so, is a mistake. Long-time readers know that I maintain a regimen of consulting/training...
by Art Petty | Mar 5, 2012 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Newsflash: all good leaders make mistakes. A great number of them. Everyday. After all, there are people involved, and this would be really easy without the people. Fortunately, people are all that we have. The true test of your leadership character isn’t measured by...
