by Art Petty | Feb 22, 2012 | Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Strategy
I’ve been mildly surprised that the book, Beyond Performance-How Great Organizations Build Competitive Advantage by Scott Keller and Colin Price, hasn’t commanded more attention in mainstream business circles. Perhaps we’ve grown numb to the almost endless number of...
by Art Petty | Feb 20, 2012 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Project Management
We’re often too quick as leaders to throw in the towel on teams that have whiffed. That’s a mistake that may be more costly to performance and morale than the initial and temporary failure. My quick answer to the question in the post title is: absent any visible,...
by Art Petty | Feb 17, 2012 | Leadership
Though-provoking quotes from my current management and leadership reading stack: On Greatness: “Indeed, if there’s one overarching message arising from more than six thousand year of corporate history…it would be this: greatness is not primarily a matter of...
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...