by Art Petty | Jan 10, 2011 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
If as Woody Allen indicated, “80-percent of success is just showing up,” the gross majority of the rest of success must be attributable to adopting the right attitude. I’ll leave a little wiggle room in there for the propensity to act and our good friend, luck. Our...
by Art Petty | Jan 7, 2011 | Strategy
Note from Art: One of my professional goals this year is to do a better job sharing insights and perspectives from a broad range of great leadership and management writers and thinkers. Every Friday, I will share my three favorites for the week. This week, I’m...
by Art Petty | Jan 5, 2011 | Decision-Making, Management Innovation, Strategy
Note from Art: this one is intended to jump-start your thinking. Expect more from me on this important topic. Idea generation is core to everything we do in our organizations. We generate ideas to solve problems, serve customers, compete with adversaries, structure...
by Art Petty | Jan 5, 2011 | Uncategorized
Management Excellence Updates for January 5, 2011: The Latest Management Excellence e-Newsletter: I’m a fan of e-newsletters used properly as part of a portfolio of communication tools. While they are just a bit old school, they do offer a format slightly different...
by Art Petty | Jan 3, 2011 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The modern-day practice of alchemy is only metaphorically about the search for a method to turn lead into gold. Instead of the medieval pursuit by alchemists of a magical chemical conversion process to change one element into another, modern practitioners are focused...