by Art Petty | Oct 25, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation
Note from Art: application of the ideas in this post has been known to stimulate creativity in some office environments. In a limited number of cases, use of these ideas or concepts has caused distress mostly due to failure to properly follow instructions or, because...
by Art Petty | Oct 20, 2010 | Leadership, Management Innovation, Marketing, Product Management
Note from Art: my view to marketing comes from 2+ decades in B2B technology firms large and small, foreign and domestic, as well as 4-years working with small to mid sized manufacturing and service businesses. While your own environment may be different than the one I...
by Art Petty | Oct 19, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leading Change
Have You Shared Your Expertise Today? I’ve had the great privilege this past year to work with a Fortune 50 company that is methodically conquering the retail world. Specifically, I’m working with a group of high-potential mid-level professionals all focused on...
by Art Petty | Oct 18, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I grew up to the refrain of “be a leader, not a follower,” and the drive to lead is part of who I am. Part and parcel of that has been a natural resistance through much of my early career to the notion that, “to be a good leader, you need to be a good follower.” For...
by Art Petty | Oct 15, 2010 | Decision-Making, Leadership
If you’ve ever been the parent of the patient in a hospital, you know that you are hypersensitive to everything going on with your child. Spend a few weeks camping out in the hospital room, and you’ll feel like you’ve earned at least your first semester’s credits for...