by Art Petty | Jul 15, 2010 | Career
Note from Art: My work brings me in contact with a great number of mid-career professionals beginning to ask hard questions about their professional lives. Consider these philosophical thoughts as encouragement on your journey to finding that lost spark of excitement...
by Art Petty | Jul 11, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I regularly use the label “Senior Contributor” (SC) to reference a state of management maturity that tends to exist somewhere between upper mid-level management or senior knowledge worker and the executive layer. While the hierarchical comparison may be imperfect,...
by Art Petty | Jul 8, 2010 | Leadership, Uncategorized
Note: the Seven Key Questions for Ambitious, Aspiring Leaders, are presented in the book, Practical Lessons in Leadership by Art Petty and Rich Petro. I’ll explore each question here at Building Better Leaders through individual “Leadership Tip of the...
by Art Petty | Jul 8, 2010 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Project Management, Strategy
Groupthink is one of the nefarious decision-making missteps of teams, and a trap that many smart people and groups have fallen victim to throughout history. From the classic example cited in nearly every discussion on decision-making, the Kennedy administration’s Bay...
by Art Petty | Jul 6, 2010 | Career
In his classic article, “Managing Oneself,” (HBR, 1999), the late, great management thinker, Peter Drucker, offered the following: “We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: if you’ve got ambition, drive and smarts, you can rise to the...
