by Art Petty | May 19, 2010 | Leadership
A Fast Company article entitled, “The Most Important Leadership Quality for CEOs? Creativity” (referenced by SmartBrief on Leadership), indicates, “For CEOs, creativity is now the most important leadership quality for success in business, outweighing even...
by Art Petty | May 18, 2010 | Career, Decision-Making
Woody Allen famously offered that, “80% of success is showing up.” In my opinion, about 99% of success is “sticktoitiveness,” which is much about dogged persistence in the face of overwhelming obstacles. That awkward non-word is one of the attributes...
by Art Petty | May 17, 2010 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
As allegations surface (bad pun) that there was ample evidence of the failure of a critical gasket and a fail-safe system on the Deep Water Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, it appears as if decisions were made to ignore the potential for disaster in the pursuit of speed...
by Art Petty | May 11, 2010 | Leadership, Project Management
As a long-time, self-described zealot for the importance of project managers developing as leaders, imagine how excited I was to learn about a conference devoted to just this topic! I’ve written at length in this blog (Learning to Lead in the Project Focused World and...
by Art Petty | May 10, 2010 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
One of the most common tripping points of both early-career and experienced leaders is assuming that people are looking at issues and drawing similar conclusions. A leader explains the issues, offers a rationale for her suggested actions, heads nod, a few questions...
