by Art Petty | Jun 18, 2010 | Leadership
Note from Art: this post originally appeared as The Five Tripping Points of Emerging Leaders at my Management Excellence blog. The five points are important and bear repeating. Firms and teams run into natural Tripping Points in the form of infrastructure and know-how...
by Art Petty | Jun 18, 2010 | Career, Strategy
Resources, great reads and sound bites for your summer weekends Blink and the week is gone. I’m still not clear how Friday happened so quickly again, but here we are, and here I am with a few suggestions for your weekend professional development time. Values: These...
by Art Petty | Jun 17, 2010 | Uncategorized
Groupthink is one of the most common and nefarious decision-making traps of otherwise well-intentioned teams. While many of us have heard of Groupthink and the historical example that is frequently cited in textbooks, the Kennedy administration’s Bay of Pigs fiasco,...
by Art Petty | Jun 16, 2010 | Career
There are few skills that will take you further and help you more than developing your speaking skills. Your writing skills are a close second. It’s time to confront your fear of speaking and make this critical skill a valuable part of who you are as a...
by Art Petty | Jun 16, 2010 | Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
While we celebrate companies that pursue and succeed in radically changing the rules of the game, let’s face it, most organizations run on inertia. For every company that redefines their little part of the world and changes our culture just a bit, there are plenty of...