by Art Petty | Jun 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
Innovation isn’t just the domain of engineers, designers and other creative product types and functions inside organizations. Everyone and every function has the opportunity to innovate in pursuit of serving internal or external customers, improving business...
by Art Petty | Jun 21, 2010 | Leadership
It’s often difficult to gauge whether your leadership practices are helping improve your team’s situation. I encourage leaders to look for these signs as evidence that things are heading in the proper direction: The Seven Indicators of the Effective Work...
by Art Petty | Jun 21, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
If you’ve ever had the good fortune to watch a skilled carpenter or mechanic or any proficient trade-person, one of the first things that you will notice is the care that they take in selecting the right tool for the task at hand. As someone who practices the trades...
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...
