by Art Petty | Feb 17, 2010 | Career, Leadership
Another one of my nearly endless and on-going leadership experiments deals with ambiguity in all of its forms and fashions. Many of my exchanges sound like the following, where I annoyingly (to the questioner) dodge giving the answer. “What do you think I should do?”...
by Art Petty | Feb 15, 2010 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
With apologies to Yogi Berra for borrowing and twisting his classic phrase, a little Vuja De in your daily leadership life might just be the prescription to turbocharge team and individual performance. I’m re-reading Tom Kelley’s outstanding book, “The Ten Faces of...
by Art Petty | Feb 12, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leading Change
In my opinion, he’s never been irrelevant as a management philosopher, teacher and advisor, but our fast-moving, idol-for-a-minute, fad-crazed modern culture, we’re quick to write off those thinkers and doers from prior eras as yesterday’s relics…interesting perhaps,...
by Art Petty | Feb 10, 2010 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership
Note from Art: this post is the outcome of some great discussions in MBA and undergraduate class settings on the emerging U.S. and global workplace. I’ve offered blog commentary recently on the issue of the false promise of , “The Disposable...
by Art Petty | Feb 8, 2010 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
As leaders, we all know that it’s the little things that count. A word of encouragement might just be rocket fuel for one person while a constructive suggestion serves as the same for another. Alternatively, ignoring or paying superficial attention to a topic that...
