by Art Petty | Jul 22, 2009 | Career, Leadership
Early in my career as a marketing and product manager working for Panasonic-one of the world’s great companies (IMHO), our division had earned the attention of one of the senior executives of this then $60 billion per year firm. I seem to recall that the attention was...
by Art Petty | Jul 20, 2009 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Notes from Art: My week has already started with a double jolt of leadership caffeine. I speak Monday afternoon on one of my favorite topics: “High Performance Trade Show Marketing Practices” at TS2 in Chicago at McCormick Place, based on the content in the e-guide...
by Art Petty | Jul 17, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
Note from Art: this post was prompted based on my general rankling at the annual migration of corporate teams to strategy offsites. There are more effective ways to get organizations focused and moving than this traditionally dysfunctional, low-outcome event, and the...
by Art Petty | Jul 15, 2009 | Decision-Making, Strategy
In an excellent post by Greg Strouse entitled “The Pleaser’s Dilemma,” Greg laments his own tendency to work too hard for the other guy when negotiating business agreements. He describes a conversation on this topic with an acquaintance as follows: “From a business...
by Art Petty | Jul 14, 2009 | Leadership
I long ago accepted the fact that I’m a slight freak of corporate nature when it comes to sales or marketing. Like my left-handed writing and right-sided everything else, I’m eminently comfortable in seeing the world through the eyes of sales or the eyes of marketing....
