by Art Petty | May 6, 2009 | Career, Leadership
For those of you that have followed this blog, heard me speak or have been a participant in one of my MBA classes or workshops, you know that I’ve opted for the dissenting opinion on this youngest generation in the workforce. I am consistently wowed by the mix...
by Art Petty | May 5, 2009 | Career, Leadership
At the beginning of my leadership workshops, one of the ice-breaking activities is to have the participants think about and jot down the characteristics and behaviors of great and lousy leaders that they’ve experienced in their careers. It’s always fun...
by Art Petty | May 4, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I’m taking my morning coffee to go for the first few days this week as I catch a commuter train into downtown Chicago to run a leadership workshop at The Data Warehouse Institute’s World Conference. The audience at this week’s conference is predominantly technical as...
by Art Petty | Apr 30, 2009 | Career, Marketing, Product Management, Project Management
A fact of life in our world is that you will inevitably face the prospect of having to reinvent your professional self. For many this is a daunting task that gets put off along with getting in shape, painting the house and writing a book. The dream is nice, but the...
by Art Petty | Apr 29, 2009 | Uncategorized
Call me old-fashioned, but just because so many of us are interacting from behind a screen doesn’t mean that the rules of etiquette and common courtesy have been suspended. In case you didn’t get the memo on the importance of professional courtesy in an on-line world,...
