by Art Petty | Mar 8, 2009 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Welcome back for this week’s double-shot of leadership motivation. The gray and wet Midwestern weekend is giving way to a promising new week and it’s time to get going. I’m brewing a pot of New Mexico’s award winning Pinon Coffee, courtesy of my sister-in law as...
by Art Petty | Mar 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
OK, pardon my excitement, but I was thrilled to learn the other day that my blog, Management Excellence, was named to Alltop in the Leadership category! In case you are not familiar with Alltop, it is is a collection of “the latest stories from the best sites and...
by Art Petty | Mar 6, 2009 | Leadership
Intuitively, it makes sense that leaders that are more engaged and engaging tend to elicit better responses and better results from their teams. Perhaps nice people can finish first. Now, the father of the concept of Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman (What Makes...
by Art Petty | Mar 4, 2009 | Leadership, Leading Change
It seems that Yogi Berra was right (that’s the former Yankee player and manager, not the Jellystone Park character on the lookout for a quick meal). One of the reasons that so much business writing and advice sounds familiar is that we conveniently keep repeating the...
by Art Petty | Mar 3, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
One of the themes that I hear consistently in workshops and in discussions with the professionals in my MBA classes is frustration over the propensity of a firm’s leaders to never say “No” to a project. Lacking a viable mechanism to compare, evaluate and select and...
