by Art Petty | Feb 10, 2019 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Challenging management and performance conversations regularly run off the rails. They are often muddled, mixed-up, and monumentally massacred. Nonetheless, at least people are attempting to talk about the tough topics—even if things occasionally go cattywampus (look...
by Art Petty | Feb 4, 2019 | Career Re-mix
The decision to say goodbye to a role, firm, or industry and find a new way to apply your skills and accumulated wisdom is nontrivial. Career reinvention is hard work, filled with ambiguity and risks. And for those who undertake and sustain their career reinvention...
by Art Petty | Feb 3, 2019 | Art of Managing, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
My online dictionary defines conundrum as a confusing or difficult problem. The dictionary editors might as well use the act of moving from individual contributor to new manager as the leading example. Sure, every experienced manager navigates this awkward career...
by Art Petty | Jan 27, 2019 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Strategy, The Leadership Opportunity
For some reason, I’ve always been attuned to and intrigued by the moments where fateful decisions hang in the balance promising to change everything. These are moments when the drama is so thick you can cut it with a knife. You recognize the gravity of the decision,...
by Art Petty | Jan 20, 2019 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, Just One Thing, Leadership
Our workday lives and workplaces are daily exercises in challenging conversations. From feedback and coaching discussions to interchanges with coworkers who can say, “Yes” or “No” to your requests for resources, process changes, budgetary allocations or fresh ideas,...
