by Art Petty | Sep 20, 2018 | Career, First Time Manager Series
There are Challenges—But Managing Can Be a Great Job and Career! This article is all about balancing the scale a bit for those aspiring to management or early in their careers as first-time managers. You see, in spite of my ample warnings on the difficulties of this...
by Art Petty | Sep 19, 2018 | Art of Managing, Career, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The Situation: The door opened, and Beth’s manager ushered her into a crowded room of senior managers gathered around the executive conference table. It was quiet, and she broke the silence with an enthusiastic “Good morning!” There was a chorus of responses and...
by Art Petty | Sep 17, 2018 | Art of Managing, Career, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
During college, I worked a variety of manual labor jobs inside factories to earn much-needed money for the upcoming school year. For one of the more physically demanding jobs, the foreman could regularly be heard shouting at the workers “Put your back into...
by Art Petty | Sep 13, 2018 | Career, Career Reinvention
There’s a process to reinventing your career. Unfortunately, for those who like things nice and tidy and linear, the process regularly involves pivoting and back-tracking plus navigating the occasional unanticipated course correction. And while there’s no...
by Art Petty | Sep 12, 2018 | Career, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
“The most important figures that one needs for management are unknown or unknowable.” W. Edwards Deming I fret over feedback poorly provided. I also recognize that not all feedback is worth listening to—a great deal depends upon the source and the motivations of the...
