by Art Petty | Oct 17, 2018 | Career, Career Re-mix
Reframing has been on my mind recently. It’s a powerful tool for stimulating ideas and changing your thinking and approaches in all aspects of your life. In the fabulous resource, Designing Your Life—How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans...
by Art Petty | Oct 15, 2018 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Strategy
“This isn’t a problem, it’s an opportunity” is a cliché with oomph. It’s a simple, oft-referenced statement masking a powerful tool called reframing. The essence of reframing is to encourage us to look at situations from different perspectives in search of unique and...
by Art Petty | Oct 11, 2018 | Art of Managing, Career, Just One Thing, Leadership
We all have a tipping point where the volume of work in front of us moves from formidable to seemingly impossible. Formidable can be motivating. However, once the scales tip toward the seemingly impossible side for any significant duration, motivation and attitude fly...
by Art Petty | Oct 7, 2018 | Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Strategy
Stock market investors and most organizational leaders genuinely dislike uncertainty. I understand why it plays havoc with investor psychology. Yet managing the unexpected is the real job of today’s leaders. Much of the theory of management implies we can plan,...
by Art Petty | Oct 5, 2018 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
A Career-Long Mission to Help New Managers Succeed I’m on record fairly frequently and aggressively advocating for the careful, deliberate, sustained development of our first-time or new managers. (Check out the many, many articles in my First-Time Manager category.)...
