by Art Petty | Jun 14, 2018 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
For the record, I love Tom Peters’ latest book, “The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work that Wows and Jobs that Last.” It reads like a common-sense punch-in-the-nose reminder on pursuing excellence in the moment with every breath and action you and...
by Art Petty | Jun 4, 2018 | Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Strategy
One of the many conundrums of today’s overtaxed and under-resourced front-line managers is the issue of coaching the development of emerging leaders. Few argue with the importance of this objective, yet the “how” is an abstract concept. The words make sense and heads...
by Art Petty | May 31, 2018 | Career, Career Reinvention
Einstein was wrong. We can control time. Ask any person occupying a job they hate or stuck working for a manager they despise, and they will tell you that time has reduced to a crawl, turning hours and days into something that feels like a slow, unrelenting,...
by Art Petty | May 24, 2018 | Leadership, Management Innovation, Strategy
“How long will this strategy work take?” I was asked this question recently by a harried CEO. The follow-on: “Can we knock this out in an afternoon?” left me momentarily speechless. The need for speed in our world is understandable. However, “knocking out” the work...
by Art Petty | May 21, 2018 | Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
Crying, yelling, table-pounding anger and shock. And no, I’m not describing my actions when I invested two-hours in watching a season finale of my favorite show to learn the DVR malfunctioned at the critical moment. Rather, these are the emotions every experienced...