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...
by Art Petty | Sep 4, 2018 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation, Strategy
It’s no secret that top leaders and their management teams struggle with strategy. After all, choosing a direction, saying “no” to other opportunities and then creating a blueprint for organization-wide involvement is one of the most difficult challenges of...
by Art Petty | Aug 27, 2018 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Project Management, Strategy
I like curious leaders and managers, and I love curious employees. There’s something invigorating about working with individuals curious about what makes things work or why things are done the way they are. And there’s something exhilarating in bringing a program or...
by Art Petty | Aug 21, 2018 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
As career steps go, shifting from individual contributor to manager is right up there near the top for difficulty level. If you navigated this transition at some point and sustained your career as a manager, you have scars or at least cringe-worthy stories of your...
by Art Petty | Aug 19, 2018 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Good managers work hard at pushing fear out of the workplace. Yet, even in the healthiest of organizations, fear’s close cousin, anxiety, worms its way into our consciousness and governs how we process and react to the idea of change and each other. Skilled change...
