by Art Petty | Oct 22, 2017 | Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Strategy
Most large-scale business transformations fail. It’s difficult but not impossible. I’m not talking about tactical and even minor strategic adjustments. I’m talking about wholesale transformations—the type where everything that used to work no longer does. “Honey, they...
by Art Petty | Oct 17, 2017 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Strategy
Unchecked assumptions in our strategic and product or project planning activities are like that car in the blind-spot of our mirrors when driving down the highway. Failing to check before making a move can have disastrous consequences. Effective teams and planners,...
by Art Petty | Oct 16, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Product Management, Project Management
For most of us in our workplaces, there’s no avoiding the presence of cross-functional teams. Too many of our projects and programs cross over departmental or divisional boundary lines to vanquish these groupings of often prickly, over-taxed individuals. And heck, the...
by Art Petty | Oct 15, 2017 | Career, Career Reinvention
Note from Art: Thanks to the wonders of technology, this webinar is regularly rebroadcast. Click here and you will be given a number of time options. If you happen to miss the time option, you will receive a link to a replay. The traffic in this event continues to be...
by Art Petty | Oct 13, 2017 | Art of Managing, Just One Thing, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management
“We’ll get this done. I’ll put a team on it.” In truth, there are far fewer teams in the workplace than the use of the term might have you believe. Mostly, we have groups. Or, we have collections of individuals driven by their calendars to show up at an appointed time...
