by Art Petty | Sep 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
As I sat down to write my first leadership post of the week, I found myself staring out the window at my dry, midwestern lawn, and for just a moment, I wished for rain. And then the ridiculousness of that wish clubbed me over the head, given what’s happening in...
by Art Petty | Sep 8, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, First Time Manager Series
I still recall my not so glorious introduction to managing. If it weren’t for a great mentor, I might have found myself on the wrong end of an insurrection from my group members. It turns out, this work of managing is a lot more challenging than most of us anticipate....
by Art Petty | Sep 6, 2017 | Career, Leadership
I would be shocked if you cannot recall being in a meeting where someone in a position of authority was uttering something so fantastically full of crap that you thought you might choke. I would be even more shocked if the general response of the individuals present...
by Art Petty | Sep 1, 2017 | Career, Just One Thing, Leading Change
As an organizational leader, change is the stuff of long days and sleepless nights. For everyone else in the organization, the moment in time when you learn change is inevitable is often the stuff of panic attacks. That’s a shame because a more rational response...
by Art Petty | Aug 28, 2017 | First Time Manager Series, Leadership
My own challenging first-time management experience aside, I’ve worked with hundreds of first-time managers in a variety of programs, and there’s just no way to sugarcoat reality for this job. Surviving the early phase is a bit like what it must feel like to scale...
