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...
by Art Petty | Aug 27, 2017 | Art of Managing, Leadership
Give me a choice between working for a hard-driving, perfection demanding so-and-so and someone who is inordinately preoccupied with my feelings; I will take the former every time. It will be stressful, occasionally unpleasant, and the unyielding expectation of high...
by Art Petty | Aug 25, 2017 | Just One Thing, Leadership
The funny (as in odd) thing about the idea of leadership is there’s nothing particularly challenging about it. We’re not unifying theories of physics or contemplating the greater meaning of life. Leadership is common sense. Why then, do so many fail to get it right?...
