Art Petty, Author at Management Excellence by Art Petty

About Art Petty

Art Petty is a coach, speaker and workshop presenter focusing on helping professionals and organizations learn to survive and thrive in an era of change. When he is not speaking, Art serves senior executives, business owners and high potential professionals as a coach and strategy advisor. Additionally, Art’s books are widely used in leadership development programs. To learn more or discuss a challenge, contact Art.

Art of Managing—Always Be Building

Of the eight valuable leadership lessons shared in the HBR article, "Ferguson's Forumla" (subscription or $), number 2, “Dare to Rebuild Your Team” is critically important and often bypassed in the workplace due to friction, tentativeness on the part of managers and HR groups and lack of vision and courage on the part of managers. Sadly, in too many cases, we allow a number of challenging but controllable impediments to get in our way of doing the right thing. These 4 are...

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:27:39-05:00September 11th, 2013|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—It’s Time to Put More Context in Your Conversations

Looking for a boost in morale and team or departmental performance? Try spending some time helping your colleagues connect their work efforts and goals to the bigger picture of your firm’s strategy. Here are 6 practices that effective leaders apply in pursuit of creating clear context for individual and team challenges:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:27:40-05:00September 9th, 2013|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Art of Managing—You Can’t Scale Bad People

There’s no formula, no strategy, no approach to building a great business that allows you to short circuit the need for great people. If you're facing this issue, here are a few thoughts to help you get this equation for success right:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:27:42-05:00August 28th, 2013|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

New Leader Tuesday—Effective Leaders Earn Their Stripes Every Day

Leading is a privilege and you serve at the discretion of the people on your team. While you might have hire, promote or fire authority, the people around you make the choice to go through the motions or invest their hearts and minds in pursuit of their tasks.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:27:43-05:00August 27th, 2013|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Leadership Caffeine™—Surviving and Thriving Under Uncertainty

There are few attributes more valuable to leaders than the ability to stare uncertainty in the face and recognize it as a golden opportunity to shape and form the situation to their own and to their firm’s advantage. Here are 5 ideas to help you flip fear and uncertainty in the workplace upside down:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:27:44-05:00August 25th, 2013|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

New Leader Tuesday—Focus on the Fundamentals

The fundamentals of leadership never go out of style. Whether you are a first-time leader, an experienced professional taking over a new team or a senior leader who can use a little leadership pick-me-up, focusing on these five fundamentals will serve you and your teams well:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:27:45-05:00August 20th, 2013|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Art of Managing—Balancing the Need for Speed AND Performance

With few exceptions that I’ve encountered, most senior leaders lose sleep over how fast their organizations and employees are moving. Their minds and mantras are: faster to change, faster to improve, faster to add new capabilities, faster to explore and develop competence in new markets and with new customer groups. However, at the same time senior leaders are looking for ways for their firms and teams to move faster, most employee groups and their managers are bogged down slogging through the reality of getting stuff done. Here are 3 ideas to help you and your team strengthen the balance between the need for speed and the need for performance:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:27:46-05:00August 18th, 2013|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Coping When a Valued Protégé Says Goodbye

Part of growing up as a leader involves letting the people you’ve supported and coached, sometimes from day one of their careers, move on to new opportunities inside and outside the organization. Here are 5 thoughts to help you keep things in context when faced with losing a valued team member:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:27:47-05:00July 28th, 2013|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|2 Comments

It’s Your Career—4 Key Self Development Questions

In the course of my work coaching, managing and hiring, I encounter far too many individuals who have nothing to point to when it comes to skills development and continuing education. How you answer these 4 questions speaks volumes about you as a professional:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:27:48-05:00July 26th, 2013|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|2 Comments

Art of Managing—Is Your Success Placing You on a Glide Path to Oblivion?

Good to great near-term numbers have lured many a management team into focusing on the near-term at the expense of their firm's long-term health. Assuming that prior and current success will continue uninterrupted is a sure-fire way to place your company on a glide path to oblivion.While it's counter-intuitive to think that good results are potentially unhealthy, consider using these 6 questions with your management team to jump-start a discussion about your organization's future health:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:27:49-05:00July 25th, 2013|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

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