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.

The Inner Game of Leading and Your New Year’s Resolutions

In a world characterized by change, uncertainty and overload, the context for effective leadership is dramatically different today than a few mere decades ago. Leaders must adapt and importantly, today's leaders must provide that extra layer of support needed by team members to allow them to work at their best amidst the noise. Annual resolutions aren't enough. Here are 4 ideas to help you refresh and reset on your leadership role every day:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:33-05:00December 30th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Aligning Your Efforts to Results Ratio

If you’ve ever worked incredibly hard only to have something run off the rails or just not generate the results you were after, you understand what an imbalance in the Efforts-to-Results ratio feels like. Here are some thoughts on aligning this equation in your favor:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:34-05:00December 21st, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Just One Thing—Captain Obvious and The Fresh Start Effect

I’m not certain we needed a research study to prove that we naturally appreciate fresh-starts, nonetheless, now we have one...

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:35-05:00December 11th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Yahoo Misfires—Don’t Let this Happen to Your Firm

Yahoo—a name left over from the boom and bust period of the dot.com world—has somehow managed to limp along in a world where many struggle to understand its value proposition. According to a recent article in Forbes, the exodus of talent and the frustration found in much of the remaining workforce has much to do with the lack of clarity around strategy and direction.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:36-05:00December 9th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Art of Managing—Avoid Strategy Malpractice with a Proper Diagnosis

If you’ve ever dealt with a complex medical issue, you understand how difficult it sometimes is to identify the real problem. Yet, pinpointing this problem is essential to developing the best possible treatment regimen. It can be a matter of life or death. The same holds true in business, where it's essential to put time and efforts into developing an effective diagnosis of your firm's situation:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:37-05:00December 8th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—It’s Time to Become Better Informed Leadership Consumers

There’s a lot of happy talk in books, on blogs and in articles about leaders and leading. Much of the writing and commentary on leadership and leading reads like a Made-for-TV script with much of the gory and dirty content left out and the outcome predictable—the good guys always win. It's disconnected from reality. What's needed is a revolution in how we as consumers of leadership evaluate and select our leaders.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:38-05:00December 6th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|4 Comments

Just One Thing—Dream Big and Then Fight Like Heck

Our goals and big dreams often are rudely shoved out of the way in favor of the urgent issues of life as well as those activities we deem more easily achievable. Some are abandoned due to the mirage of size and complexity. “It’s too big for me to accomplish.” Or, “I’m not sure how I would even get started.” We make excuses for ourselves, mostly, because we don’t know how to fight what author Steven Pressfield calls resistance.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:40-05:00December 4th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

The Next Act—Saying “Goodbye” to Corporate Life

If you’ve decided it’s time for something new in your professional life, and if that something new goes beyond a simple job change to a vocation change, it pays to be prepared. You’ll be balancing simultaneous equations that include: reinventing yourself and your skills; starting up and building a client base or book of business, and navigating an emotional roller coaster with some high-highs, step drops and the occasional corkscrew that will find you momentarily upside down and disoriented.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:41-05:00December 2nd, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Interview with Laura Macleod of From the Inside Out Project

Welcome back to the Leadership Caffeine Podcast series! While the series took a hiatus for an extended period during my last venture, the idea of bringing fresh voices to the important topics of management and leadership is an unyielding objective of mine here at the Management Excellence blog. I’m excited to return to the series and kick-off with Laura MacLeod, founder and proprietor of From the Inside Out Project, a firm dedicated to smoothing communications and relations between hourly employees and management.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:42-05:00December 1st, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Coming Attractions at the Management Excellence Blog

There's a lot of new and a fair amount of new and improved coming soon at the Management Excellence blog. From the return of the Leadership Caffeine podcast to the new and improved Leadership Caffeine e-News, the Holiday Book List and the 2016 Coaching Calls Series, I'm excited to support your professional development efforts with all of these vehicles!

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:43-05:00November 30th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

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