by Art Petty | Oct 8, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
I have an allergic reaction to the gravitational pull of the status quo when it masquerades as conventional wisdom. Too often, leaders and managers reduce complex and emerging situations to an algorithm developed for another time and set of variables. It’s a...
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 | 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 | Jun 26, 2017 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Imagine assembling a team of all-star professionals boasting great pedigrees of success to tackle a big, exciting expedition, and seeing them fall flat with sub-par performance. The disappointment is palpable, and if you’re the manager who assembled this team, the...
by Art Petty | Jun 10, 2017 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, First Time Manager Series
New(er) managers often step all over this issue of fixing people. I know I did. Twice. Both situations ended in disasters. The lesson: it’s never your job to fix a difficult employee. It turns out that regardless of your great intentions, powers of moral...
by Art Petty | Jun 2, 2017 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, Leadership
Years ago, I worked for two executives at the same time. They could not have been more different, especially when it came to the pace of decision-making. One ran sales. The other ran marketing, support and product management. They didn’t like each other. At all. It...
