by Art Petty | Apr 9, 2017 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership
I’ve managed across cultures for much of my career. I’ve worked with individuals and teams from all around the globe. We’ve been successful. I have people I’m honored to call friends on several continents. For my work as an executive, I intuitively gravitated to...
by Art Petty | Apr 7, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
We’re taught from an early age in school what we need to do to earn the “A.” Unfortunately, the real world isn’t that structured, predictable, or kind. Learning to tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty in business is essential for survival....
by Art Petty | Mar 13, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership
Welcome to my new video series where the emphasis is on sharing ideas to help you solve problems and strengthen performance at work. For our kick-off video, I share an approach on setting the stage for a great day that I learned from the team I was leading through a...
by Art Petty | Oct 19, 2016 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, Leadership
Whether we are describing the workplace or the classroom setting, too often, our management approaches stifle independent thinking. We create measures and scorecards and performance evaluations that promote a narrow set of behaviors. What gets measured gets...
by Art Petty | Oct 16, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leading Change
A great mentor of mine was right when it came to hiring talent: “You have to break the eggs to make an omelet.” When hiring senior managers and people for critical leadership roles, I hire for character and potential. Damn the competency model. Sorry H.R....
by Art Petty | Sep 24, 2016 | Art of Managing, Career
Nearly 100 percent of the time my coaching and strategy consulting assignments bump up against the relationship issue as an obstacle. Not my relationship with the client, but rather somewhere in the client environment, an important relationship that is so...
