by Art Petty | May 7, 2014 | Career, Just One Thing, Leadership
The “Just One Thing” Series at Management Excellence is intended to provoke ideas and actions around topics relevant to our success and professional growth. Use them in good health and great performance! — If your typical day resembles the one that...
by Art Petty | Apr 30, 2014 | Career, Decision-Making, Just One Thing
The “Just One Thing” Series at Management Excellence is intended to provoke ideas and actions around topics relevant to our success and professional growth. Use them in good health and great performance! — There’s an interesting article in the May,...
by Art Petty | Apr 1, 2014 | Just One Thing, Leadership, Project Management
The “Just One Thing” Series at Management Excellence is intended to provoke ideas and actions around individually important topics. Use them in good health and great performance! — Increasingly, the work of organizations is completed in the form of...
by Art Petty | Nov 21, 2013 | Just One Thing, Leadership
As managers, we tend to tolerate certain employees who straddle that toxic boundary, in large part, because we can rationalize their aberrant behaviors in the context of what they do well. We write off destructive behaviors that live at the bleeding edge of the values...
by Art Petty | Oct 9, 2013 | Career, Just One Thing, Leadership
I was struck by the simplicity and power of an observation from one of the (early career) participants in a recent leadership program of mine. After studying different styles and approaches and examples of leaders, he indicated that he was walking away from the...
by Art Petty | Jul 18, 2013 | Career, Just One Thing
I confess to having not used the descriptor “smarty pants” since sometime before I turned 11, but I was reminded of it the other day in a Wall Street Journal article on the potential nomination of economist, Larry Summers, to the Chairmanship of the Federal Reserve....
