by Art Petty | May 23, 2012 | Career, Product Management
Someone asked me about the importance of product management in my prior tech businesses. My answer was blunt. Great product managers see beyond customer requirements to the often unspoken needs, and they move organizational mountains to fill those needs. If you’ve...
by Art Petty | May 22, 2012 | Career, Leadership
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by Art Petty | May 14, 2012 | Career, Just One Thing
The “Just One Thing” Series: Professional Improvement is Best Enjoyed in Small, Digestible Bite-Sized Pieces-One Idea at a Time. Most of us are creatures of habit. Same route to work…same people on the train and even our work has a familiar cycle…daily...
by Art Petty | May 3, 2012 | Career
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by Art Petty | Apr 30, 2012 | Career
Some people take pride in being deaf and blind to organizational politics. A good friend and now out-of-work colleague confesses that he didn’t see his termination coming. He offered: “I didn’t want to play the games.” He now knows that is approach was...
by Art Petty | Apr 24, 2012 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Yesterday, a valued colleague described a fascinating professional interaction and used the phrase, “listening with intent.” While I imagine this is something on the level of “seek first to understand,” the phrasing works for me. It connotes a significant and deep...
