by Art Petty | Jul 20, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leading Change
The July issue of The Management Excellence e-Newsletter is out, with subscriber-only content. The current issue includes content on: Improving Ideation & Creativity with Your Team Surviving and Thriving at the Dreaded Annual Strategy Off-Site Ideas for...
by Art Petty | Jul 15, 2010 | Career
Note from Art: My work brings me in contact with a great number of mid-career professionals beginning to ask hard questions about their professional lives. Consider these philosophical thoughts as encouragement on your journey to finding that lost spark of excitement...
by Art Petty | Jul 11, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I regularly use the label “Senior Contributor” (SC) to reference a state of management maturity that tends to exist somewhere between upper mid-level management or senior knowledge worker and the executive layer. While the hierarchical comparison may be imperfect,...
by Art Petty | Jul 6, 2010 | Career
In his classic article, “Managing Oneself,” (HBR, 1999), the late, great management thinker, Peter Drucker, offered the following: “We live in an age of unprecedented opportunity: if you’ve got ambition, drive and smarts, you can rise to the...
by Art Petty | Jul 6, 2010 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Someone asked me the other day, whether there was one quality above all others that stuck out as essential for success as a leader? Without hesitating, I responded, “intestinal fortitude.” And while the question is not dissimilar to one of those impossible to answer...
by Art Petty | Jun 28, 2010 | Career, Leadership Caffeine
Few phrases are capable of sending shivers down a person’s spine, like, “Bob or Mary, why don’t you present your ideas at our next meeting.” Except perhaps, “Bob or Mary,” why don’t you present your ideas at our next Board of Directors meeting. For some people, this...
