by Art Petty | Jun 25, 2010 | Career, Leadership
With a father and sons weekend in the offing, I’ll keep the shorts short (bad combination of words!) and offer you encouragement to get out and enjoy the all too fast-moving weekends of summer. Here in the Midwest, we feel good about cracking 2-digits on the number...
by Art Petty | Jun 21, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
If you’ve ever had the good fortune to watch a skilled carpenter or mechanic or any proficient trade-person, one of the first things that you will notice is the care that they take in selecting the right tool for the task at hand. As someone who practices the trades...
by Art Petty | Jun 18, 2010 | Career, Strategy
Resources, great reads and sound bites for your summer weekends Blink and the week is gone. I’m still not clear how Friday happened so quickly again, but here we are, and here I am with a few suggestions for your weekend professional development time. Values: These...
by Art Petty | Jun 16, 2010 | Career
There are few skills that will take you further and help you more than developing your speaking skills. Your writing skills are a close second. It’s time to confront your fear of speaking and make this critical skill a valuable part of who you are as a...
by Art Petty | Jun 1, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Something funny happens as we age and gain experience. Many of us expect the world to continue conforming to our view of things, which of course, it rarely does. For those that stubbornly stick to the perspective that I’m right and everyone else is wrong, the world...
by Art Petty | May 28, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Project Management
It’s increasingly likely that you will spend a good deal of your professional time working on temporary teams. It’s also likely that you will experience a fair amount of frustration and even team failure along the way. Most organizations have yet to meet a problem...
