by Art Petty | Jan 26, 2016 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Strategy
In my considerable time working for and around large firms, I’ve been on the receiving end of exactly one good, constructive business review with a team from corporate. That makes the score approximately 119 lousy experiences to 1 that was worth a damn. I’ll rail at...
by Art Petty | Nov 17, 2015 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Strategy
“Not miscalculation, bad strategy is the active avoidance of the hard work of crafting a good strategy.” Richard Rumelt—Good Strategy/Bad Strategy Consider: “Our strategy is to be more profitable than our competitors.” “Our strategy is to grow from 10,000 to 100,000...
by Art Petty | Nov 4, 2015 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
Most businesses and most management teams flail and fail when it comes to the work of strategy. In today’s world, where the long-cycle strategy process has been replaced by short-bursts of experimentation and iteration, it’s essential to reduce the fail...
by Art Petty | Oct 27, 2015 | High Performance Management Teams, Strategy
One of the worst uses of the term, “team,” is in relationship to the group of executives who report to the CEO. For many of the firms I work with ($20 million to $200 million in annual revenues), there’s little beyond the “report to” issue that binds these groups...
by Art Petty | Sep 17, 2015 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Strategy
The Art of Managing series is dedicated to exploring the critical issues we face in guiding our firms and teams to success in today’s volatile world. — Strategy processes mostly disappoint. That’s too bad, because there are few activities more essential to...
by Art Petty | Aug 16, 2015 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The Leadership Caffeine™ series is intended to make you think and act. — A few of the most contentious (and job threatening) moments in my career have come when I’ve gone to the mat on dealing with toxic employees. For a number of reasons…none of which are worth...
