by Art Petty | Dec 30, 2018 | Career, Challenging Conversations, First Time Manager Series, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Strategy
For a change in the new year, skip the long list of resolutions save one—commit to engaging in a bit of open, positive rebellion at work or in your career. Navigated properly, you’ll be surprised how rebelling by changing your thinking and approach(es) might just...
by Art Petty | Aug 13, 2018 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Strategy
In a world where standing still is akin to moving backward at the speed of change, I often encounter management teams operating in a state of denial about the world unfolding in front of them. They get caught up in supporting dated strategies while preoccupying on the...
by Art Petty | Jun 19, 2018 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership
The road to a difficult decision is paved with one or more challenging conversations. The two—difficult decisions and challenging conversations—are inextricably linked. Effective leaders and high performing teams work hard to develop skills and conventions for...
by Art Petty | Apr 15, 2018 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Management Innovation, Strategy
You’ll rarely meet a CEO or top executive suggesting, “What we need to do is slow down.” This counter-intuitive guidance in a world seemingly spinning faster-and-faster flies in the face of conventional thinking and practice, yet in matters of strategy, slowing down...
by Art Petty | Apr 1, 2018 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation
It’s commonplace in business (and life) to face seemingly opposed, unsatisfactory choices. In many situations, the best answer is to do neither. Instead, effective leaders draw upon what Roger Martin in his classic book, The Opposable Mind, describes as integrative...
by Art Petty | Jan 28, 2018 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I tripped across a simple diagram depicting a continuous loop of learn, adapt, and influence, in a book on negotiation by Michael Wheeler of Harvard Business School. While his emphasis was on describing the continually shifting environment in any negotiation, this...
