by Art Petty | Oct 4, 2011 | Leadership Caffeine Podcast
Creativity is at a premium in our world, and subjecting our teams and audiences to mind and rear-numbing marches through an endless stream of slides is the best way I know to stifle creativity. There’s got to be a better way! Val Gee and Sarah Gee in their...
by Art Petty | Sep 25, 2011 | Leadership Caffeine Podcast
It’s been awhile since we’ve heard much about impending shortages of talent. Seemingly in a galaxy far, far away, the concerns over the Baby Boomers exiting stage right in huge numbers were fodder for a nearly endless string of articles suggesting that we...
by Art Petty | Sep 14, 2011 | Leadership Caffeine Podcast
The most difficult job in the professional life of any leader may very well be that first role…when he or she moves from individual contributor to suddenly being responsible for the outcomes of others. For those of you who lived through it, you know that the...
by Art Petty | Sep 8, 2011 | Leadership Caffeine Podcast
Navigating the move from one executive level to the next is both exciting and daunting. Depending upon your career stage, successfully executing on your new responsibilities might require drawing upon a significantly different set of skills than those demanded in...
by Art Petty | Aug 31, 2011 | Leadership Caffeine Podcast
For managers and executives, customer service is either a golden opportunity or, as some seem to treat it…a cost center. However, perhaps one of the outcomes of this great recession and the on-going economic malaise…is that many organizations and managers are waking...
by Art Petty | Aug 24, 2011 | Leadership Caffeine Podcast
The lure of “partnering” with others is strong in our society, particularly as more and more high quality professionals pursue their own businesses outside of the not-so-cozy confines of corporate walls. Much like marriage, there are some remarkable...
