by Art Petty | Apr 3, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
If you live to be 75 years old, that’s 2.37 Gigaseconds. A relative blink of an eye. We all choose to invest our unknown allotment of time in different ways. Some strive for financial resources and others for significance. Some focus on creating and building. Others...
by Art Petty | Mar 24, 2017 | Career, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
Imagine taking on the simultaneous equation of solving for strengthening your firm’s performance, while growing as a leader and learning to be at your best all of the time. Admittedly, those are lofty ambitions on their own, and akin to climbing Everest without...
by Art Petty | Mar 20, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
With the milder weather here in the Midwest, I took the occasion to visit our north woods residence a full month earlier than normal this past weekend. The first visit of the season is always one filled with hope and excitement for the coming months and just a bit of...
by Art Petty | Feb 26, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
One of the flaws of much of the literature and training on leadership, team development, and organizational change, is the search for the big fix. Frameworks, models and broad, sweeping programs are alluring, yet prove unwieldy in their translation from the page or...
by Art Petty | Feb 12, 2017 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Our work lives are punctuated by awkward moments thrust upon us at various points in time. Any first day at a new job. Every last day at an old job. The day you learn your boss was fired. You liked this boss. Meeting your new boss at the firm buying your company. The...
by Art Petty | Feb 7, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
If the times make the leader, these times place a premium on our ability to think and do differently. I constantly look for examples of leaders diverging from the conventional thinking in their firms. They challenge the “way” things are supposed to happen. They are...
