by Art Petty | Aug 1, 2023 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation
How do we help our new managers cross the chasm from contributor to manager successfully? One of the vexing career challenges any individual encounters is the shift from contributor to manager. There’s little about succeeding as a contributor that translates to...
by Art Petty | Jul 31, 2023 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Don’t let them fly without a license! In the world of unnatural career acts, shifting from contributor to manager is at the top of the difficulty list. Imagine moving from your current day job as a contributor to one where you are now flying a passenger jet with...
by Art Petty | Jul 25, 2023 | Art of Managing, Career, Just One Thing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups, Self-Development, Think Differently
It’s a Crisis When My Idea Machine Grinds to a Halt Like many of you, ideas are my stock in trade. Whether writing the next article, designing a new workshop or course, providing strategy advisory services for a client, or supporting my coaching clients, I have...
by Art Petty | Jul 21, 2023 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Strategy, The Leadership Opportunity, Think Differently
It’s the perfect time in our world to vanquish the long-perpetuated and unproductive myth that leaders are somehow meaningfully different from managers. This distinction—perpetuated mainly by consultants and academics puts the practice of leadership on a...
by Art Petty | Jul 10, 2023 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Think Differently
Leadership Indecency is an admittedly awkward, uncommon phrase. I like it. It’s the perfect phrase to describe the many amoral examples and practices of leadership we encounter in our organizations and institutions. Sadly, these practices are curable if WE stop...
by Art Petty | Jun 25, 2023 | Art of Managing, Just One Thing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Self-Development, Think Differently
Sorry, S.M.A.R.T. Goals, But Your Day is Over OK, a confession: I wanted to title this article something like “Why Your S.M.A.R.T. Goals are Dumb, but my topic is a bit more expansive than just my disdain for that all-too-present and limiting corporate approach...
