by Art Petty | Apr 29, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
If aliens were to secretly visit our planet to observe our advanced leadership and management techniques, they might reasonably conclude that the “right to talk” in most situations, was reserved for the individual in charge. Play leadership anthropologist in your own...
by Art Petty | Apr 14, 2013 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
There’s a class of professionals in the world one of my former bosses labeled as “70-Percenters.” They’re the people who are great at making noise, and even getting things started, but they don’t know how to close. They’re not finishers. Are you a Finisher or a...
by Art Petty | Mar 31, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Speed kills. Except when it comes to the development of your emerging leaders. In my experience, many senior managers move too slowly to expose their developing leaders to new and more challenging situations. This is a mistake that artificially inhibits professional...
by Art Petty | Mar 18, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Project Management
“This would be easy if it weren’t for the people.” -Project Manager I’ve been invited to deliver a talk to a group of project management professionals ostensibly around the issue of dealing with difficult people on project teams. The challenge with this topic is...
by Art Petty | Mar 3, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
“Ideas are easy; doing stuff is hard.” –Seth Godin and “Innovation and creativity are emergent, not causal properties of teamwork.” –Jim Highsmith. Ideas in the workplace that are voiced but never vetted or pursued are the corporate equivalent of those brilliant...
by Art Petty | Feb 24, 2013 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
One of the oddities of organizational life is the fairly frequent and sudden promotion of individuals from competent individual contributor to someone responsible for the work of others…supervisor or manager, without any visible sign of mentoring or support for the...
