by Art Petty | Jan 11, 2010 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Project Management
All teams and groups have a rhythm and natural energy for their tasks that ebb and flow based on a variety of factors, including personal, environmental and seasonal to name a few. As a leader, you should be aware of these cycles that are characterized by either...
by Art Petty | Jan 4, 2010 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Strategy
Far too many leaders that I encounter lack awareness of the broader forces swirling around their firms, their customers and those shape-shifting clusters that we describe as industries. Given the hurricane like market and societal forces buffeting our globe today, a...
by Art Petty | Dec 21, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I’m as guilty as the next person of finding the impending resetting of the calendar a cathartic cleansing, where the failures of the past year are suddenly washed away and replaced by the empty and unknown space filled with promise and time stretching out in front of...
by Art Petty | Dec 14, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Note from Art: Don’t miss out on the opportunity to join the Management Excellence e-newsletter list and win a book. The promotion runs through Wednesday, 12/16. See the post for more details. It’s good to be a good leader, so don’t misconstrue the message in...
by Art Petty | Dec 7, 2009 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Even the most dedicated and experienced of leaders will admit that there are more than a few days when they wonder whether it might not be a lot less stressful to hang up their leadership cleats in favor of an individual contributor role. Like marriage, not every day...
by Art Petty | Nov 29, 2009 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation, Strategy
Participate in or monitor enough management team conversations and you will invariably conclude that it’s darned hard for these teams to spend quality time discussing external issues. The gravitational pull of internal “stuff” is overwhelming and resists all attempts...
