by Art Petty | Aug 30, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Self-confidence is rocket fuel for leaders. Used carefully and ignited under the proper conditions, it propels you and those around you to remarkable heights. However, beware the narrow tolerance ranges of your own self-confidence. Too little and you act and are...
by Art Petty | Aug 23, 2009 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
One of the interesting observations of writing regularly about developing and reinforcing great leadership habits is that the readership tends to be the group that already gets it. Trust me, the lousy leaders that haunt our corporate hallways are not spending much...
by Art Petty | Aug 17, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Imagine a corporate world where those being led had a strong vote on whether their leaders lived to lead or were shown the door. This happened recently at the newly combined Fiat-Chrysler, and the question that was asked of low and mid level staffers was: “What do you...
by Art Petty | Aug 8, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
It’s time to take some chances on the people around you. Too many leaders constrain and contain, but the very best leaders provide opportunities for their team members to achieve things that these individuals might never have believed they were capable of achieving....
by Art Petty | Aug 3, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Author, Steven Pressfield does a masterful job in The War of Art, defining and then describing how to combat Resistance, a powerful and vexing force of human nature that we might most often label as procrastination. This book should be mandatory once a year reading...
by Art Petty | Jul 26, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Note from Art: this one’s with a little help from my friends. I’ve been working a great deal with first-time leaders recently (my favorite groups!) and I posted a tweet to the extremely talented group of great people that I follow on Twitter asking what they wish...
