by Art Petty | Apr 5, 2019 | Just One Thing, Leadership, Leadership Power-Ups
Every semester as part of a kick-off for the leadership module in an online management course I ask participants two simple questions: Who’s your leadership role model? How did they affect you? And, every semester I’m awestruck by the stories and humbled to be...
by Art Petty | Mar 13, 2019 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
Good leaders care about creating great outcomes. Great leaders care about how they affect people. Long after everyone forgets the big deals and the numbers, they’ll remember how they were affected by you. Make sure your impact ripples positively through time....
by Art Petty | Feb 24, 2019 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership Power-Ups, Management Innovation, The Leadership Opportunity
Once you’ve reached the level of managing managers on your team, your professional development focus shifts considerably. Historically, your emphasis was on supporting the performance and growth of contributors. That’s good, meaningful work, but fundamentally...
by Art Petty | Jan 15, 2019 | Career Reinvention, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
The term, attitude gets a bad rap most of the time. We associate attitude with words such as bad, uncooperative, truculent, antagonistic. When was the last time you heard someone say, “That person has an attitude,” and you interpreted it as a compliment? Attitude...
by Art Petty | Jan 11, 2019 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
Alchemy, according to Malouin in the Encyclopedia of Diderot, is the chemistry of the subtlest kind which allows one to observe extraordinary chemical operations at a more rapid pace—ones that require a long time for nature to produce. Newsflash, there are no...
by Art Petty | Jan 1, 2019 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
The Promise of the New Year: I’m as guilty as the next person of finding the annual 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...
