by Art Petty | Jun 12, 2013 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, Leadership, Management Innovation
From long experience and ample client CEO and Board input, the typical state of a management team looks less like a team and more like a group of functional experts who occasionally gather to talk uncomfortably (and shallowly) about the hard issues confronting their...
by Art Petty | May 28, 2013 | Leadership
At some point it will happen. You’ll be invited to your first executive or board meeting to provide an update on your team’s initiatives and it’s important for you to be prepared to seize this golden reputation building opportunity. While you are comfortable that your...
by Art Petty | May 21, 2013 | Leadership
“Long before empowerment was written into the popular vocabulary, exemplary leaders understood how important it was that that their constituents felt strong, capable and efficacious.” Kouzes & Posner, The Leadership Challenge Strengthen others. It’s the advice no...
by Art Petty | May 20, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
If the flak is heavy, you’re near the target. (No flak, no target) –Eric Lieberman and Paul Byrne “Lessons from the Memphis Belle” A retired senior executive offered to me that the biggest accomplishments of his teams during his career were preceded by the loudest and...
by Art Petty | May 13, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Strategy
Few concepts in business generate more consternation for managers operating below the C-level, than strategy. Poll your team members or peers, and I’m confident that in most organizations, at least one (or more) of the themes will emerge: We don’t have a strategy. The...
by Art Petty | May 7, 2013 | Leadership
Experience is clearly the best teacher when it comes to learning to lead. However, there are a few items that I wish someone would have pointed out before I tripped all over myself earlier in my career. Forewarned is forearmed! At Least 10 Things I Discovered the Hard...
