by Art Petty | Aug 5, 2011 | Leadership, Leading Change
The July/August issue of HBR focuses on the issues around building collaboration into the workplace. It’s required reading for all of us. If you’ve spent any amount of time inside the walls of an organization, you understand the promise and perils of...
by Art Petty | Aug 1, 2011 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Newsflash: The Center for Leadership Diseases (CLD) has just announced an addition to their growing list of maladies and afflictions running rampant through the leadership and customer service communities. Respect Deficit Disorder (RDD) has officially been added to a...
by Art Petty | Jul 25, 2011 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Decisions propel people, teams and organizations forward. Get more right than wrong…especially the big ones, and the only thing standing in the way of success is the critical issue of execution. And of course, most decisions start with a discussion. One of your...
by Art Petty | Jul 24, 2011 | Leadership
The sad ending to the life of 27 year-old and talented but visibly troubled singer, Amy Winehouse, offers a sobering reminder of the horrible waste of undeveloped talent. Winehouse’s music now belongs to the ages. While perhaps she was most well known for her...
by Art Petty | Jul 18, 2011 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Just about all of us have had that experience where we’ve heard our voice on an audio recording or viewed ourselves on a video recording. “Aack, who is that?” or, “Do I really look/sound like that?” are frequent reactions. Yes, you do. The stranger on the recording or...
by Art Petty | Jul 15, 2011 | Career, Leadership
Note from Art: great friend and valued former colleague, Chris Colbert, graciously supplied this wonderful post following his recent experience with his sons and Scout troop at Sea Base. Chris’s brief bio is included at the end of the post. Leadership Lessons...
