by Art Petty | Jun 20, 2011 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Overheard: “I don’t have the stomach for the political games around here.” 4 Universal Rules of Organizational Politics: 1. You ignore organizational politics at your own peril. 2. You engage in the politics of your organization at your own peril. 3. All organizations...
by Art Petty | Jun 15, 2011 | Decision-Making, Leadership
If you like a good leadership challenge, take a few moments and click over to Dan McCarthy’s Great Leadership blog and check out the first in a new monthly program: The Leadership Development Roundtable Challenge. This new program, conceived by Dan and wildly...
by Art Petty | Jun 14, 2011 | Leadership
I was promoted to my first supervisory job because the last guy didn’t show up that day. The manager said, “You’re in charge here. Don’t muck it up.” (The word he used wasn’t “muck”) Yeah, I know that no one was there to show you the ropes when you were drafted into...
by Art Petty | Jun 13, 2011 | Career, Leadership
I had just been hired on in a senior strategic marketing role in an industry new to me, and job one was acclimating to the market and industry dynamics and trying to understand what a customer looked like in this world. After the obligatory round of meetings with...
by Art Petty | Jun 9, 2011 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership
One bad hire can poison the workplace pond, tarnish your reputation and impact your team’s/firm’s ability to execute. Do this a few times and your mistakes will likely knock you out of the hiring game and potentially into the cozy confines of today’s crowded...
by Art Petty | Jun 8, 2011 | Leadership, Strategy
OK, truth-in-advertising time. The meeting isn’t the problem. It’s typically the thinking behind the meeting that is often horribly wrong. From the symbolism of the event to the cost to the fact that strategic thinking time is reduced to a once or twice a year event,...
