by Art Petty | Sep 2, 2010 | Career, Leadership
I love this quote from Peter Drucker: “We spend a lot of time teaching our leaders what to do. We don’t spend enough time teaching them what to stop.” Here’s my small contribution on what to “stop doing” immediately. Please add your suggestions to the list. My Start...
by Art Petty | Aug 31, 2010 | Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Strategy
Every year, a number of the large consulting firms publish surveys outlining the issues that keep global corporate leaders awake at night. Inevitably, the topic turns to strategy and more specifically to the headaches and challenges of executing strategy. For those of...
by Art Petty | Aug 30, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Product Management, Project Management
Note from Art: no ethics or morals were harmed in the making of this post. Power and influence are not dirty words. Both are components of every organization’s environment and both must be carefully cultivated to succeed as a formal or informal leader. Power and...
by Art Petty | Aug 25, 2010 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leading Change
More observations on business and culture from an unofficial leadership anthropologist. The lot of professionals inside many organizations can easily be characterized by a series of endless status meetings, hurried hallway conversations and messages quickly dispatched...
by Art Petty | Aug 23, 2010 | Career, Leadership
Overheard: “If I don’t stay on top of my people, nothing gets done.” If lousy leadership were a crime, the owner of the quote above might just merit a short stretch of quality alone-time to reflect on the implications of his statement. There are so many things truly...
by Art Petty | Aug 19, 2010 | Leadership, Leading Change
We invest a great deal of time talking and writing and preaching about change. We discuss resistance to change, fear of change, our own need for personal change and the challenges that organizations face when it comes to embracing change. We’re not very good at...
