by Art Petty | Jul 21, 2010 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Project Management
I’m leery of happy teams. Don’t get me wrong. I like positive situations and working with happy people, however, in my experience, the happy teams are the ones that produce mediocre results or, they don’t produce at all. Give me a group of people that show up to do...
by Art Petty | Jul 20, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leading Change
The July issue of The Management Excellence e-Newsletter is out, with subscriber-only content. The current issue includes content on: Improving Ideation & Creativity with Your Team Surviving and Thriving at the Dreaded Annual Strategy Off-Site Ideas for...
by Art Petty | Jul 19, 2010 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The world of work has increasingly become the world of teams and group activities, and to quote Richard Hackman, author of, Leading Teams-Setting the Stage for Great Performance, “I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will...
by Art Petty | Jul 18, 2010 | Leadership, Uncategorized
Note: the Seven Key Questions for Ambitious, Aspiring Leaders, are presented in the book, Practical Lessons in Leadership by Art Petty and Rich Petro. I’ll explore each question here at Building Better Leaders through individual “Leadership Tip of the...
by Art Petty | Jul 11, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I regularly use the label “Senior Contributor” (SC) to reference a state of management maturity that tends to exist somewhere between upper mid-level management or senior knowledge worker and the executive layer. While the hierarchical comparison may be imperfect,...
by Art Petty | Jul 8, 2010 | Leadership, Uncategorized
Note: the Seven Key Questions for Ambitious, Aspiring Leaders, are presented in the book, Practical Lessons in Leadership by Art Petty and Rich Petro. I’ll explore each question here at Building Better Leaders through individual “Leadership Tip of the...
