by Art Petty | May 3, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Fresh from a weekend of rediscovering the lawn and gardening muscles that clearly took the winter off, I found myself happy that I was able to quickly access freshly sharpened, well-oiled tools. As any good tradesman or craftsman (or weekend gardener) will tell you,...
by Art Petty | May 2, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leading Change
One of the best leadership public services you will find is Dan McCarthy’s hard work to produce the monthly Leadership Development Carnivals. Dan scours the world far and wide for compelling content designed to inspire, energize and challenge you to step up your...
by Art Petty | Apr 26, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Consider these frequently overheard refrains from two different leaders: Leader 1: “That’s great! Congratulations! How do we do more of that?” Leader 2: “That’s broken and we need to fix it right away.” We have all met both of these characters. One sees opportunity...
by Art Petty | Apr 23, 2010 | Career, Leadership
A few weeks ago, I published a post on “Jumpstart Your Marketing Reading to Restart Your Brain.” The post was ostensibly in response to my frustration over what I view as out-of-of-tune and out-of-touch textbooks that are used in college marketing courses. Ditto on...
by Art Petty | Apr 21, 2010 | Leadership, Management Innovation
Note from Art: This post is intended to push you in the direction of thinking about “what if?” and “why not?” and “how?” If you’re not thinking about possibilities and new approaches, you’re not really thinking. Anyone...
by Art Petty | Apr 12, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Product Management, Project Management
While the phrase is most commonly referenced as attitude adjustment, I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that one of the abilities that leaders must develop to be effective is the ability to adjust their altitudes. Good leaders learn to scale institutional and...
