by Art Petty | Jun 29, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The best leaders in my opinion are guided by a strong sense of duty and responsibility. The individuals that succeed in motivating, inspiring and even changing the lives and careers of others operate with an underlying philosophical foundation that they draw upon to...
by Art Petty | Jun 25, 2009 | Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation
Many leaders are lousy collaborators. It doesn’t seem to matter that they spend a great deal of time encouraging, coaching and facilitating collaboration between their team members and across functional boundaries. When it comes time for Leader A to work with Leader B...
by Art Petty | Jun 23, 2009 | Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
You learn a great deal about an organization’s current state, near-term prospects and about the health and effectiveness of a firm’s leaders by looking for and listening to the quality of the conversations in the working environment. Visit and spend time with the...
by Art Petty | Jun 22, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Note from Art: I read Mark Raymo’s inspirational e-Newsletter, Light4theWeek, every Monday morning and enjoy it so much that I asked him if I could share it with my blog readers. Mark agreed and what follows below is one of my favorite shorts in his great and...
by Art Petty | Jun 16, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership
Imagine Lincoln’s thoughts as he watched the smoke from Confederate campfires rise into the sky just a few miles from the White House, well aware that there were insufficient troops to defend the city should they choose to attack. As a backdrop to this disturbing...
by Art Petty | Jun 15, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
It’s a great week of slowly rising temperatures here in Chicago, but still not prime time for iced coffee in the morning. Today’s cup is a dark, bold Papau New Guinea, roasted locally of course. Now before you skewer me for suggesting in the title of this post that...
