by Art Petty | Mar 10, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Strategy
There’s enough negative going around. Here’s a few worth reading that will leave you thinking and maybe even feeling a bit more upbeat. I’ll Have Fries with that Strategy and Please Pass the Data Students of strategy and performance excellence might want to take a...
by Art Petty | Mar 8, 2009 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Welcome back for this week’s double-shot of leadership motivation. The gray and wet Midwestern weekend is giving way to a promising new week and it’s time to get going. I’m brewing a pot of New Mexico’s award winning Pinon Coffee, courtesy of my sister-in law as...
by Art Petty | Mar 6, 2009 | Leadership
Intuitively, it makes sense that leaders that are more engaged and engaging tend to elicit better responses and better results from their teams. Perhaps nice people can finish first. Now, the father of the concept of Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman (What Makes...
by Art Petty | Mar 4, 2009 | Leadership, Leading Change
It seems that Yogi Berra was right (that’s the former Yankee player and manager, not the Jellystone Park character on the lookout for a quick meal). One of the reasons that so much business writing and advice sounds familiar is that we conveniently keep repeating the...
by Art Petty | Mar 3, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
One of the themes that I hear consistently in workshops and in discussions with the professionals in my MBA classes is frustration over the propensity of a firm’s leaders to never say “No” to a project. Lacking a viable mechanism to compare, evaluate and select and...
by Art Petty | Mar 2, 2009 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I will return next Monday with my Leadership Caffeine for the New Week series. Today is an opportunity to celebrate post number 1,000 by Wally Bock at the Three Star Leadership blog. Many of you are readers and subscribers of Three Star Leadership, but on the off...