by Art Petty | Dec 26, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation
How much value are you creating as a leader? How much more value can you create? How are you supporting the ability of your customers (employees) to create value? Where should you improve to strengthen your value creation? What are your core processes as a leader? How...
by Art Petty | Dec 23, 2008 | Leadership
My postings will slow to a dull roar over the holiday week as I focus on family as well as making progress on my Management Excellence podcast program. I didn’t want to leave my prior essay on Deming and the Failure of American Management as my last post before the...
by Art Petty | Dec 21, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Marketing, Product Management
Note from Art: this distinctly non-holiday post couldn’t wait for a better time. There’s no time like the present for leaders and managers to be thinking deeply about their businesses and the road ahead. Dr. Deming once stated that he hoped one of his life’s...
by Art Petty | Dec 11, 2008 | Leadership
I am one of 13 million or so people in the state of Illinois who along with another few hundred million around the country and perhaps the globe, are watching in horror and fascination at the saga unfolding around the state’s (for the moment) leader and Governor, Rod...
by Art Petty | Dec 10, 2008 | Leadership
I’ve written before on the Art of Asking Questions, but I tripped across the concept of the Questions to Comments ratio somewhere in my travels recently, and I really like it. (I would love to give someone attribution if I could recall who it was that offered up this...
by Art Petty | Dec 9, 2008 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Project Management
Author and consultant Gary Hamel writes in the preface to his latest book, The Future of Management, that, “Management is out of date. Like the combustion engine, it’s a technology that has largely stopped evolving and that’s not good.” Hamel challenges leaders and...
