by Art Petty | Oct 17, 2017 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Strategy
Unchecked assumptions in our strategic and product or project planning activities are like that car in the blind-spot of our mirrors when driving down the highway. Failing to check before making a move can have disastrous consequences. Effective teams and planners,...
by Art Petty | Oct 16, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Product Management, Project Management
For most of us in our workplaces, there’s no avoiding the presence of cross-functional teams. Too many of our projects and programs cross over departmental or divisional boundary lines to vanquish these groupings of often prickly, over-taxed individuals. And heck, the...
by Art Petty | Oct 13, 2017 | Art of Managing, Just One Thing, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management
“We’ll get this done. I’ll put a team on it.” In truth, there are far fewer teams in the workplace than the use of the term might have you believe. Mostly, we have groups. Or, we have collections of individuals driven by their calendars to show up at an appointed time...
by Art Petty | Oct 11, 2017 | First Time Manager Series, Leadership
Earlier in my management career, a few courageous employees approached my office with looks of determination and resolve on their faces and what seemed like linked arms blocking my exit from the door. (This was the year before my boss congratulated me for showing...
by Art Petty | Oct 8, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
I have an allergic reaction to the gravitational pull of the status quo when it masquerades as conventional wisdom. Too often, leaders and managers reduce complex and emerging situations to an algorithm developed for another time and set of variables. It’s a...
by Art Petty | Sep 28, 2017 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine Podcast, Uncategorized
Gary Morton, author of Commanding Excellence: Inspiring Purpose, Passion, and Ingenuity through Leadership that Matters, is one of the reasons I love live interviews. It would be hard to make up a story as fascinating as Gary’s. From his success at West Point to...
