by Art Petty | Sep 11, 2017 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
The rude awakening for many first-time managers is the reality that they are now actually responsible for the outcomes of others. It’s a far cry from the life of an individual contributor when the only difficult person you had to deal with was staring back at you in...
by Art Petty | Sep 10, 2017 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
High performance in an organization or with a project team is never an accident. There’s a blending of the right ingredients at the right time. There’s a catalyst somewhere in the process, and much like that favorite meal mom used to prepare on your birthday, there’s...
by Art Petty | Sep 6, 2017 | Career, Leadership
I would be shocked if you cannot recall being in a meeting where someone in a position of authority was uttering something so fantastically full of crap that you thought you might choke. I would be even more shocked if the general response of the individuals present...
by Art Petty | Aug 28, 2017 | First Time Manager Series, Leadership
My own challenging first-time management experience aside, I’ve worked with hundreds of first-time managers in a variety of programs, and there’s just no way to sugarcoat reality for this job. Surviving the early phase is a bit like what it must feel like to scale...
by Art Petty | Aug 27, 2017 | Art of Managing, Leadership
Give me a choice between working for a hard-driving, perfection demanding so-and-so and someone who is inordinately preoccupied with my feelings; I will take the former every time. It will be stressful, occasionally unpleasant, and the unyielding expectation of high...
by Art Petty | Aug 25, 2017 | Just One Thing, Leadership
The funny (as in odd) thing about the idea of leadership is there’s nothing particularly challenging about it. We’re not unifying theories of physics or contemplating the greater meaning of life. Leadership is common sense. Why then, do so many fail to get it right?...
