by Art Petty | Apr 9, 2017 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership
I’ve managed across cultures for much of my career. I’ve worked with individuals and teams from all around the globe. We’ve been successful. I have people I’m honored to call friends on several continents. For my work as an executive, I intuitively gravitated to...
by Art Petty | Apr 7, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
We’re taught from an early age in school what we need to do to earn the “A.” Unfortunately, the real world isn’t that structured, predictable, or kind. Learning to tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty in business is essential for survival....
by Art Petty | Apr 6, 2017 | Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership
The term, Shifting Baseline Syndrome, is used to describe the acceptance of changes in baseline measures in a system over time. This syndrome masks or distorts reality. An ecologist who takes key measures of an ecosystem at one point and time and references those as...
by Art Petty | Apr 3, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
If you live to be 75 years old, that’s 2.37 Gigaseconds. A relative blink of an eye. We all choose to invest our unknown allotment of time in different ways. Some strive for financial resources and others for significance. Some focus on creating and building. Others...
by Art Petty | Mar 24, 2017 | Career, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
Imagine taking on the simultaneous equation of solving for strengthening your firm’s performance, while growing as a leader and learning to be at your best all of the time. Admittedly, those are lofty ambitions on their own, and akin to climbing Everest without...
by Art Petty | Mar 23, 2017 | Leadership, Product Management
I’m a long-time fan of the great team at Pragmatic Marketing. This firm is the leader in helping develop product managers and marketing professionals, and I’ve been pleased to serve as a client and now cheerleader for many years. I was recently invited to...
