by Art Petty | Mar 20, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
With the milder weather here in the Midwest, I took the occasion to visit our north woods residence a full month earlier than normal this past weekend. The first visit of the season is always one filled with hope and excitement for the coming months and just a bit of...
by Art Petty | Mar 13, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership
Welcome to my new video series where the emphasis is on sharing ideas to help you solve problems and strengthen performance at work. For our kick-off video, I share an approach on setting the stage for a great day that I learned from the team I was leading through a...
by Art Petty | Mar 5, 2017 | Leadership, Leading Change
Last week, The CEO and founder of Uber, Travis Kalanick, acknowledged after the latest in a series of misfires at the high-flying firm: “It’s time to grow up,” and that he “Will seek leadership help.” The misfires in recent weeks include a patent infringement...
by Art Petty | Feb 26, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
One of the flaws of much of the literature and training on leadership, team development, and organizational change, is the search for the big fix. Frameworks, models and broad, sweeping programs are alluring, yet prove unwieldy in their translation from the page or...
by Art Petty | Feb 24, 2017 | Career, Leadership
One benefit of experience is the store of leadership mistakes we all have to draw upon in our current endeavors. For me, my leadership mistakes are occasionally the topic of my workshop and classroom cases and activities. I am a prolific case writer for...
by Art Petty | Feb 21, 2017 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Strategy
In Matthew May’s excellent, thought-provoking and helpful read, “Winning the Brain Game,” he describes seven flaws in our thinking processes that impede our success at innovating and solving problems in creative ways. One of those flaws, “Leaping,” is something I...
