by Art Petty | Apr 28, 2016 | Career, Leadership
I never envisioned taking a sabbatical. If it were not for my wife pushing and then seizing the initiative, I doubt I ever would have considered much less acted on taking more than a month away from my work. With stubborn reluctance, I pushed away from my desk, packed...
by Art Petty | Apr 24, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
A coaching client—the CEO of a successful software firm—was struggling to help his firm navigate a critical transition to a new strategy. He was forcing his actions, leading by command, and generating stress and strife in his wake. After listening to the comments of...
by Art Petty | Apr 17, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
In relative terms, you have been successful. You have the title, the salary and the perks that say, “success,” but how much of a performance penalty have your leadership tics and bad habits imposed on your teams, your firm and on your career? Some context: most...
by Art Petty | Apr 10, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The words around leadership are well covered. The definitions are complete and the behaviors have been described over and over again by countless authors. There’s very little new to be said about what leadership IS. There is however a great deal to be said about how...
by Art Petty | Apr 8, 2016 | Leadership
Supreme Court Justice Stewart offered in attempting to define pornography, you know it when you see it. Sadly, the same applies to bad leadership. It simulates the act of leading, but does so with total disregard for the heart and soul of the act. It’s cheap,...
by Art Petty | Mar 20, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The hardest work of leading you’ll ever do is not the coaching, problem-solving, communicating and other externally focused activities that occupy your days. Rather, the heavy lifting of creating success as a leader goes on in the space between your ears. It’s...
