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...
by Art Petty | Mar 12, 2016 | Leadership
I ranged far and wide this week, tackling topics on getting in the game, cleaning house (or not), learning to observe your colleagues in action and my favorite: neuroscience and your impact on your team’s mood. Enjoy! Promoted! Clean House or Rearrange the...
by Art Petty | Mar 10, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership
In 30 years of marriage, my wife and I have disagreed on only a few issues of consequence. One of those is our taste in movies. (Hey, movies are consequential!) I am addicted to character study and she loves action movies. Because marriage is built on compromise, we...
