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...
by Art Petty | Mar 6, 2016 | Leadership
One of the initial decisions you face when you are promoted to a leadership role with direct report managers is whether to focus on building around the talent you just inherited or clean house and start fresh with a team that is most definitely yours. The stakes are...
by Art Petty | Mar 5, 2016 | Leadership
New Leadership and Management Writing this Week: I was thrilled to release my new (free, registration required) e-book: “A Bold Cup of Leadership Caffeine: Ideas to Stimulate High Performance.” This brief, colorful 32-page guide is filled with some of the...
by Art Petty | Mar 3, 2016 | Leadership
Let’s face it, bad days happen to all of us. You wake up late, your kid misses the bus and then you get a traffic ticket trying to make up for lost time. Now you’re really late and when you are momentarily distracted trying to answer the phone call from your...
by Art Petty | Feb 21, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Developing as a leader is a process punctuated by occasional events that test our progression and our character. Everything else is just practice. I had an interesting discussion with a long retired former executive just a few months before his passing. You would have...
