by Art Petty | Feb 20, 2016 | Career, Leadership
The work this week ranged from mentoring first-time managers, and building trust on your team to thoughts on building accountability, turning stress into performance and leveraging the insights of those brilliant management thinkers, the videogame designers. Enjoy!...
by Art Petty | Feb 18, 2016 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership
We do not love change in our careers, jobs and organizations. That may be an understatement. Human resistance to unanticipated or uncontrollable change transcends the issues of power and politics and our place in the pecking order. This type of change is the stuff of...
by Art Petty | Feb 14, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The title of this post is drawn from the book, “Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win,” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. These warrior heroes do an outstanding job relating the lessons from life or death circumstances to our significantly safer corporate...
by Art Petty | Feb 14, 2016 | Career, Leadership
NEW PROGRAM: Monthly Group Coaching Call. Join me and a small number of other motivated professionals on a monthly hour-long group call where we will discuss common leadership challenges and solutions and engage in spotlight coaching and live q/a. It’s a great...
by Art Petty | Feb 13, 2016 | Art of Managing, Career, Leadership
You could not have scripted a more fascinating reality show than the one unfolding in front of us thus far in 2016. The current tumult in the world of politics, geopolitical stress and economics finds me and I suspect many of you pining for quieter times. Nonetheless,...
by Art Petty | Feb 4, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Strategy
The next time you get to the end of the roll of paper towels, instead of immediately throwing the cardboard tube into the recycling bin, channel your inner kid and put it up to your eye and use it as an imaginary telescope. Admit it, you did it. We all did. Wrapping...