by Art Petty | Nov 13, 2015 | Just One Thing, Leadership, Leading Change
I confess to having cultivated a strong affinity for Big Thinkers in my advancing years as an executive. The flip-side of this growing affinity is my creeping impatience and dismissal of small thinkers. Given the scale and scope of the challenges in our world and in...
by Art Petty | Nov 8, 2015 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The Leadership Caffeine™ series is intended to make you think and act. — There’s the factory manager who walked around the plant every morning greeting co-workers by name in his non-native language. And the CEO who visited the production facilities in a foreign...
by Art Petty | Nov 4, 2015 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
Most businesses and most management teams flail and fail when it comes to the work of strategy. In today’s world, where the long-cycle strategy process has been replaced by short-bursts of experimentation and iteration, it’s essential to reduce the fail...
by Art Petty | Nov 3, 2015 | Leadership
Ideas for those starting out or starting over. — While not actively trying out for “America’s Dirtiest Jobs,” as an older teenager striving to pay for my college tuition, I likely would have been a great candidate. One job involved scraping coal mill parts with...
by Art Petty | Nov 1, 2015 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The Leadership Caffeine™ series is intended to make you think and act. — Harvard Business School Professor, Linda Hill’s, description of context faced by everyone in a leadership role in this era: “overload, ambiguity and conflict” is spot on. It is a much more...
by Art Petty | Oct 13, 2015 | Leadership
Tuesday at the Management Excellence blog is for anyone getting started (or starting over) on their leadership journey. It pays to remember: Your new title confers authority. You have to earn the respect of your team members When they succeed, you win. Your boss voted...
