by Art Petty | Oct 22, 2017 | Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Strategy
Most large-scale business transformations fail. It’s difficult but not impossible. I’m not talking about tactical and even minor strategic adjustments. I’m talking about wholesale transformations—the type where everything that used to work no longer does. “Honey, they...
by Art Petty | Oct 8, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
I have an allergic reaction to the gravitational pull of the status quo when it masquerades as conventional wisdom. Too often, leaders and managers reduce complex and emerging situations to an algorithm developed for another time and set of variables. It’s a...
by Art Petty | Sep 10, 2017 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
High performance in an organization or with a project team is never an accident. There’s a blending of the right ingredients at the right time. There’s a catalyst somewhere in the process, and much like that favorite meal mom used to prepare on your birthday, there’s...
by Art Petty | Sep 1, 2017 | Career, Just One Thing, Leading Change
As an organizational leader, change is the stuff of long days and sleepless nights. For everyone else in the organization, the moment in time when you learn change is inevitable is often the stuff of panic attacks. That’s a shame because a more rational response...
by Art Petty | Jul 23, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Curiosity doesn’t get much airplay when it comes to the writing or speaking about leaders. That’s a shame, because it may be one of the most important attributes of leaders who succeed with their teams and businesses in our world of rapid change. Natural...
by Art Petty | Jun 26, 2017 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Imagine assembling a team of all-star professionals boasting great pedigrees of success to tackle a big, exciting expedition, and seeing them fall flat with sub-par performance. The disappointment is palpable, and if you’re the manager who assembled this team, the...
