by Art Petty | Jun 1, 2017 | Emerging Leaders, Leading Change
I’ve never met a CEO who was confident her organization was generating the leadership talent necessary to meet the needs of their changing business. The shortage of emerging leadership talent in a world seemingly mad with change and disruption is the stuff of...
by Art Petty | May 30, 2017 | Emerging Leaders, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leading Change
We spend a great deal of time talking about what it takes to lead in business. Perhaps we should devote a bit more time to what it means to follow. There are no great leaders without effective followers. There are no successful transformations without effective...
by Art Petty | May 19, 2017 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leading Change
IBM is the latest firm to announce an end to remote working arrangements—a practice it popularized and enabled through its products and advertising. It seems there’s a trend, particularly in struggling companies ranging from Best Buy a few years ago, to Yahoo, and...
by Art Petty | Apr 7, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
We’re taught from an early age in school what we need to do to earn the “A.” Unfortunately, the real world isn’t that structured, predictable, or kind. Learning to tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty in business is essential for survival....
by Art Petty | Mar 5, 2017 | Leadership, Leading Change
Last week, The CEO and founder of Uber, Travis Kalanick, acknowledged after the latest in a series of misfires at the high-flying firm: “It’s time to grow up,” and that he “Will seek leadership help.” The misfires in recent weeks include a patent infringement...
by Art Petty | Feb 26, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
One of the flaws of much of the literature and training on leadership, team development, and organizational change, is the search for the big fix. Frameworks, models and broad, sweeping programs are alluring, yet prove unwieldy in their translation from the page or...
