by Art Petty | Apr 4, 2011 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Project Management
Rule #17: If the flak is heavy, you’re near the target. (No flak, no target.) From Management Lessons of the Memphis Belle copyright: Eric Lieberman and Paul Byrne I’ve yet to accomplish anything worth a damn when I didn’t have a fair number of critics lined up and...
by Art Petty | Mar 28, 2011 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Product Management, Project Management
Want to know where to find your best and brightest emerging leaders? Here’s a hint, you’ll have to use your peripheral vision to see them, because they are moving sideways at a high rate of speed. The Rise of the Informal Leader: While it’s unlikely that hierarchical...
by Art Petty | Mar 2, 2011 | Leadership, Leading Change
Real-Time Lessons in Leadership Jody Weis relinquished his role as “Top Cop” here in Chicago, after what was a tumultuous and a productive three-year run in this thankless job. Weis was a controversial appointment by Mayor Daley. He was an outsider…a product of the...
by Art Petty | Feb 26, 2011 | Leadership, Leading Change
Note from Art: every week, I share three thought-provoking management posts for the week. Fair warning: I take a broad view of management, so my selections will range from leadership to innovation to finance and personal development and beyond. This week’s...
by Art Petty | Feb 19, 2011 | Career, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
Note from Art: Coming attractions and new features. Why? Because I cannot stand running in place. The Power of a Story and a New Saturday Serial: One of the lessons Rich and I learned in writing Practical Lessons in Leadership, was the power of stories for making...
by Art Petty | Feb 18, 2011 | Leadership, Leading Change
Note from Art: every Friday, I share three thought-provoking management posts for the week. Fair warning: I take a broad view of management, so my selections will range from leadership to innovation to finance and personal development and beyond. This week’s...