by Art Petty | Dec 21, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Marketing, Product Management
Note from Art: this distinctly non-holiday post couldn’t wait for a better time. There’s no time like the present for leaders and managers to be thinking deeply about their businesses and the road ahead. Dr. Deming once stated that he hoped one of his life’s...
by Art Petty | Dec 9, 2008 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Project Management
Author and consultant Gary Hamel writes in the preface to his latest book, The Future of Management, that, “Management is out of date. Like the combustion engine, it’s a technology that has largely stopped evolving and that’s not good.” Hamel challenges leaders and...
by Art Petty | Dec 2, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Marketing, Product Management, Project Management
I suspect that most readers will agree that examples of management excellence, high performance and great leadership are not the topics dominating the news in this emerging “we’ve never seen anything like this before” economy. Instead, we are fed a constant stream of...
by Art Petty | Nov 24, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Project Management, Strategy
I’ve danced with this topic before (Struggling with Strategy? Think Project Management), and the more experience that I gain helping clients improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their strategic planning and execution program development activities through...
by Art Petty | Nov 24, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change
At the risk of showing my inner-nerd, one of the more memorable sayings from the Star Trek series of shows (post Kirk & Crew) is: “Resistance is Futile.” This of course was the mantra of the Borg, a race of part-human, part machines that sought to assimilate all...
by Art Petty | Nov 10, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change
Perhaps it is human nature, but we tend to eschew change either in our personal habits or in business settings until we are faced with mortality. In organizations, most significant change occurs during times of crisis when the threat of extinction sufficiently...
