by Art Petty | Sep 21, 2021 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Strategy
Strategy Work is Mostly Messy in Our Organizations Imagine you have the opportunity to serve as the proverbial fly-on-the-wall for various organizations across different sectors to observe the process of strategy creation. When asked to share what you observed,...
by Art Petty | Aug 30, 2021 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation
Leading in today’s organizations is a complicated, often frustrating experience. I talk daily with individuals operating in the middle of their organizations and with those occupying the upper layers of power and decision-making authority. The pressures they describe...
by Art Petty | Aug 25, 2021 | Art of Managing, Career, Leadership, Leading Change, Self-Development, Think Differently
Long before I started developing and delivering programs, I was both a client of the professional development community and a participant. I invested in professional development for my teams, and I experienced every format available during those decades. We invested...
by Art Petty | Jul 18, 2021 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Think Differently
In too many of our organizations and on our teams, people are engaged at the transaction level. They work, meet, and deliver because it’s expected. They stop short of committing because something is missing from the environment. There’s a lack of unity of purpose. In...
by Art Petty | Jul 11, 2021 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Self-Development
During a coaching call, a client recently commented, “I wish I could hit the reset button with my team.” I’ve been thinking about it ever since. I know my younger self would have been quick to suggest that there were no do-overs in leadership....
by Art Petty | Apr 29, 2021 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Strategy, The Leadership Opportunity, Think Differently
I’ve been a part of an organization that pursued a moon-shot. For myself and the many people involved, it was some of our careers’ most challenging and best work. Like a championship from long ago, when the situation pops into my mind, I smile. It was good...
