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Management Excellence Toolkit-Part 3: How to Frame Your Decisions for Success

Your decisions define you as a leader and a manager, yet we spend very little time in our busy lives finding ways to improve our abilities in this area. This Management Excellence Toolkit Series will help you recognize the challenges and pitfalls of individual and group decision-making and offer ideas on improving performance for you and your co-workers. In this 3rd Part of an on-going series, we tackle the issue of properly framing issues to improve idea generation and decision development.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:11-05:00March 9th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|2 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: When Leading is an Unnatural Act

One of the interesting outcomes I’ve observed when engaging truly thoughtful people in the process of understanding the role of a leader and the commitment required for success, is that some people decide it’s not a good fit. However, we don't make it easy for them to reach this conclusion.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:12-05:00March 8th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|15 Comments

Flim-Flam Man, If You Were a Motorboat, and Other Moronic Interview Adventures

I manage to be a frequent recipient of horrific boss and interview stories from blog readers, twitter followers and colleagues around the globe. The level of what I describe as "moronocity" in the hiring community is off-the-charts, at a time when securing great talent has never been more important. Here are a few of the most recent examples:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:13-05:00March 7th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|4 Comments

Management Week in Review for March 4, 2011

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 selections feature content on reinventing management, the strategic and practical implications of upgrade plans for consumer electronics products and some guidance on improving our decision-making by better utilizing outside advisors. Enjoy!

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:14-05:00March 4th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|3 Comments

Introducing: The Millennial View

Today's guest author, Eric Rodriguez, is a former student of mine and someone passionate about management, leadership and developing as a professional in his career. Eric recently approached me about writing some guest posts here at Management Excellence to build his on-line brand (a great idea on his part), and we sat down to discuss ideas. After talking over potential topics, we both zeroed in on a Millennials in the Workplace theme...but with a twist versus a lot of the other content found on this issue. Our twist is to change the perspective, and instead of an endless stream of "experienced" authors writing about what it's like to deal with the merging of the generations in the workforce, Eric will offer his perspective on navigating early career steps from the eyes of a twenty-something.

By Eric Rodriguez|2024-08-08T13:35:16-05:00March 3rd, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|9 Comments

In the Battle for Change, Attacking the Culture Usually Proves Fatal

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 FBI, and someone who hadn’t earned any street cred with the powerful cultural force that is the rank and file of the Chicago Police Department. He drove change, improved key measures and alienated himself from the entire organization in the process. His situation offers a number of valuable lessons for all of us.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:38-05:00March 2nd, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|3 Comments

4 Key Skills Leaders Must Develop to Succeed in Today’s Workplace

With the clear disclaimer that there are no magic formulas, silver bullets or guaranteed fast-track approaches to success in the workplace, there are a number of critical steps you can take to accelerate progress and improve your odds. Here are 4 key skills you must develop to succeed in today's workplace:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:40-05:00March 1st, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|12 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™-The Importance of Cultivating Your Influence

While your own level of influence might not be something that crosses your mind on a daily basis, your relative level of influence in your organization is at least one reasonable proxy for measuring your effectiveness as a leader.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:41-05:00February 28th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|6 Comments

Management Week in Review for February 26, 2011

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 selections feature content on dealing with a firm's culture during periods of change, building great businesses the right way, and deliberately crushing your competitors through effective management and leadership. Enjoy!

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:42-05:00February 26th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|3 Comments

Two Voices on Being Heard and Not Being Heard

Mary Jo Asmus and I are back with our third collaborative blogging effort, focusing on what it means and feels like to be heard and not to be heard. Our first efforts, "Two Voices on the Words of a Leader" and "Two Voices on Humility and the Effective Leader," remain personal and reader favorites. I like the "Words" post so much...particularly Mary Jo's portion, that with her permission, I'm including it in my forthcoming book, Leadership Caffeine-Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:43-05:00February 23rd, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|8 Comments