1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles Archives

Leadership Caffeine™: Time to Take out the 360-Degree Trash

Note: today's rave is brought to you by one too many conversations with frustrated managers and employees over their firm's evaluation systems. While I’m certain there’s a good 360-degree feedback program out there somewhere, the trash frequently heaped upon unwitting corporate victims by misguided management groups via their HR departments is….well, it’s trash. Please place it in a proper container and dispose of it before it starts to stink.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:44-05:00February 22nd, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|14 Comments

Coming Soon: A Saturday Serial & A View from the Millennial Perspective

During the next few weeks, I will kick off two new features here on the blog. The first will be a Saturday Management Serial...an on-going story involving fictional firms and companies and the buffet of leadership, management and business issues that require solving by you, the readers. The second new feature will offer a view from the youngest generation in the workforce on the realities of leading, managing and developing a career. We've heard a great deal from the 40-something management group on the challenges of leading the generations...now, we'll hear the story from the other side of the age fence. Coming soon!

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:45-05:00February 19th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Management Week in Review for February 18, 2011

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 selections feature content on gaining control of your body language, ensuring that your participative leadership approach is genuine, and dealing with employee and management communication challenges during periods of change. Enjoy!

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:46-05:00February 18th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|8 Comments

Management Excellence Toolkit Part 2: Mind the Decision Traps

Part 1 of this series emphasized the importance of developing, updating and referencing a Decision Journal as part of your program to improve your decision-making effectiveness. In Part 2, we focus on understanding a bit more about how we make decisions, and I introduce the topic of decision traps.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:48-05:00February 16th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Leadership Caffeine™-Get it Right When Starting Up with Your New Team

Stepping into the role of new (to the team) leader for an existing team is a daunting task. It’s also a time rich in opportunity for everyone involved, if the new leader executes a proper start-up strategy and avoids the most common start-up pitfalls.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:49-05:00February 15th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|11 Comments

Management Week in Review for February 11, 2011

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 selections feature content on corporate struggles in a changing world, ideas on creating organizations that drive remarkable commitment from their employees and customers, and a buffet of great leadership reading options at the February Leadership Development Carnival. Enjoy!

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:50-05:00February 11th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|3 Comments

It’s Time to Burn the Old Script Used by New CEOs

It's Time to Burn the Old Script Used by New CEOs. Now playing at a theater or office near you... .

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:51-05:00February 10th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|15 Comments

Management Excellence Toolkit: Part 1-Create a Decision Journal

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 Part 1, I offer guidance on creating a Decision Journal for key and strategic decisions to monitor your effectiveness over time.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:52-05:00February 9th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|3 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Learn to Make Quick Connections

In a typical day fast moving day, there are dozens of small opportunities for leaders to make or strengthen connections with team members and peers. Effective leaders strive to leverage these fleeting moments or as golden opportunities to show respect, strengthen connections and even support coalition building. The trick is to execute a deliberate “connection” strategy throughout your day.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:53-05:00February 7th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|16 Comments

Management Week in Review for February 4, 2011

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 selections feature content on assessing whether an executive coach might be right for you, dealing with the dilemma of having promoted the wrong person into management and knowing when it makes best sense to speak up or to remain quiet. Enjoy!

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:55-05:00February 4th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|9 Comments