1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles Archives

Want to Lead? #4 of 7. It's Time to Ask and Answer a Difficult Question

The first three questions in this series challenged you to think through issues that are both philosophical and powerfully practical. Why do you want to lead? Do you understand the true role of a leader? Do you understand that the the skills that made you successful as an individual contributor are not the skills that will carry you forward? The next question in the series builds on #3 by asking you to consider whether you are truly willing to let go of some of that expertise as part of your transformation as a leader.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:38:31-05:00June 30th, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Want to Lead? #3 of 7-Your Individual Contributor Skills No Longer Count!

Question number 3 in our series: Do you understand that the skills that make you successful as an individual contributor are not the skills you need to succeed as a leader?

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:38:32-05:00June 28th, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Prepare Your Mind to Conquer Presentation Anxiety

Few phrases are capable of sending shivers down a person’s spine, like, “Bob or Mary, why don’t you present your ideas at our next meeting.” Except perhaps, “Bob or Mary,” why don’t you present your ideas at our next Board of Directors meeting. For some people, this seemingly golden opportunity to show and share is akin to receiving a prison sentence with no hope for parole.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:38:35-05:00June 28th, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|17 Comments

Summer Shorts for June 25, 2010 from Management Excellence

With a father and sons weekend in the offing, I’ll keep the shorts short (bad combination of words!) and offer you encouragement to get out and enjoy the all too fast-moving weekends of summer. Here in the Midwest, we feel good about cracking 2-digits on the number of weekends that make up our available summer, so, there is no time to waste. Some quick-thoughts and fast links:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:38:36-05:00June 25th, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|2 Comments

Want to Lead? Answer These Questions! #2 of 7

The Seven Key Questions for Ambitious, Aspiring Leaders are presented in Practical Lessons in Leadership by Art Petty and Rich Petro. I'll explore each question here at Building Better Leaders through individual "Leadership Tip of the Day" posts, offering ideas for investigation. Question number one challenged you to ask and answer, "Why do you want to lead?" While the first question focused on motivation, the second question goes squarely to understanding.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:38:37-05:00June 24th, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Want to Lead? Answer These Questions! Number 1 of 7

The Seven Key Questions are presented in Practical Lessons in Leadership (Amazon) by Art Petty and Rich Petro. I'll explore each question here at Building Better Leaders through individual "Leadership Tip of the Day" posts, offering ideas for investigation. The first question: why do you want to lead other people?

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:38:38-05:00June 23rd, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Hyper-Reality, Slimy Weasels and the Biting Words of a General

I rarely follow a post with a related post, but the current stir created by General McChrystal, the senior military leader in Afghanistan, with his poor word choices and poor judgment in communicating with a reporter, begs a follow-on to Monday’s Leadership Caffeine post, The Word Selection of Journeyman Leaders.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:38:39-05:00June 23rd, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|2 Comments

Innovation is for Everyone

Innovation isn’t just the domain of engineers, designers and other creative product types and functions inside organizations. Everyone and every function has the opportunity to innovate in pursuit of serving internal or external customers, improving business processes and helping the firm achieve strategic objectives.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:38:40-05:00June 22nd, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

7 Signs that Your Leadership Approach is Working

The best leaders are critically aware of their role and power in shaping the environment on their teams and inside their organizations. They are also aware that almost no one will ever provide the boss honest, actionable feedback on performance. I encourage leaders to develop an extreme awareness of what is going on around them as the best indicator of their effectiveness.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:38:42-05:00June 21st, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: The Word Selection of Journeyman Leaders

For too many leaders, word selection is a hurried and blind groping in the toolbox for something that will do the job. In the absence of careful selection, a quick barking of orders, an unfiltered criticism or an out of context pronouncement will all create collateral damage.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:38:43-05:00June 21st, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|7 Comments