1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles Archives

6 Reasons Why We Should Apply Game Design Approaches to Designing Workplaces

Imagine a world of work where your colleagues worked tirelessly to complete the hard work that keeps everything moving. They voluntarily stay late and even deprive themselves of sleep to ensure the work is done. Along the way, they collaborate at a moment’s notice to fend off enemies and slay the dragons that arise from unexpected locations, and they’re always working on their own skills development. Sound like fiction to you? Rather than fictional, perhaps it’s virtual—as in gaming. Yes, video gaming.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:48-05:00November 18th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|5 Comments

Art of Managing—Beware Lazy Approaches to the Hard Work of Strategy

“Not miscalculation, bad strategy is the active avoidance of the hard work of crafting a good strategy.” Richard Rumelt—Good Strategy/Bad Strategy Consider: “Our strategy is to be more profitable than our competitors.” “Our strategy is to grow from 10,000 to 100,000 customers in the next three years.” “Our strategy is to be the leading provider [...]

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:49-05:00November 17th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Leadership Caffeine™—Seeing and Observing

We spend an incredible amount of time immersed in a world of our own fabrication—the world as it feels and looks and acts from inside our organization’s walls. It’s not the culture that will kill you, it’s the view. It’s time to change it. Take off the blinders and look up and out further. Extend your focal point.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:50-05:00November 15th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Just One Thing—Think Big(ger)

I confess to having cultivated a strong affinity for Big Thinkers in my advancing years as an executive. The flip-side of this growing affinity is my creeping impatience and dismissal of small thinkers. Given the scale and scope of the challenges in our world and in our industries and firms, small thinkers are a drag on the drive to change. And yes, life and our careers are too short to think small.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:51-05:00November 13th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Assessing Power and Politics in Your Organization

Much of the writing about leadership leaves out two of the most critical topics: power and politics. That’s a problem, because the political environment defines the playing field and those with the power dominate the organization’s agenda. Ignoring these facts of organizational life is a formula for futility. Here's a checklist of 10 questions to get you started on forming a better picture of your firm's political environment:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:52-05:00November 10th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|3 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—The Power of Simple Gestures

There are literally dozens of opportunities every day for you to make a difference. From the fundamental act of paying focused attention to a coworker, to offering a personal morning greeting or engaging in the acts of management such as: providing encouragement or delivering respectful, constructive feedback, these simple gestures have a big impact on the people and environment.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:53-05:00November 8th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Just One Thing—The Future of Work Now Arriving

From radically changing business models to rampant creative destruction driven by digitization and globalization to a world where ideas are the primary form of capital and the purveyors of ideas move freely through this friction-free environment (think: gig economy), this emerging world of work and career has little resemblance to the one of even a mere decade-ago.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:55-05:00November 6th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

High Performance Management—All Strategy Work is Personal

Most businesses and most management teams flail and fail when it comes to the work of strategy. In today's world, where the long-cycle strategy process has been replaced by short-bursts of experimentation and iteration, it's essential to reduce the fail and flail by attacking the root causes of so much dysfunction with this work. Here are 7-Steps to to help the senior team get it right:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:56-05:00November 4th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

New Leader Tuesday—You’ve Got to Get Your Hands Dirty

The best leaders quickly learn that the difficult messy tasks are the difference-makers. They seek training and coaching and they practice these tasks over and over again in pursuit of competence.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:57-05:00November 3rd, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Navigating Overload, Ambiguity and Conflict

Harvard Business School Professor, Linda Hill’s, description of context faced by everyone in a leadership role in this era: “overload, ambiguity and conflict” is spot on. It is a much more articulate labeling of what I describe as, “the leadership blender.” And it reflects the state of existence of a large percentage of leaders as they strive to do more with less, faster, and with more impact. You could not ask for three more challenging contextual sets of circumstances. Here are some thoughts in developing your "inner game of leading" to help you survive and thrive in this era of change:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:21:58-05:00November 1st, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|4 Comments