1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles Archives

It’s Your Career—The Power of Displaying Passion for Your Work

There’s something infectious and likeable about someone who displays obvious passion for their work, particularly when the enthusiasm is anchored in fixing, improving or innovating around something meaningful to others and to the firm. For professionals climbing the rungs of the organizational ladder or navigating boundary crossing in highly siloed organizations, visible enthusiasm for your work will serve you well during your journey. Here are 5 ideas to help you showcase your genuine enthusiasm and strengthen your professional presence:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:00-05:00November 9th, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|3 Comments

The Sticky Topics of Senior Management Team Chemistry & Performance

The use of the word “team” to reference the collection of a firm’s senior leaders is generous at best and fallacious in many cases. Senior managers don’t necessarily gel as a team and perhaps a more accurate description of them in the context of a group might be that they are a collection of intelligent, successful functional leaders who occasionally come together and tolerate each other for a few hours of collegial discussion. Here are a number of ideas to get the toxicity out and the performance up:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:01-05:00November 5th, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|7 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Is that Employee Not Right or Not Ready?

We all know that getting the right people in the right seats is a prerequisite for success. The problem comes in truly assessing whether the individual is Not Ready or Not Right for the role. Here are 4 reasons why we often fail to recognize the "Not Right" characters and 5 ideas to help you deal with this dilemma:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:02-05:00November 3rd, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|9 Comments

Art of Managing—Moving Beyond A Failure to Execute

Resolving the failure to execute problem is much more like a long-term fitness program than a quick weight-loss diet. It involves changing the thinking about what’s most important for organizational health and success and doing the hard work of developing new habits that support continuous improvement. Here are 7 ideas to help you begin developing some healthy new habits:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:03-05:00October 29th, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|4 Comments

Level-Up #2—Reality Check for the New Vice President

There are few more simultaneously exciting and disorienting experiences in your professional life than your initial promotion to a corporate position as vice president of something. Here are 4 very real facts of life for you in your new role and some thoughts about what to do about them:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:04-05:00October 12th, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—What Frequency are You Broadcasting On?

In a conversation with a good friend and highly respected retained search professional, the topic of a “leader’s frequency” was raised. I like the metaphor, although my friend might describe it as much more real than metaphor. In my own experience, the leaders who stand out...the ones who moved the needle for teams, individuals and organizations all broadcast on a frequency that is easy for us to hear and to understand with minimal amounts of noise to distract us from the message.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:05-05:00October 7th, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Level-Up #1—Congratulations on Your Promotion! Now What?

There are few opportunities in your career that offer greater opportunities for learning, growth and personal and financial reward than your move to executive management. And while the opportunities abound, the risks to your career from missteps or failure are also very real.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:06-05:00October 6th, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Level-Up—Career: A New Feature at Management Excellence

With this post, I'm excited to introduce the new Level-Up Career feature here at Management Excellence. The theme is based on my third book (in process): Level-Up—Surviving and Thriving on the Road to Senior Management. The series is focused on helping professionals entering the power-curve of their career learn to succeed and to navigate the challenges during the journey from middle to executive management. Some the planned topics include:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:07-05:00October 5th, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—In Challenging Times, Keep Fear and Failure Outside Looking In

Every organization and every team runs into challenging spots. Life and business don’t always work as planned. “Man plans and God laughs,” as my former CEO would recite. It’s the rough patches that teach you and require you to cultivate your leadership character, and part of this is keeping fear at bay and the specter of failure out of mind and out of the vocabulary of your team. Here are 6 ideas to help you fight off organizational fear and keep your team on track when the going gets rough:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:08-05:00September 28th, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Art of Managing—The Pursuit of Excellence is a Choice

Too few managers and management teams talk about what it means to promote a culture of business performance excellence in and across their organizations. Even fewer work on it.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:09-05:00September 23rd, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments