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New Leader Tuesday-7 Ideas to Help You Survive Your Sink or Swim Leadership Lessons

There was a time when prevailing wisdom for teaching people to swim involved chucking them in the water and letting them flail and flounder. This Sink or Swim (S. o. S.) method of teaching is likely responsible for more than a few really bad moments for the unwitting victims and a lifetime of terror-inducing flashbacks for many. Oddly, we subject a good number of first time supervisors and managers to a similar rite of passage in what I describe as S. o. S. Leadership Development. If you are on the receiving end of this method of new leaders development, here are 7 suggestions to help make the swim a bit more bearable:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:30:52-05:00July 10th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Myths and Realities of Senior Management Teams

There are few environments more hostile to forming something resembling a functional team, than a group of people comprised of senior managers. Whether you are a member of one of these groups or the CEO in charge, it’s healthy to recognize some of the facts and myths of senior management teams and adapt your behaviors and approaches accordingly.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:30:53-05:00July 9th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|5 Comments

Just One Thing-Strive to Be a Better Team Participant

There are shelves of books and countless blog posts out there on improving team performance. Last I checked, there isn’t much for us to consume on the topic of improving our performance as team and project participants. Here are 12 ideas on to improve your participation and potentially raise the performance of everyone around you.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:30:54-05:00July 5th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

7 Ideas to Enhance Your Career During Your Firm’s Strategic Planning Process

If you are tapped to participate in your firm’s strategic planning process, it’s important to approach this work as a career building opportunity, and not simply “more work” piled on top of your already overloaded schedule. Here are 7 Ideas to help you leverage this great opportunity:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:30:55-05:00July 2nd, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|7 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™ Podcast-J. Keith Murnighan on Do Nothing!

Kellogg Professor and author, J. Keith Murnighan, offers up some fascinating and occasionally counter-intuitive (and research backed) ideas in Do Nothing! How to Stop Overmanaging and Become a Great Leader. This is a fun and eminently useful leadership read!

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:30:56-05:00June 27th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|2 Comments

New Leader Tuesday-How to Be Viewed as a Jerk from Day One

The bookshelves and blog posts are filled with great advice on how to lead effectively, yet, mostly what I hear in workshops and classrooms are the stories of the lousy habits of Grade A Jerks. Since there are clearly many people who aspire to this lofty level in the world of Jerks, I thought I would make your job just a bit easier by offering up this starter list. Here are 14 ideas guaranteed to help you succeed in being viewed as a Grade A Jerk:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:30:57-05:00June 26th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|7 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™-The Case for Hiring Outside the Lines of Your Industry

It’s often politically unpopular and seemingly risky to hire for a key role outside of the boundaries of your firm’s industry. It also might be just the right thing to infuse your team or organization with fresh perspectives and new ideas.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:30:58-05:00June 25th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|4 Comments

New Leader Tuesday: Trust Feeds Respect and Builds Performance

Respect. It’s a complex concept filled, filled with nuance and subtlety and gesture, all buried in a simple word. Most of us are wired to appreciate respect and to reciprocate in kind. And vice-versa. One of the most powerful and effective ways to show respect is to extend our trust. Of course, for all of us, particularly new leaders, that feels risky and almost counter-intuitive. It's not.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:30:59-05:00June 19th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™-Look to Workplace Partnerships to Support Growth

Many of the most accomplished professionals and leaders I’ve encountered point not to mentors as sources of guidance and inspiration, but rather to a particular workplace peer-level partnership as having been critical to their success. Here are some important Do's and Don'ts when seeking to cultivate powerful workplace partnerships:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:31:00-05:00June 18th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|2 Comments

Just One Thing: Always Add Clarity to Challenge

Too many strategies and corporate plans (and even our personal improvement plans) outline lofty challenges in heady words, but they fail to provide the clarity necessary for us and for our teams to move forward in an integrated fashion.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:31:01-05:00June 13th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|6 Comments