by Art Petty | Jun 20, 2011 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Overheard: “I don’t have the stomach for the political games around here.” 4 Universal Rules of Organizational Politics: 1. You ignore organizational politics at your own peril. 2. You engage in the politics of your organization at your own peril. 3. All organizations...
by Art Petty | Jun 15, 2011 | Decision-Making, Leadership
If you like a good leadership challenge, take a few moments and click over to Dan McCarthy’s Great Leadership blog and check out the first in a new monthly program: The Leadership Development Roundtable Challenge. This new program, conceived by Dan and wildly...
by Art Petty | Jun 9, 2011 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership
One bad hire can poison the workplace pond, tarnish your reputation and impact your team’s/firm’s ability to execute. Do this a few times and your mistakes will likely knock you out of the hiring game and potentially into the cozy confines of today’s crowded...
by Art Petty | Jun 1, 2011 | Career, Decision-Making
A good friend brought me up to speed on her career challenges recently, and after listening and empathizing with the unfortunate events that led to the recent job loss, I asked her what she had learned in the process. Her response included some good nuggets of...
by Art Petty | May 23, 2011 | Challenging Conversations, Decision-Making, Project Management
Getting to a good decision on big issues is challenging. Getting through the discussions leading up to a decision however, often resembles something on the difficulty of slogging through the Amazonian jungles in search of a mythical lost city made of gold. If you...
by Art Petty | Apr 28, 2011 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership
Much of who we are and what we do in our professional lives is built on an unforgiving foundation of trust. Trust is hard earned and those bestowing trust do so slowly, carefully and tentatively, all the while testing for reasons to pull back and guard this precious...
