by Art Petty | Mar 13, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership
Welcome to my new video series where the emphasis is on sharing ideas to help you solve problems and strengthen performance at work. For our kick-off video, I share an approach on setting the stage for a great day that I learned from the team I was leading through a...
by Art Petty | Oct 19, 2016 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, Leadership
Whether we are describing the workplace or the classroom setting, too often, our management approaches stifle independent thinking. We create measures and scorecards and performance evaluations that promote a narrow set of behaviors. What gets measured gets...
by Art Petty | Oct 16, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leading Change
A great mentor of mine was right when it came to hiring talent: “You have to break the eggs to make an omelet.” When hiring senior managers and people for critical leadership roles, I hire for character and potential. Damn the competency model. Sorry H.R....
by Art Petty | Sep 24, 2016 | Art of Managing, Career
Nearly 100 percent of the time my coaching and strategy consulting assignments bump up against the relationship issue as an obstacle. Not my relationship with the client, but rather somewhere in the client environment, an important relationship that is so...
by Art Petty | Aug 28, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Strategy
“Past performance is an indicator of future success.” While our financial documents state just the opposite as it relates to investment performance, we run our organizations as if it were a hard fast rule. In many circumstances, it’s a trap. Any recent job...
by Art Petty | Aug 15, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Strategy
I once worked for a firm that reorganized every April. You could set your watch by it. Nothing important or innovative happened from January to June. Even at my young age, it was clear after a couple of cycles that the reorganization was a political chess game that...
