by Art Petty | Aug 21, 2018 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
As career steps go, shifting from individual contributor to manager is right up there near the top for difficulty level. If you navigated this transition at some point and sustained your career as a manager, you have scars or at least cringe-worthy stories of your...
by Art Petty | Jun 14, 2018 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
For the record, I love Tom Peters’ latest book, “The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work that Wows and Jobs that Last.” It reads like a common-sense punch-in-the-nose reminder on pursuing excellence in the moment with every breath and action you and...
by Art Petty | May 21, 2018 | Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
Crying, yelling, table-pounding anger and shock. And no, I’m not describing my actions when I invested two-hours in watching a season finale of my favorite show to learn the DVR malfunctioned at the critical moment. Rather, these are the emotions every experienced...
by Art Petty | Apr 23, 2018 | Art of Managing, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
For many individuals aspiring to greater heights and salaries in their careers, the idea of managing is enticing. After all, the manager gets to call the shots, delegate the work, and make the important decisions, right? Well, sort of. It turns out for many failed...
by Art Petty | Apr 8, 2018 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
My favorite work involves sharing ideas with emerging leaders on the realities and challenges of leading in an environment of volatility and ambiguity. In a recent setting with a diverse group of early-career and first-time managers, we worked together to create a...
by Art Petty | Mar 18, 2018 | Art of Managing, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
There are certain cringe-promoting phrases in our organizational lives, and, “I’ve got an open door policy” just gives me the heebie-jeebies. While I suspect some manager somewhere means good by it, I’ve watched too many managers misuse, abuse, and outright lie about...
