by Art Petty | Mar 3, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
One of the themes that I hear consistently in workshops and in discussions with the professionals in my MBA classes is frustration over the propensity of a firm’s leaders to never say “No” to a project. Lacking a viable mechanism to compare, evaluate and select and...
by Art Petty | Feb 17, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Management Innovation, Product Management
Note from Art: this post came about through my on-going research with a colleague into best organizational practices in product management and product manager career development. For additional information on this topic, check out my recent podcast interview with...
by Art Petty | Jan 22, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Product Management
Three suggested links for busy professionals: Book Review: Outliers: For a thoughtful review of Malcolm Gladwell’s, Outliers, check out Wally Bock’s recent post at Three Star Leadership. This latest effort from Gladwell, the author of Blink and The Tipping Point...
by Art Petty | Dec 21, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Marketing, Product Management
Note from Art: this distinctly non-holiday post couldn’t wait for a better time. There’s no time like the present for leaders and managers to be thinking deeply about their businesses and the road ahead. Dr. Deming once stated that he hoped one of his life’s...
by Art Petty | Dec 2, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Marketing, Product Management, Project Management
I suspect that most readers will agree that examples of management excellence, high performance and great leadership are not the topics dominating the news in this emerging “we’ve never seen anything like this before” economy. Instead, we are fed a constant stream of...
by Art Petty | Oct 2, 2008 | Decision-Making, Marketing, Product Management, Strategy
Students of business history might recognize the quote above as coming from Henry Ford, the founder of Ford Motor Company and one of the early management innovators. Mr. Ford’s quote raises a profound issue of when and how to listen to customers, or perhaps the...
