by Art Petty | Oct 17, 2011 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Project Management, Strategy
We’re so focused on speed in our organization, that we’ve become remarkably competent at creating problems faster. Somewhere on the way to this world we now live and work in, “speed” became a proxy for success. Speed is undoubtedly important, but beware relying on...
by Art Petty | Aug 24, 2011 | Career, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management
When chatting with leadership author and expert, John Baldoni, on the Leadership Caffeine Podcast (published on itunes last week), I asked him which of his books was his favorite. I loved his response…”The one I’m working on now.” I’m just a few weeks away from...
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 | May 18, 2011 | Leadership, Project Management
“I have no question that when you have a team, the possibility exists that it will generate magic, producing something extraordinary… But don’t count on it.” -J. Richard Hackman with Diane Cotu, Why Teams Don’t Work, HBR (article requires...
by Eric Rodriguez | May 13, 2011 | Career, Project Management
Note from Art: Eric Rodriguez is the voice of The Millennial View here at Management Excellence. His periodic posts offer insights from early career professionals seeking to navigate their way through this challenging world. Nobody is perfect and everyone has a...
by Art Petty | Apr 4, 2011 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Project Management
Rule #17: If the flak is heavy, you’re near the target. (No flak, no target.) From Management Lessons of the Memphis Belle copyright: Eric Lieberman and Paul Byrne I’ve yet to accomplish anything worth a damn when I didn’t have a fair number of critics lined up and...
