by Art Petty | Jul 8, 2010 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Project Management, Strategy
Groupthink is one of the nefarious decision-making missteps of teams, and a trap that many smart people and groups have fallen victim to throughout history. From the classic example cited in nearly every discussion on decision-making, the Kennedy administration’s Bay...
by Art Petty | May 28, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Project Management
It’s increasingly likely that you will spend a good deal of your professional time working on temporary teams. It’s also likely that you will experience a fair amount of frustration and even team failure along the way. Most organizations have yet to meet a problem...
by Art Petty | May 24, 2010 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Project Management
Some leaders move through their days like a flat rock skipping over the surface of a pond. They are focused on personal efficiency and speed, and the faster they move and the more decisions that they make, the better they believe they are doing as leaders. Their days...
by Art Petty | May 11, 2010 | Leadership, Project Management
As a long-time, self-described zealot for the importance of project managers developing as leaders, imagine how excited I was to learn about a conference devoted to just this topic! I’ve written at length in this blog (Learning to Lead in the Project Focused World and...
by Art Petty | May 5, 2010 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Project Management, Strategy
Jocelyn R. Davis and Tom Atkinson offer some compelling thoughts on strategy in their article, “Need Speed? Slow Down,” in the May, 2010 Harvard Business Review. They describe the concept of strategic speed as one of reducing the time it takes to create...
by Art Petty | Apr 16, 2010 | Career, Project Management
Note from Art: this is a public service post for anyone in a classroom anywhere that is on the hook for a group project. MBA students and undergraduates, please pay particular attention. If you know someone that might benefit from the guidance, please pass this...
