by Art Petty | Apr 30, 2009 | Career, Marketing, Product Management, Project Management
A fact of life in our world is that you will inevitably face the prospect of having to reinvent your professional self. For many this is a daunting task that gets put off along with getting in shape, painting the house and writing a book. The dream is nice, but the...
by Art Petty | Apr 24, 2009 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management
Whether you are a first-time leader, an experienced manager taking over a new team or an informal leader such as a project or product manager, you will be as successful as you are credible. Your credibility is your professional bedrock. Build on it carefully and...
by Art Petty | Apr 3, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management
Note from Art: at least part of this post was prompted by some truly brilliant product managers interacting on twitter. The true-life career horror story is all my own! One of my greatest career misfires was accepting a role in a firm where I had failed to...
by Art Petty | Mar 29, 2009 | Career, Leadership Caffeine, Project Management
A healthy spring snowstorm blanketed the northwest suburbs of Chicago overnight, making the morning cup of coffee particularly relevant as a source of both warmth and energy. I’m back with a fresh pound of my favorite fair trade Mexican Roast from a great local...
by Art Petty | Mar 11, 2009 | Career, Project Management
I love to talk with people that have led or been part of a high performance team (HPT). Their enthusiasm is palpable. These individuals have been to the promised land of corporate collaboration and achievement for a brief period in time and they are interested in...
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...
