by Art Petty | Feb 27, 2009 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Project Management
One of the great things about leading workshops with talented professionals is how much I learn about the very real challenges that people face in trying to get work done inside their organizations. I had the great privilege of facilitating a workshop called Leader...
by Art Petty | Jan 30, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leading Change, Project Management
One of the things that I love about what I do as a speaker/trainer/educator is that I get to work with a lot of great people genuinely concerned about their development and the development and improvement of their organizations. As I continue on my career respite from...
by Art Petty | Jan 6, 2009 | Leadership, Project Management, Strategy
It is well established that wearing a bicycle helmet significantly reduces your chance of head injury should you fall. It’s also not a big leap to acknowledge that texting while driving is an open invitation to an accident. If you quit texting, put your hands on the...
by Art Petty | Dec 9, 2008 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Project Management
Author and consultant Gary Hamel writes in the preface to his latest book, The Future of Management, that, “Management is out of date. Like the combustion engine, it’s a technology that has largely stopped evolving and that’s not good.” Hamel challenges leaders and...
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 | Nov 24, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Project Management, Strategy
I’ve danced with this topic before (Struggling with Strategy? Think Project Management), and the more experience that I gain helping clients improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their strategic planning and execution program development activities through...