by Art Petty | Apr 11, 2019 | Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leading Change, Project Management, Strategy
Black Holes, Missed Opportunities, and Alternate Universes Leading the sales efforts for multiple software firms throughout my career, one of the issues that kept me awake at night was the idea that there were deals out there we didn’t know about in spite of our...
by Art Petty | Aug 27, 2018 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Project Management, Strategy
I like curious leaders and managers, and I love curious employees. There’s something invigorating about working with individuals curious about what makes things work or why things are done the way they are. And there’s something exhilarating in bringing a program or...
by Art Petty | Oct 16, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Product Management, Project Management
For most of us in our workplaces, there’s no avoiding the presence of cross-functional teams. Too many of our projects and programs cross over departmental or divisional boundary lines to vanquish these groupings of often prickly, over-taxed individuals. And heck, the...
by Art Petty | Oct 13, 2017 | Art of Managing, Just One Thing, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management
“We’ll get this done. I’ll put a team on it.” In truth, there are far fewer teams in the workplace than the use of the term might have you believe. Mostly, we have groups. Or, we have collections of individuals driven by their calendars to show up at an appointed time...
by Art Petty | Sep 25, 2017 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Project Management, Strategy
Most strategy efforts, like most diets, fail. Or, at least they fail to create the predicted value. While there are plenty of opportunities to come to flawed conclusions about the world and to substitute half-measures or noble goals for real strategy, even if the...
by Art Petty | Mar 24, 2017 | Career, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
Imagine taking on the simultaneous equation of solving for strengthening your firm’s performance, while growing as a leader and learning to be at your best all of the time. Admittedly, those are lofty ambitions on their own, and akin to climbing Everest without...
