by Art Petty | Oct 8, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
I have an allergic reaction to the gravitational pull of the status quo when it masquerades as conventional wisdom. Too often, leaders and managers reduce complex and emerging situations to an algorithm developed for another time and set of variables. It’s a...
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 | Sep 10, 2017 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
High performance in an organization or with a project team is never an accident. There’s a blending of the right ingredients at the right time. There’s a catalyst somewhere in the process, and much like that favorite meal mom used to prepare on your birthday, there’s...
by Art Petty | Aug 1, 2017 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Strategy
There is no strategy without leadership courage. Strategy by definition demands asking and answering the hard, existential, foundation-shattering questions that create sleepless nights and stomach distress. And then comes the decision-making part, where courage gets a...
by Art Petty | Jul 22, 2017 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Strategy
From long experiencing working both sides of the strategy table (as an executive and now as a consultant), I know that no one size or no one framework works for all situations. Adding to the complexity of navigating strategy, there are a large number of strategy...
by Art Petty | May 8, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Strategy
Imagine this day: Your interactions with employees and peers are all positive. Your team’s latest results are solid. The performance indicators are all pointing in the right direction, foreshadowing more great results in the near-term. Heck, you even talked with a...
