by Art Petty | Apr 2, 2008 | Project Management, Strategy
"It’s a dirty little secret: Most executives cannot articulate the objective, scope, and advantage of their business in a simple statement. If they can’t, neither can anyone else," indicate David J. Colliss and Michael G. Rukstad in the opening of their...
by Art Petty | Mar 20, 2008 | Leadership, Project Management, Strategy
Traditional strategic planning approaches often fail to deliver the results that firms require to jump start growth or pull out of a sustained decline. Legacy approaches emphasize a periodic focus on strategy—often an annual refresh against a long-range...
by Art Petty | Mar 12, 2008 | Project Management, Strategy
Note: With this post, I am adding the category of Project Management to my areas of coverage. Most organizations struggle with strategy. It’s hard work, it requires a lot of cooperation across functions and it takes incredible discipline to implement, monitor...
by Art Petty | Feb 3, 2008 | Leadership, Strategy
In an earlier post (Is Your Organization Strategy-Fueled or Strategy-Starved?), I introduced a set of simple diagnostic questions to help gauge a firm’s relative maturity around leadership and strategy. In my own experience with this informal tool, most...
by Art Petty | Jan 25, 2008 | Leadership, Strategy
(The following is a figment of my imagination only and any resemblance to anyone living, dead or otherwise is purely accidental. I had a horrible consultant’s dream the other night, where I found myself shouted down in a planning session when I had the temerity to...
by Art Petty | Jan 14, 2008 | Leadership, Strategy
A good friend that knows my passion for all things leadership, recently switched jobs and offered some comments on the nature of his dozen or so interviews. I paraphrase: My leadership skills, experience or approach were not discussed during any of the...
