by Art Petty | Sep 5, 2023 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation, Think Differently
Why I Love September for the Back-to-Learning Feeling It’s funny how the cycle of our earlier lives carries through into our later years. For my entire life, I’ve loved the back-to-school time of the year. I still focus my post-Labor-Day schedule on kicking off new...
by Art Petty | Jul 25, 2023 | Art of Managing, Career, Just One Thing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups, Self-Development, Think Differently
It’s a Crisis When My Idea Machine Grinds to a Halt Like many of you, ideas are my stock in trade. Whether writing the next article, designing a new workshop or course, providing strategy advisory services for a client, or supporting my coaching clients, I have...
by Art Petty | Jul 21, 2023 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Strategy, The Leadership Opportunity, Think Differently
It’s the perfect time in our world to vanquish the long-perpetuated and unproductive myth that leaders are somehow meaningfully different from managers. This distinction—perpetuated mainly by consultants and academics puts the practice of leadership on a...
by Art Petty | Jul 17, 2023 | Career, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Power-Ups, Self-Development, Think Differently
In a recent Leadership Caffeine Jam Session, I asked, “How do you react if your boss suggests you will benefit by engaging a coach?” The feedback was largely positive. Most of the responses were in the neighborhood of “That would be great,” or...
by Art Petty | Jul 10, 2023 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Think Differently
Leadership Indecency is an admittedly awkward, uncommon phrase. I like it. It’s the perfect phrase to describe the many amoral examples and practices of leadership we encounter in our organizations and institutions. Sadly, these practices are curable if WE stop...
by Art Petty | Jun 25, 2023 | Art of Managing, Just One Thing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Self-Development, Think Differently
Sorry, S.M.A.R.T. Goals, But Your Day is Over OK, a confession: I wanted to title this article something like “Why Your S.M.A.R.T. Goals are Dumb, but my topic is a bit more expansive than just my disdain for that all-too-present and limiting corporate approach...
