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It’s Your Career—Strengthening Your Perceptual Acuity

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:24:28-05:00April 1st, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

From Art Petty, writing at the Management Excellence blog: The ability to see around corners or, see over the horizon, are two phrases that relate directly to the idea of perceptual acuity. While we’re barred by physical faculties from literally achieving those feats of optical gymnastics, as professionals, we are accountable for attempting to translate the external noise from our customers, our competitors, the new developments in technology and the many other forces propelling our world and our industries and then making decisions to either exploit opportunities or mitigate risks. Those who do this successfully…great strategists, product managers, management teams, entrepreneurs and innovators of all kinds, strive to see patterns and opportunities where the rest of us might see randomness. Here are 5 ideas to help you strengthen your professional acuity:

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Leading the Project? Define Your Charter to Support High Performance

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:24:30-05:00March 27th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

It’s hard to argue with either of these statements, nonetheless, too many project managers deeply skilled in the mechanics of their vocation fall short on learning and practicing the soft-skills critical for high performance team development. When project fail...and too many do, there's a safe bet that people-related issues are key contributors to the initiative's demise. Great project managers define their role beyond the project mechanics liberally. Here are 7 steps to help you define and begin using your own Project Leader's Charter in pursuit of high performance:

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The Importance of Exercising Your Core-4 Professional Muscle Groups

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:24:33-05:00March 24th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Our core body muscles groups…those muscles in your pelvis, lower back and abdomen all work in harmony to provide stability and to help propel us through our daily lives. A strong core is critical to long-term fitness health and stability, while a weak core leaves us susceptible to muscle injuries, lower back pain and other muscle-related maladies. Much like our physical core, there’s a set of professional core muscles that require on-going exercise and development for optimum health. These include...

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Leadership Caffeine™—What to Do When You Grow Fatigued

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:24:36-05:00February 15th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Much of our common dialog around leadership focuses on the lofty and noble. That’s good and appropriate. After all there are some remarkable opportunities for growth and reward in the life of a conscientious leader. Why then is it so damned exhausting to serve as a leader? And better yet, how does someone entering the power dive of leadership fatigue find a way to pull out and continue serving enthusiastically in pursuit of the noble? Here are 10 idea to help you recover and recharge from a case of Leadership Fatigue:

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New Leader Tuesday—Learning to Adapt Your Approach to Individuals

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:24:48-05:00January 6th, 2015|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

You will cultivate a leadership style over time…in large part by learning from trial and error. You can accelerate the learning process and improve your effectiveness by remembering to adapt your interaction style to the behaviors and preferences of others, while never compromising your commitment to fairness, your firm’s values or your obligation to drive results.

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Helping the Senior Management Team Find Its Voice

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:24:52-05:00December 16th, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

I’m convinced one of the key limiting factors of management team effectiveness is the discomfort these high-powered functional experts have in talking with each other. While there are few quiet senior management team meetings, the words exchanged tend to be more about functional updates and carefully worded ideas or collegial debate over direction or investments than they are about the real issues confronting the firm. Here are 5 blocking and tackling ideas to help senior executives strengthen their communication effectiveness as a team:

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Leadership Caffeine™—Your Critical Personal Performance Questions

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:24:53-05:00December 14th, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

An early career mentor offered this comment and it has been with me in one form or another throughout my career: “If you’re sleeping through the night, you’re not thinking hard enough about your job and career and you’re definitely not asking yourself the tough questions.” While I encourage a full night’s rest…we all need quality sleep to perform at our best, the second half of his advice on asking (and answering) the tough questions of ourselves is spot on. Here are at least 11 sets of challenging questions that only you can ask and answer for yourself:

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Leadership Caffeine™—Is that Employee Not Right or Not Ready?

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:02-05:00November 3rd, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

We all know that getting the right people in the right seats is a prerequisite for success. The problem comes in truly assessing whether the individual is Not Ready or Not Right for the role. Here are 4 reasons why we often fail to recognize the "Not Right" characters and 5 ideas to help you deal with this dilemma:

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Level-Up #2—Reality Check for the New Vice President

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:04-05:00October 12th, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

There are few more simultaneously exciting and disorienting experiences in your professional life than your initial promotion to a corporate position as vice president of something. Here are 4 very real facts of life for you in your new role and some thoughts about what to do about them:

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Leadership Caffeine™—Why Should Anyone Trust You to Lead?

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:25:54-05:00August 24th, 2014|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Seriously, why is it that someone or some group should trust you to lead? From long experience and ample input from thousands of professionals, here are 5 big credibility killers and 5 big leadership credibility builders:

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