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It’s Summer on My Calendar-Friday Shorts are Back!

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:38:59-05:00June 4th, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

I don’t care that my calendar marks a day later in June as the official start of Summer. Memorial Day has passed, the temperature and humidity in Chicago are rising and tennis with my sons is a regular evening activity. Oh, and the list of outside chores is now long enough to choke the proverbial horse. (Note: no horses were choked in the writing of this post.) Given the shift in seasons, I’m excited to bring back my Shorts feature here every Friday from June until the end of August. I'll offer up suggested business beach reads, a resource of the week and I'll point you to some Leadership Tips that you might have missed. Enjoy!

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If the Boss Asks You the Time, Don’t Tell Her How to Build a Watch

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:39:02-05:00June 3rd, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Just about everyone knows someone that never got the memo on how to get to the point in conversations. I warmly reference these people in my mind as Watchmakers. Instead of giving you the time of day when you ask for it, they tell you in painful detail how to build the watch. While command of detail is impressive, the need to share it with everyone that you come in contact with can be debilitating to your career.

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Have You Been Observed Recently?

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:39:03-05:00June 2nd, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Professional sports teams and great athletes have long understood the power of watching game film to learn about themselves as well as the strategies and tendencies of their opponents. Aside from professional speakers, few of us in business benefit from either viewing ourselves in action on film, and sadly too few of us benefit from good feedback and mentoring from our managers and colleagues.

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Leadership Caffeine™: 3 Ideas for Sharpening Your Skills

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:40:01-05:00May 3rd, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Fresh from a weekend of rediscovering the lawn and gardening muscles that clearly took the winter off, I found myself happy that I was able to quickly access freshly sharpened, well-oiled tools. As any good tradesman or craftsman (or weekend gardener) will tell you, there is no substitute for the right tool, properly maintained, when you need it. The same goes for leaders.

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Leadership Caffeine™: For a Change, Look At What’s Working

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:40:04-05:00April 26th, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Consider these common refrains from two different leaders:Leader 1: “That’s great! Congratulations! How do we do more of that?” Leader 2: “That’s broken and we need to fix it right away.” We have all met both of these characters. One sees opportunity and achievement and building blocks everywhere she looks and the other sees flaws and problems that need fixing. And while you are free to accuse me of making a hasty generalization here, my “blink” assessment of the two is that I want to hire or work for Leader #1

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Leadership Caffeine™-It’s Time to Frame Your Professional Positioning Strategy

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:40:08-05:00April 19th, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

What do peers and managers perceive is unique about you in the workplace? What do you do so well, so uniquely that makes people stop and take notice? What’s your personal positioning strategy that meaningfully differentiates you from others in the minds of your customers, managers and stakeholders? You’re to be excused if you need to reach for another cup of coffee while you contemplate these “brand called me” questions that you likely only think about once every two years when you update your resume.

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My New Project: Leadership Caffeine™-The Book

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:40:09-05:00April 18th, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

My long list of life-goals includes a few that are underlined and even circled to connote priority. Write one book per year is one of those that is double-underlined, circled and highlighted for emphasis. It’s high time that I quit thinking about this personal and professional Big Hairy Audacious Goal, and started executing. So, after too much thought and not enough work, I am excited to make public my next project: Leadership Caffeine-The Book. (Expect the title to evolve a bit.)

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It Takes Time and Experience to Find Your Leadership Voice

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:40:17-05:00March 24th, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

As an early career leader, you have little depth or breadth in your leadership voice. You struggle or at least strive to be relevant to your team members and your organization, and many flail in the process. Over time as you gain experience, learn and build confidence, a complex leadership personality begins to emerge. This is what those around you will take as your style, but you know that it is much more than an outward fashion statement. It’s who you are as a person that also happens to serve as a leader.

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Beware Contracting “I’m Right, You’re Wrong” Disease?

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:40:26-05:00March 3rd, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

It’s time to add another malady to the long list of things that bedevil the many lousy leaders walking unencumbered through our workplaces. It’s called, “I’m Right and You’re Wrong” (IRYW) disease, and while it’s not fatal, it’s clearly annoying to people and debilitating to performance.

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Team Stuck in the Creativity Deep Freeze? Try “Why Not?” to Start the Thaw

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:40:43-05:00January 27th, 2010|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Without exception, the healthiest businesses that I work with are those that offer a workplace environment and atmosphere that encourages a free-flow of ideas ranging from outlandish to “I can’t believe we didn’t think of that before.” It is the part of the natural culture of the firm to think in terms of “What if?” and “Why not?” Alternatively, the less than healthy firms that I encounter share many failure attributes, including a complete dearth of creativity and visible creativity-inducing practices and processes. What should you do if you are called upon to help jump-start the creativity culture where the creative processes have gone into deep-freeze?

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