by Art Petty | May 16, 2021 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Self-Development, Strategy, The Leadership Opportunity
You can’t lead effectively without transparency. You can’t lead at all without accountability. Can Your Team Members Answer These Eight Questions Confidently? What do you stand for? What do we stand for? Where are we? Where are we going? How will we get...
by Art Petty | Feb 9, 2020 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
There’s little debate over the importance of trust between individuals on a team and with the team’s leader. Without trust, high-performance is just a lofty ideal but not likely. And developing trust demands forming relationships. It’s the relationship-issue that is...
by Art Petty | Mar 25, 2019 | Challenging Conversations, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
At the time, I had no idea how to respond to the feedback: “You need to show your team you’re not a machine.” “Huh?” I was a first-time manager with two years in the role. And, I had been operating with a very wrong sense of what my job was. It took a...
by Art Petty | Jan 21, 2018 | Art of Managing, Just One Thing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Liberating is an odd word to associate with the idea of accountability in the workplace. At least it is until you’ve worked in an environment where accountability is enforced like patronage jobs in Chicago are dispensed—unfairly, unevenly, and directly related to the...
by Art Petty | Apr 6, 2017 | Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership
The term, Shifting Baseline Syndrome, is used to describe the acceptance of changes in baseline measures in a system over time. This syndrome masks or distorts reality. An ecologist who takes key measures of an ecosystem at one point and time and references those as...
