by Art Petty | Jun 13, 2023 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Self-Development
Developing as a manager is a perpetual exercise in leveling up. Just when you think you’ve developed some competence at the role and are asked to take on more responsibilities, WHAM, you hit the wall of new, ambiguous challenges. In my work as an executive and...
by Art Petty | May 6, 2021 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Management Innovation, Self-Development
Managing is hard work for so many reasons. From the challenges of dealing with people and personalities to the never-ending, ever-growing lists of things to do, often with conflicting priorities, it’s a tough job. Yet, when I explore the stress points with struggling...
by Art Petty | May 3, 2020 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Product Management, Project Management
In Search of Unicorns and High-Performance Teams Anyone who has been on a team they might reasonably describe as “high-performance” understands how rare these experiences are in the workplace. In my informal polling in workshops and other programs, less...
by Art Petty | Oct 18, 2019 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
In my article, New Manager Development—Put Your Back Into It, I implore promoting managers to get and remain involved as they move their best and brightest contributors into this challenging and often confounding job. My perspective: “Too often, competent...
by Art Petty | Jun 24, 2019 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The work of new manager development in our organizations is mostly messy. If you’re the new manager, that’s a problem. Ditto for the promoting manager. Too often we thrust our best and brightest individual contributors into this role expecting they’ll...
