by Art Petty | Dec 30, 2018 | Career, Challenging Conversations, First Time Manager Series, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Strategy
For a change in the new year, skip the long list of resolutions save one—commit to engaging in a bit of open, positive rebellion at work or in your career. Navigated properly, you’ll be surprised how rebelling by changing your thinking and approach(es) might just...
by Art Petty | Aug 19, 2018 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Good managers work hard at pushing fear out of the workplace. Yet, even in the healthiest of organizations, fear’s close cousin, anxiety, worms its way into our consciousness and governs how we process and react to the idea of change and each other. Skilled change...
by Art Petty | Dec 6, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, Just One Thing, Leadership
I listen to managers for a living. Some are experienced managers—executives responsible for guiding large groups or the entire organization. Others are a bit less seasoned, including wide-eyed first-time managers excited to change the world but still uncertain how to...
by Art Petty | Feb 19, 2017 | Leadership, Strategy
I’ve always enjoyed time-travel stories. What if in business, we could travel ahead in time to see our mistakes and then go back and correct them and change the future for the better? While Einstein and others suggest it is impossible, I beg to differ. In the...
by Art Petty | Oct 7, 2016 | Career, Leadership, Strategy
In an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “McDonald’s Knows It’s Losing the Burger Battle—Can it Come Back,” the chief executive suggests, “the company is trying new things and rethinking legacy beliefs.” That sounds like a...