by Art Petty | May 28, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Project Management
It’s increasingly likely that you will spend a good deal of your professional time working on temporary teams. It’s also likely that you will experience a fair amount of frustration and even team failure along the way. Most organizations have yet to meet a problem...
by Art Petty | Dec 11, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m way overdue to provide some thanks to a number of great people and organizations that I’ve worked with or that have supported me over this past year, and the deep freeze here in Chicago is no excuse for delaying this post any longer. Nor is the fact that I’m...
by Art Petty | Jun 25, 2009 | Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation
Many leaders are lousy collaborators. It doesn’t seem to matter that they spend a great deal of time encouraging, coaching and facilitating collaboration between their team members and across functional boundaries. When it comes time for Leader A to work with Leader B...
by Art Petty | Dec 23, 2008 | Leadership
My postings will slow to a dull roar over the holiday week as I focus on family as well as making progress on my Management Excellence podcast program. I didn’t want to leave my prior essay on Deming and the Failure of American Management as my last post before the...
by Art Petty | May 7, 2008 | Leadership
One of the most frequent questions that I get at seminars or workshops goes something like this: "Art, I’ve read your leadership book, I’ve listened to you in the workshop and I understand how important it is for me to put time into the development of...