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

by Art Petty | Jun 3, 2010 | Challenging Conversations, Uncategorized

3 Tips for Curing Watchmaker Syndrome 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...

The Case of the Rapidly Shrinking Attention Span

by Art Petty | Jan 28, 2009 | Career, Leadership

I wrote a post last year entitled, “Yeah, Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply,” prompted by an article in Harvard Business Review.  Judging by the posted comments as well as the e-mails that I received, the notion that we seem to almost discourage...

Living, Learning and Leading in an Increasingly Virtual World

by Art Petty | Jul 25, 2008 | Uncategorized

Somewhere between the world I grew up in and the world that we are living in today, everything about working, leading and learning began to change.  It’s increasingly a virtual world, and everything about communicating, interacting and developing relationships...

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