by Art Petty | Mar 5, 2024 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Bottom Line Up Front: Not every day in your life as a leader is a party complete with cake and ice cream. When you encounter one of those days where everything seems to be working against you, it’s time to force a smile and keep marching. By the way, your team...
by Art Petty | Sep 26, 2021 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups, Self-Development, The Leadership Opportunity, Think Differently
You aren’t a leader until people know who you are and why they should follow you. People comply with the title. They follow the person. While many individuals deliberately keep their work personas and their personal personas separate, I checked, and each of us is one...
by Art Petty | Feb 23, 2020 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, The Leadership Opportunity
Here’s a little secret. When I use the phrase “emerging leader,” I’m talking about all of us. You’re never done learning to lead. Some of us are a bit more experienced, and others are more effective than others, yet even at retirement, the job of learning to lead is...
by Art Petty | Dec 31, 2017 | Just One Thing, Leadership, Leadership Power-Ups
It’s hard to resist the feeling of personal and professional rebirth that comes with the passing of one year into another. A fresh start is cathartic and motivating. Of course, as anyone who has resolved to change and failed by February knows, this feeling is fleeting...
by Art Petty | Aug 20, 2017 | Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I’ve long been accused of conflating the roles of manager and leader. I admit to not giving a rat’s rear over the mostly academic and consultant-perpetuated myth of manager equals bad or small or narrow-minded and leader equals good. It’s a false dichotomy that...
