by Art Petty | Dec 8, 2024 | Moving to the Role of Manager, Uncategorized
One of the new(er) managers’ most significant mistakes is thinking and acting as if their role is mostly about showing they are super contributors. I run into this regularly with smart people—experts in their field—who assume their primary job is to be that...
by Art Petty | Jun 12, 2022 | Art of Managing, Career, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Self-Development, The Leadership Opportunity, Think Differently
I’m always intrigued when my original article, Six Big Reasons Why You’ll Love the Role of Manager, shows up at the top of my most-read list. It gratifies me that people are finding this article, yet I don’t know whether they’re clicking on it...
by Art Petty | Jan 1, 2021 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Self-Development
If you are either considering the move from contributor to a manager or you are responsible for developing new managers on your team, here are four actions you can take to improve the odds of success. 1. Promoting Managers Must Have “The Talk” with the Aspiring...
by Art Petty | May 6, 2019 | Art of Managing, Career, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
Succeed wildly as a front-line or first-time manager, and chances are good you’ll wake up one day and head to work and learn that everything has changed again. The disorienting promotion to manager of managers is one that receives less coverage than the plight...
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...
