by Art Petty | Feb 22, 2021 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series
Moving from contributor to manager is one of the most awkward transitions a person will undertake in their working life. It’s an unnatural act, where you take almost everything you know about success in your day job and push it over into the “Never...
by Art Petty | Oct 18, 2019 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
In my article, New Manager Development—Put Your Back Into It, I implore promoting managers to get and remain involved as they move their best and brightest contributors into this challenging and often confounding job. My perspective: “Too often, competent...
by Art Petty | Feb 24, 2019 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership Power-Ups, Management Innovation, The Leadership Opportunity
Once you’ve reached the level of managing managers on your team, your professional development focus shifts considerably. Historically, your emphasis was on supporting the performance and growth of contributors. That’s good, meaningful work, but fundamentally...
by Art Petty | Sep 17, 2018 | Art of Managing, Career, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership
During college, I worked a variety of manual labor jobs inside factories to earn much-needed money for the upcoming school year. For one of the more physically demanding jobs, the foreman could regularly be heard shouting at the workers “Put your back into...
