by Art Petty | Feb 4, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Strategy
The next time you get to the end of the roll of paper towels, instead of immediately throwing the cardboard tube into the recycling bin, channel your inner kid and put it up to your eye and use it as an imaginary telescope. Admit it, you did it. We all did. Wrapping...
by Art Petty | Mar 3, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
“Ideas are easy; doing stuff is hard.” –Seth Godin and “Innovation and creativity are emergent, not causal properties of teamwork.” –Jim Highsmith. Ideas in the workplace that are voiced but never vetted or pursued are the corporate equivalent of those brilliant...
by Art Petty | Apr 9, 2012 | Leadership Caffeine
We tend to love our life and work routines. They are comfortable and comforting. In the workplace, “creating routines” almost seems to be the goal for some managers. It’s an attempt to bring order to our little corner of the organization. Managers do management things...
by Art Petty | Mar 21, 2012 | Leadership Caffeine Podcast
After a brief hiatus, the Leadership Caffeine podcast is back! I’m excited to be on the air again and I’m excited about the great line-up of experts, authors and executives ready to share their big ideas! Speaking of big ideas, there’s no one better...
by Art Petty | Feb 1, 2011 | Decision-Making
Note from Art: there are many forms of ideation and all sorts of new tools available to facilitate web-based and remote brainstorming. The same issue in this post applies regardless of method: what are you going to do with the output? Imagine yourself in the following...
