by Art Petty | Jul 23, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Curiosity doesn’t get much airplay when it comes to the writing or speaking about leaders. That’s a shame, because it may be one of the most important attributes of leaders who succeed with their teams and businesses in our world of rapid change. Natural...
by Art Petty | Jun 26, 2017 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Imagine assembling a team of all-star professionals boasting great pedigrees of success to tackle a big, exciting expedition, and seeing them fall flat with sub-par performance. The disappointment is palpable, and if you’re the manager who assembled this team, the...
by Art Petty | May 8, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Strategy
Imagine this day: Your interactions with employees and peers are all positive. Your team’s latest results are solid. The performance indicators are all pointing in the right direction, foreshadowing more great results in the near-term. Heck, you even talked with a...
by Art Petty | Apr 3, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
If you live to be 75 years old, that’s 2.37 Gigaseconds. A relative blink of an eye. We all choose to invest our unknown allotment of time in different ways. Some strive for financial resources and others for significance. Some focus on creating and building. Others...
by Art Petty | Feb 12, 2017 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Our work lives are punctuated by awkward moments thrust upon us at various points in time. Any first day at a new job. Every last day at an old job. The day you learn your boss was fired. You liked this boss. Meeting your new boss at the firm buying your company. The...