by Art Petty | Jul 17, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I hear the same doubt expressed over and over again by good people upset over conditions in their workplace. It sounds something like: “Can I really make a difference? I’m just one person.” The often unspoken trailer is: “…and I am not the CEO or a senior executive,...
by Art Petty | Jun 6, 2016 | Career, Leadership Caffeine, Project Management
As I mention in the video below, an off-hand comment from my brilliant webmaster, Bob, at DigiSage, gave life to the collection of essays in Leadership Caffeine—Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development. While Bob’s idea turned out to be a lot of work in...
by Art Petty | Jun 5, 2016 | Art of Managing, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
A good number of decisions in business (and life) include choices that beg selecting the least bad option. Do we pull in that big deal with a discount incentive to dress up this quarter’s poor numbers and in the process, create a hole for the next quarter? Do we go...
by Art Petty | May 9, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Every person who has spent any significant amount of time in a management role has encountered at least one employee from that warm place, and I am not talking about Phoenix. The best of the worst are master manipulators who work within the system confounding attempts...
by Art Petty | Apr 24, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
A coaching client—the CEO of a successful software firm—was struggling to help his firm navigate a critical transition to a new strategy. He was forcing his actions, leading by command, and generating stress and strife in his wake. After listening to the comments of...
