by Art Petty | Apr 10, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The words around leadership are well covered. The definitions are complete and the behaviors have been described over and over again by countless authors. There’s very little new to be said about what leadership IS. There is however a great deal to be said about how...
by Art Petty | Mar 20, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The hardest work of leading you’ll ever do is not the coaching, problem-solving, communicating and other externally focused activities that occupy your days. Rather, the heavy lifting of creating success as a leader goes on in the space between your ears. It’s...
by Art Petty | Feb 29, 2016 | Leadership Caffeine
As a business speaker, I talk to groups a great deal about the issues of change. From navigating the business and industry impacting change created by advancements in technology and the obsolescence of older business approaches, to the more personal issue of how to...
by Art Petty | Feb 21, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Developing as a leader is a process punctuated by occasional events that test our progression and our character. Everything else is just practice. I had an interesting discussion with a long retired former executive just a few months before his passing. You would have...
by Art Petty | Feb 14, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The title of this post is drawn from the book, “Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win,” by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin. These warrior heroes do an outstanding job relating the lessons from life or death circumstances to our significantly safer corporate...
