by Art Petty | Dec 21, 2015 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
If you’ve ever worked incredibly hard only to have something run off the rails or just not generate the results you were after, you understand what an imbalance in the Efforts-to-Results ratio feels like. I recall rankling at a college writing instructor who gave me a...
by Art Petty | Dec 6, 2015 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
There’s a lot of happy talk in books, on blogs and in articles about leaders and leading. From revisionist histories of yesterday’s great CEO warriors to the feel-good advice that is so eagerly consumed by the masses of workers yearning for liberation from the tyranny...
by Art Petty | Nov 29, 2015 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Fair warning—watch out ahead for excessive use of alliteration and the massacre of more than a few innocent metaphors. — What I really wanted to call this post was, “Quit Acting Like a Hyper-Rooster.” It’s much more visual, and after all, does anyone really want...
by Art Petty | Nov 23, 2015 | Leadership Caffeine
Grit is a good word. It’s an even better trait. You know what grit is when you see it. It’s that grind-it-out sticktoitiveness in the face of adversity displayed by individuals long on character and short on “I can’t” Grit is my mother facing her cancer with courage...
by Art Petty | Nov 15, 2015 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Product Management, Strategy
The Leadership Caffeine™ series is intended to make you think and act. — A dialog between Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in “A Scandal in Bohemia,” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: “The distinction is clear. For example, you have frequently seen the steps which lead...
