by Art Petty | Jan 10, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Most senior leaders lack any form of an honest, effective and timely feedback loop, and when they succumb to the pressures of the role and begin to flail, things can go bad in a hurry. While I’m a huge fan of adapting the “Swim Buddy” technique used by Navy SEALS to...
by Art Petty | Jan 3, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
What are the obstacles in front of your team and how hard are you working at knocking them down? Chances are you can and should be working harder at this critical task. A number of years ago, I was responsible for the product and marketing activities of a prototype...
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...
