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Leadership Caffeine™—Rethinking Your Team’s Business Reviews and Operating Approach

While I’ve not attended your business review session, I can tell you with confidence born of experience that most of these events are painful time, productivity, and morale killers. And, in this world where COVID has taught us that quarters are like centuries and the world shifts in hours and days, I increasingly find the ubiquitous quarterly business reviews anachronistic. It's time to change your team's operating approach.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:14:01-05:00July 25th, 2021|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™— Success Demands Unity of Purpose

What we want as leaders is deep immersion from our team members. Yet, our systems, numbers, and approaches mainly generate transactional involvement. They lack unity of purpose.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:14:02-05:00July 18th, 2021|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Is There a Leadership Reset Button?

Are there leadership do-overs? The answer is a firm, "It depends." In this article, I share the circumstances where it is appropriate to hit your Leadership Reset Button and I offer guidance for succeeding with this important work.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:09:21-05:00July 11th, 2021|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Get Better Daily

Developing as a leader doesn’t follow a straight line. It’s different for every individual. Focus on getting better at this job daily. Here are five ideas to help you jump-start this good work.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:09:26-05:00June 27th, 2021|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Focus on What Matters

Your real battle as a leader is the one for your focus. It's a battle too many lose. It's imperative you figure out what matters and then focus. Learn to feed the mission, not the machine.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:05:31-05:00May 24th, 2021|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—A One Line Job Description for Managers

If you manage, lead, or are otherwise responsible for the work of others, the working environment is everything. Creating a healthy working environment is literally your only job. Get this right and the results take care of themselves.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:05:32-05:00May 2nd, 2021|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Small Changes in Your Routine and Approaches Can Generate Big Results

I regularly talk with managers and leaders who believe they are grinding harder but getting nowhere. One described himself as working in quicksand: "The more hours I spend and the harder I push, the faster we are sinking. I need to do something different." Raise your hand if you’ve ever felt this way. Here are ideas to help you adjust your approaches and regain control:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:09:35-05:00April 5th, 2021|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Six Steps to Help You Start Strong with Your New Team

The point in time when you step into a new leadership role is simultaneously exciting and uncomfortable. Your start-up as the new boss is the early-awkward phase for everyone involved. Here are six steps to help you start strong with your new team:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:05:36-05:00March 1st, 2021|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Here’s Where You Should Slow Down to Move Faster

It's easy to swallow the dogma that has emerged around the "Cult of Speed" in our management thinking and teaching. Yet, the pursuit of speed in poorly designed systems exposes weaknesses and often precipitates project, strategy, and even organizational failure. Said simply, raw speed kills. Sometimes you have to tap the brakes and slow down to ultimately move faster.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:10:04-05:00January 24th, 2021|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—5 Things You Can Do to Help Navigate the Crisis

We place extraordinary amounts of pressure on our leaders to solve the big problems in front of us. In reality, they don't have the answers. They are looking for individuals to provide ideas that point to solutions. Here are five ideas you can use today to help and start leading without authority:

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:10:22-05:00October 18th, 2020|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments