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Leadership Caffeine™: Making Time to Glimpse the Future and Re-Think

As technology finally begins to catch up to our long-standing vision for how it can positively change our work lives and our businesses, it may just be time for us to rethink our stone-age approaches on how we work. If you’ve not pushed yourself to explore the new tools, and if you are responsible in some form or fashion for pushing the envelope on how your firm competes in the market, engages clients and arms its people to win, it might just be time to spend a few minutes focusing on the future.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:34:50-05:00April 11th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|10 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Coping with Workplace Critics

I’ve yet to accomplish anything worth a damn when I didn’t have a fair number of critics lined up and all too happy to tell me why I was out of my mind. It’s a fair bet you’ve seen this before as well. In my experience, the more audacious and creative the idea, program or strategy, the more vocal the critics become. Here are five ideas to help you cope with the worst of your workplace critics.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:34:53-05:00April 4th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|7 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Supporting the Rise of the Informal Leader

Want to know where to find your best and brightest emerging leaders? Here’s a hint, you’ll have to use your peripheral vision to see them, because they are moving sideways at a high rate of speed. Here are 7 ideas for cultivating Informal Leaders in your organization.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:34:57-05:00March 28th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|18 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™-The Artful and Effective Workplace Apology

The apology is an often over-looked and widely misunderstood tool for keeping smoldering bridges from burning out of control and for repairing relationships that were dented somewhere in the chaos of daily battle. It’s also a tool easily misused by people uncomfortable in their roles and seeking to buy compliance by apologizing their way forward.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:07-05:00March 14th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|10 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: When Leading is an Unnatural Act

One of the interesting outcomes I’ve observed when engaging truly thoughtful people in the process of understanding the role of a leader and the commitment required for success, is that some people decide it’s not a good fit. However, we don't make it easy for them to reach this conclusion.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:12-05:00March 8th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|15 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™-The Importance of Cultivating Your Influence

While your own level of influence might not be something that crosses your mind on a daily basis, your relative level of influence in your organization is at least one reasonable proxy for measuring your effectiveness as a leader.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:41-05:00February 28th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|6 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Time to Take out the 360-Degree Trash

Note: today's rave is brought to you by one too many conversations with frustrated managers and employees over their firm's evaluation systems. While I’m certain there’s a good 360-degree feedback program out there somewhere, the trash frequently heaped upon unwitting corporate victims by misguided management groups via their HR departments is….well, it’s trash. Please place it in a proper container and dispose of it before it starts to stink.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:44-05:00February 22nd, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|14 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™-Get it Right When Starting Up with Your New Team

Stepping into the role of new (to the team) leader for an existing team is a daunting task. It’s also a time rich in opportunity for everyone involved, if the new leader executes a proper start-up strategy and avoids the most common start-up pitfalls.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:49-05:00February 15th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|11 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Learn to Make Quick Connections

In a typical day fast moving day, there are dozens of small opportunities for leaders to make or strengthen connections with team members and peers. Effective leaders strive to leverage these fleeting moments or as golden opportunities to show respect, strengthen connections and even support coalition building. The trick is to execute a deliberate “connection” strategy throughout your day.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:53-05:00February 7th, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|16 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: 9 Ideas for Strengthening Your Self-Esteem

While typically not a topic discussed over coffee, many leaders struggle with issues of low self-esteem. They question their abilities to cope with the problems at hand, they often doubt they are worthy of the position of leadership they occupy, and they most definitely agonize quietly over much of their professional existence. Others manifest their low self-esteem with over-the-top aggressiveness and strong controlling behaviors. Here are 9 suggestions for helping rebuild your leader's self-esteem.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:35:57-05:00January 31st, 2011|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|9 Comments