by Art Petty | Feb 4, 2013 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Intensity is a powerful leadership tool that when wielded with laser precision, can help focus, engage and inspire your team members. The art of using intensity as a leadership tool is finding the right balance between personal humility and professional will to ensure...
by Art Petty | Jan 6, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I love this quote in the January-February, 2013 issue of Harvard Business Review from a reader responding to an article on leadership that appeared several months earlier: “Leadership is not something that is gained because of birth or tenure but rather...
by Art Petty | Dec 27, 2012 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Strategy
Patience is the most important attribute necessary for effective leadership that we rarely talk about. 6 Reasons Why Patience (at the right time) is an Effective Leader’s Best Choice: 1. Too much beating the drum for speed, speed, speed ensures that the drum just...
by Art Petty | Dec 9, 2012 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
Those first few steps towards action…those first movements beyond the whiteboard and into practice are some of the most difficult steps for many teams and organizations. Some groups naturally revel in the endless debate, while others hunker down behind the status quo,...
by Art Petty | Nov 25, 2012 | Challenging Conversations, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Too many group discussions in the workplace are journeys to nowhere in particular. Prompted by an issue or opportunity confronting the team, these discussion often proceed in pinball like fashion with participants bouncing from topic-to-topic exchanging opinions,...
