by Art Petty | Nov 21, 2010 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I’ve made a number of mistakes over the course of my leadership career that make my head spin and my stomach turn just thinking about them. No life or death or business impacting mistakes, but, definitely some people and team impacting issues that created ill will...
by Art Petty | Nov 15, 2010 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The short, important and seemingly harmless word, “I,” is a potentially lethal weapon of morale and credibility destruction when used for evil or ego instead of for good. It’s so powerful in fact, that I envision a future world where leaders wear the...
by Art Petty | Nov 8, 2010 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation
The art and science of management is much about coping with risk. There are few certain outcomes in business, and that’s particularly true when we factor in the reality that people are darned complex and don’t always act rationally. More often than not, I see managers...
by Art Petty | Nov 1, 2010 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I’ve not met a person yet that doesn’t need help from time to time, and this goes double for anyone in a leadership role. Leadership is frequently lonely and those that take their role seriously truly fret over decisions surrounded by ambiguity. The pressure to...
by Art Petty | Oct 25, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation
Note from Art: application of the ideas in this post has been known to stimulate creativity in some office environments. In a limited number of cases, use of these ideas or concepts has caused distress mostly due to failure to properly follow instructions or, because...
