by Art Petty | Mar 25, 2019 | Challenging Conversations, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
At the time, I had no idea how to respond to the feedback: “You need to show your team you’re not a machine.” “Huh?” I was a first-time manager with two years in the role. And, I had been operating with a very wrong sense of what my job was. It took a...
by Art Petty | Mar 13, 2019 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
Good leaders care about creating great outcomes. Great leaders care about how they affect people. Long after everyone forgets the big deals and the numbers, they’ll remember how they were affected by you. Make sure your impact ripples positively through time....
by Art Petty | Feb 10, 2019 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Decision-Making, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Challenging management and performance conversations regularly run off the rails. They are often muddled, mixed-up, and monumentally massacred. Nonetheless, at least people are attempting to talk about the tough topics—even if things occasionally go cattywampus (look...
by Art Petty | Jan 11, 2019 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
Alchemy, according to Malouin in the Encyclopedia of Diderot, is the chemistry of the subtlest kind which allows one to observe extraordinary chemical operations at a more rapid pace—ones that require a long time for nature to produce. Newsflash, there are no...
by Art Petty | Jan 7, 2019 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
The candidates were very different. One was the textbook winner—great pedigree, including top schools and a nice progression of assignments for name-brand firms during his first decade in the workforce. The other individual didn’t match-up well on paper. The...
