by Art Petty | Sep 21, 2025 | Life Musings
Photo: One of the few childhood photos of my Dad. Dad is the boy in the center. — I wrote recently about the journey and travails we navigated this past Summer as my Dad struggled and eventually passed. In this and one more planned article, I share some of the...
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 20, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
With the milder weather here in the Midwest, I took the occasion to visit our north woods residence a full month earlier than normal this past weekend. The first visit of the season is always one filled with hope and excitement for the coming months and just a bit of...
by Art Petty | May 9, 2016 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Every person who has spent any significant amount of time in a management role has encountered at least one employee from that warm place, and I am not talking about Phoenix. The best of the worst are master manipulators who work within the system confounding attempts...
by Art Petty | Aug 9, 2010 | Leadership, Leading Change
Chances are, we’ve all read about and heard from mid-career managers complaining about the younger generation entering the workforce. The “don’t want to pay their dues,” and “you can’t pry them away from their PDAs,” and “poor work ethic” laments are in my...
