by Art Petty | Jul 20, 2009 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Notes from Art: My week has already started with a double jolt of leadership caffeine. I speak Monday afternoon on one of my favorite topics: “High Performance Trade Show Marketing Practices” at TS2 in Chicago at McCormick Place, based on the content in the e-guide...
by Art Petty | Jul 17, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
Note from Art: this post was prompted based on my general rankling at the annual migration of corporate teams to strategy offsites. There are more effective ways to get organizations focused and moving than this traditionally dysfunctional, low-outcome event, and the...
by Art Petty | Jul 13, 2009 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change
My biggest mistakes as a leader occurred as a result of spending way too much time attempting to change two people. I was young, new to the formal leadership scene and convinced that with my help and guidance, these two talented individuals would certainly shed their...
by Art Petty | Jul 10, 2009 | Leadership
If you’ve spent time in a leadership role, you know that it is remarkably difficult to get good quality feedback on how you are doing and for that matter, how everyone else is doing under your leadership. If you haven’t wondered about this, you are either naïve or you...
by Art Petty | Jul 1, 2009 | Leadership
I am a sucker for family movies and one that I enjoy every 4th of July (yes, I watch specific movies on specific days of the year!) is The Sandlot. It’s a delightful story filled with baseball, kids and Americana. My favorite scene is when the neighborhood boys...