by Art Petty | Jun 22, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Note from Art: I read Mark Raymo’s inspirational e-Newsletter, Light4theWeek, every Monday morning and enjoy it so much that I asked him if I could share it with my blog readers. Mark agreed and what follows below is one of my favorite shorts in his great and...
by Art Petty | Jun 16, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership
Imagine Lincoln’s thoughts as he watched the smoke from Confederate campfires rise into the sky just a few miles from the White House, well aware that there were insufficient troops to defend the city should they choose to attack. As a backdrop to this disturbing...
by Art Petty | Jun 15, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
It’s a great week of slowly rising temperatures here in Chicago, but still not prime time for iced coffee in the morning. Today’s cup is a dark, bold Papau New Guinea, roasted locally of course. Now before you skewer me for suggesting in the title of this post that...
by Art Petty | Jun 11, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management
There’s an excellent post entitled, “Sorry is not the final word, just the beginning,” by guest author and Product/Project Management Consultant, Lisa Winter at one of my favorite blogs: The Art of Project Management. hosted by the UCSC-Extension in Silicon Valley....
by Art Petty | Jun 9, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Management Innovation
Gary Hamel offers a post well worth reading on “Why Success Often Sows the Seeds of Failure,” in his Management 2.0 blog at the Wall Street Journal. He takes some tough and well-earned shots at the narrow-minded thinking of executives that foments the eventual demise...
