by Art Petty | Mar 3, 2008 | Leadership
The best leaders understand that one of their principal responsibilities is to shape the working environment that determines how their team members communicate, collaborate, innovate and problem-solve. Don’t confuse my phrase: working environment with the...
by Art Petty | Feb 19, 2008 | Leadership
"The only way that you will succeed on my team is if you are married to the job!" "The reason that I am not in any family vacation pictures is because I’m on the phone. If I’m in the picture, I have a blackberry stuck to my ear."...
by Art Petty | Feb 16, 2008 | Product Management
Thanks to a good friend and the person I credit with the creation of the "Why is a Product Manager Like the Office Photocopier?" joke, I recently unearthed a listing of questions that we had established with the PM team to help teach and remind everyone of...
by Art Petty | Feb 15, 2008 | Leadership
I had the great pleasure of serving as a guest lecturer on Leadership yesterday to a class of college seniors (business majors), and I was struck by the remarkably mature perspective and intuitive feel that they have for the subject. After my opening comments on...
by Art Petty | Feb 10, 2008 | Leadership
Somewhere during my second decade out of college (Hey, I’m slow but I figure it out eventually!), I recall having the epiphany that most people in leadership roles acted like they had no conception of what their job as a leader was. In fact, it dawned me...
