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...
by Art Petty | Feb 6, 2008 | Leadership
Regular readers will notice that I draw upon the Wall Street Journal to prompt ideas for many of my posts. You’ll also notice that I have a hard time keeping up with this great publication, and it took being housebound with almost a foot of new snow today...
by Art Petty | Feb 3, 2008 | Leadership, Strategy
In an earlier post (Is Your Organization Strategy-Fueled or Strategy-Starved?), I introduced a set of simple diagnostic questions to help gauge a firm’s relative maturity around leadership and strategy. In my own experience with this informal tool, most...
