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...
by Art Petty | Feb 1, 2008 | Leadership
Following a recent presentation to individuals in the Not-For-Profit arena on "Creating A Culture of Leadership Development in Your Organization," I was approached by some enthusiastic attendees who loved the content, but expressed frustration over the...
by Art Petty | Jan 30, 2008 | Leadership
The January 22, 2008 Wall Street Journal included an article in Jared Sandberg’s weekly Cubicle Culture column, entitled: Why Learn and Grow on the Job? It’s Easier to Feign Infallibility, that fits nicely with my recent posts on leadership decision...
by Art Petty | Jan 29, 2008 | Leadership
One of the most common mistakes of leaders of all experience levels is failing to act in a timely manner on poor performers. This is certainly consistent with our firm’s findings in interviews and surveys over the past two years, where the winner for ...