by Art Petty | May 28, 2019 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
Make Continuous Improvement Part of Your Approach I’m a big fan of baking in continuous improvement practices into my leadership and management approaches. From how I run meetings to how I engage with others in feedback discussions or support (or inhibit)...
by Art Petty | May 19, 2019 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, The Leadership Opportunity
Here’s a fact of life for most of us in our organizations—if we don’t create the right results, we don’t last in our management or leadership roles. Our systems are set up to focus on results as the ultimate arbiters of our success. That’s it....
by Art Petty | May 8, 2019 | Career, Just One Thing, Leadership, Leadership Power-Ups, The Leadership Opportunity
I’ve long suspected the entire leadership training industrial complex (OK, that’s a stretch label, but you get the point) would be rendered obsolete if someone would highlight the one big secret behavior hiding in plain sight and free for all of us to use....
by Art Petty | Apr 11, 2019 | Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leading Change, Project Management, Strategy
Black Holes, Missed Opportunities, and Alternate Universes Leading the sales efforts for multiple software firms throughout my career, one of the issues that kept me awake at night was the idea that there were deals out there we didn’t know about in spite of our...
by Art Petty | Jan 11, 2019 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
Alchemy, according to Malouin in the Encyclopedia of Diderot, is the chemistry of the subtlest kind which allows one to observe extraordinary chemical operations at a more rapid pace—ones that require a long time for nature to produce. Newsflash, there are no...