by Art Petty | Sep 1, 2017 | Career, Just One Thing, Leading Change
As an organizational leader, change is the stuff of long days and sleepless nights. For everyone else in the organization, the moment in time when you learn change is inevitable is often the stuff of panic attacks. That’s a shame because a more rational response...
by Art Petty | Jun 19, 2017 | High Performance Management Teams, Leadership
All of us face a choice to protect the status quo or lead the way down uncharted paths. For long successful firms, the tendency of those in charge is to protect what’s working. They become museum guards or what I describe as caretaker managers. Innovation in these...
by Art Petty | May 19, 2017 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leading Change
IBM is the latest firm to announce an end to remote working arrangements—a practice it popularized and enabled through its products and advertising. It seems there’s a trend, particularly in struggling companies ranging from Best Buy a few years ago, to Yahoo, and...
by Art Petty | Dec 12, 2016 | Leading Change
I grew up in a home where I was “Somebody, ” and my brother was “Anybody.” When Mom shouted, “Will Somebody please take out the garbage,” it was a statement not a question and I jumped to attention. If the question was, “Did Anybody feed the rabbit?” my brother was on...
by Art Petty | Feb 29, 2016 | Leadership Caffeine
As a business speaker, I talk to groups a great deal about the issues of change. From navigating the business and industry impacting change created by advancements in technology and the obsolescence of older business approaches, to the more personal issue of how to...
