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Art of Managing—Steering Clear of Flail and Fail

Businesses of all sizes, shapes and ages run into rough patches. Rapid growth, disruptive competitors or technologies, regulatory changes or the end of the road for well-worn strategies are all potential culprits in the move from success to struggle. It’s critical at this point for a firm’s leaders and managers to react carefully and appropriately in this unfamiliar terrain or they risk moving quickly from flail to fail. They invite flailure. Here are 5 ideas to stem the tide when the flailing starts:

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:11-05:00December 18th, 2014|Art of Managing, Leadership, Management Innovation, Strategy|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Breakaway Leadership Part 2

Post number 1 in this series focused on the behaviors that often stifle the pursuit of moving into a new area while sustaining the legacy business. In this post, we look at 8 behaviors and approaches that YOU and your management counterparts directly control that contribute to success with this challenging endeavor:

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:15-05:00February 23rd, 2014|Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Exploring Breakaway Leadership, Part 1

If you’ve lived through a successful migration of a business from a legacy market to a new world, you know that it’s a sometimes messy, often emotionally turbo-charged experience. Here are 8 leadership behaviors that are guaranteed to create "tripping points" for any organization or team striving to breakaway from the past:

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:15-05:00February 10th, 2014|Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Project Management, Strategy|2 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Get Your Team Moving on Change

The Leadership Caffeine series is 200 installments strong and is dedicated to every aspiring or experienced leader seeking ideas, insights or just a jolt of energy to keep pushing forward. Thanks for being along for the journey! -- We all know that leading and succeeding with change of any type is hard work. As humans, [...]

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:17-05:00December 15th, 2013|Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Project Management|0 Comments

Art of Managing—Always Be Building

Of the eight valuable leadership lessons shared in the HBR article, "Ferguson's Forumla" (subscription or $), number 2, “Dare to Rebuild Your Team” is critically important and often bypassed in the workplace due to friction, tentativeness on the part of managers and HR groups and lack of vision and courage on the part of managers. Sadly, in too many cases, we allow a number of challenging but controllable impediments to get in our way of doing the right thing. These 4 are...

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:19-05:00September 11th, 2013|Art of Managing, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation|0 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™—Surviving and Thriving Under Uncertainty

There are few attributes more valuable to leaders than the ability to stare uncertainty in the face and recognize it as a golden opportunity to shape and form the situation to their own and to their firm’s advantage. Here are 5 ideas to help you flip fear and uncertainty in the workplace upside down:

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:19-05:00August 25th, 2013|Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Strategy|1 Comment

Leadership Caffeine™-Guiding Your Team off the Whiteboard into Action

Those first few steps towards action…those first movements beyond the whiteboard and into practice are some of the most difficult steps for many teams and organizations. Here are 7 ideas to help you get beyond the discussions in pursuit of change:

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:24-05:00December 9th, 2012|Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change|2 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Warning! Your Words About Change are Falling on Cynical Ears

Even the most credible of leaders have to step up their game when it comes to talking about and promoting change on their teams and in their organizations. Here are 7 Helpful Steps to Get Started on the Right Foot Talking About Change:

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:32-05:00January 23rd, 2012|Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change|1 Comment

Art Guest Posts at Lead Change, My Next Book & Other Updates

I confess to focusing a great deal recently on the future of leadership. This was evident in my guest post, "The Great and Perilous Leadership Journey Ahead,"at Tanveer Naseer’s site, and in today’s essay, "Leadership Guidance for Our Children." at the Lead Change site. And while you're visiting Lead Change, be certain to check out the many great blog posts from some truly outstanding leadership writers and thinkers.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:45-05:00December 16th, 2010|Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Project Management|6 Comments

Don’t Be Naive When It Comes to Driving Change

There are ample reasons for organizations to change business processes and business practices in this fast moving and complex environment. The market drivers are strong, the business justification is clear and often, ideas on how and where to change are clearly visible to some inside organizations. It’s too bad that most change management initiatives fail, in spite of the best of intentions. With a bit of advance warning and some darned hard work however, you may be able to avoid the fate of so many that have come before you. Learn to ask yourself some core questions and keep asking these questions and you might just put one in the win column.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:46-05:00November 5th, 2010|Career, Leadership, Leading Change|12 Comments

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