by Art Petty | Aug 19, 2010 | Leadership, Leading Change
We invest a great deal of time talking and writing and preaching about change. We discuss resistance to change, fear of change, our own need for personal change and the challenges that organizations face when it comes to embracing change. We’re not very good at...
by Art Petty | Apr 28, 2009 | Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
There is a fascinating article on Change Management in a recent issue (Issue 2/2009) of the McKinsey Quarterly (subscription required) by Carolyn Aiken and Scott Keller, entitled: “The Irrational Side of Change Management.” And while much has been written over the...
by Art Petty | Mar 20, 2009 | Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation
Author’s Note: This post moves from fun to management revolution in a hurry. Hold on! One of the things that I absolutely love about this time that we are living through is the constant and accelerating rewriting of the rules. How much fun is it to be engaged...
by Art Petty | Dec 9, 2008 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Project Management
Author and consultant Gary Hamel writes in the preface to his latest book, The Future of Management, that, “Management is out of date. Like the combustion engine, it’s a technology that has largely stopped evolving and that’s not good.” Hamel challenges leaders and...
by Art Petty | Dec 2, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Marketing, Product Management, Project Management
I suspect that most readers will agree that examples of management excellence, high performance and great leadership are not the topics dominating the news in this emerging “we’ve never seen anything like this before” economy. Instead, we are fed a constant stream of...