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Leadership Caffeine™ for the New Week

Let's start out with an extra large cup of the hot stuff to help kick-start the new week. Oh, and one sugar, please, in acknowledgement of Valentine’s Day. Consistent with the theme of this card, flower and candy holiday that my significant other enjoys so much, the focus this week is on relationships. It's time to improve your professional networking, spend some time learning from your sales colleagues and work on repairing any broken relationships. Oh yeah, and don't forget your significant other on Valentine's Day!

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:46:48-05:00February 8th, 2009|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Podcast: Ten Big Points on Leading and Leadership, part 1 of 2

Join Art for a little less than ten minutes of Management Excellence as he shares points 1 thru 5 of his 10 Big Points on Leading and Leadership. This podcast was based on a recent guest speaking opportunity for a class of college seniors and adapted to fit anyone who is leading, interested in leading [...]

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:47:00-05:00January 27th, 2009|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Quick Reads and Sound Bites on Success, Career Growth and Leading

Suggested links and resources on success, career growth as a product manager and leading. Check out the review of Gladwell's Outliers at Three Star Leadership, Career Growth and the Product Manager by Art Petty and a podcast summary of Leading from the Edge by Dennis Perkins.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:47:04-05:00January 22nd, 2009|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leader, What Are You Doing to Improve Your Value Creation?

Leadership should be one of the principal value creation components of the management system, yet poor leadership practices often result in increased complexity, added waste and blocked attempts to streamline processes and make improvements that would otherwise benefit the organization and its customers. One of the key reasons that leaders and leadership practices often fail to create value (or to create more value) is the lack of a common operational and actionable definition for the role of a leader.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:47:55-05:00December 26th, 2008|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Latest Edition of Leadership Development Carnival at Great Leadership

Dan McCarthy is back this month with the 3rd edition of his Leadership Development Carnival at his Top 25-rated blog: Great Leadership. Dan brings together in one place some of the best leadership and talent blogging content from around the globe.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:49:07-05:00September 7th, 2008|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Living, Learning and Leading in an Increasingly Virtual World

Somewhere between the world I grew up in and the world that we are living in today, everything about working, leading and learning began to change. It’s increasingly a virtual world, and everything about communicating, interacting and developing relationships feels a bit different than it used to. While many/most of us are compliant with the changes in communications (telex to fax to e-mail to IM, web conferencing etc.), I wonder how many of us are truly working to become competent at living and working in this world.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:49:27-05:00July 25th, 2008|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|3 Comments

Can You Create A Mission-Driven Focus in a For-Profit Business?

Leaders from the top on down in Not-For-Profits hold an unfair advantage over their erstwhile counterparts in the For-Profit world. Managers in Not-for-Profit are driven by a powerful sense of purpose that delivers meaning and context for even the most mundane of activities. As one young Not-For-Profit manager in my recent Leadership Mastery workshop indicated, "I can't imagine not having the mission to inspire and energize me everyday." My question: Can For-Profit organizations replicate the motivational and contextual power of "The Mission" through other proxies like goals, strategies, bonuses and targets all focused around competitors, financials and metrics like market-share and compound annual growth rate?

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:49:45-05:00July 1st, 2008|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment

Some Great Insights at the Latest Carnival of Human Resources

Check out Jon Ingham's Strategic Human Capital blog for the latest Carnival of Human Resources and some global perspectives on on compelling issues in managing and leading. Thanks to Jon for featuring one of my recent posts.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:49:54-05:00June 12th, 2008|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Leadership and the Winning Environment

From selecting and supporting the right people to caring enough to provide the tools, mentoring and constructive feedback, this leader, whether CEO, Shift Supervisor or High School Tennis Coach, is truly responsible for creating an environment that breeds success. Success as we know, tends to breed more success. It's a wonderful, vicious cycle.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:50:23-05:00May 15th, 2008|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|0 Comments

Three Simple, Low Cost Ideas to Help Jump-Start Leadership Development

Jump-starting a leadership development activity does not require a tremendous investment in program development, outside consultants or big company meetings. Sometimes the best results come from simple approaches, and anything that gets people talking about the right issues can serve as a starting-point. The key point is for you to do something. Any or all of these three simple ideas can get you started.

By Art Petty|2024-08-08T13:50:28-05:00May 7th, 2008|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|1 Comment