by Art Petty | Aug 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
We delivered our oldest son to college on Friday and our high school senior survived (barely) the annual “first day of school picture” in our backyard this morning. I am busy preparing class materials for my Fall MBA courses and it feels like summer is...
by Art Petty | Jul 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
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...
by Art Petty | Jul 21, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Project Management, Strategy
Today’s post was stimulated by a great article in the July/August 2008 Harvard Business Review, The Competitive Imperative of Learning, where Professor Amy Edmonson of Harvard Business School outlines the differences between organizations that focus on execution as...
by Art Petty | Mar 20, 2008 | Leadership, Project Management, Strategy
Traditional strategic planning approaches often fail to deliver the results that firms require to jump start growth or pull out of a sustained decline. Legacy approaches emphasize a periodic focus on strategy—often an annual refresh against a long-range...
by Art Petty | Mar 10, 2008 | Leadership
In the spirit of full disclosure, I’m currently off on a holiday with my oldest son. We escaped the frozen, snow covered Midwest for some sun and fun. We attended the finals of a tennis tournament yesterday, played a few hours of tennis today and got...
