by Art Petty | Feb 24, 2025 | Great Leadership and Management Resources, Ideas for Leadership Success, Moving to the Role of Manager, Strengthening as a Communicator
In approximately 800 hours of executive and manager coaching each year, the one issue that arises in almost every call is a communication challenge. CEOs are struggling with tough conversations with board members. Vice-Presidents don’t seem to have the ear of the CEO...
by Art Petty | Jun 29, 2020 | Just One Thing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups, Leading Change, Miscellaneous Pet Peeves
There’s a crisis in our organizations. It’s a talking crisis, characterized by a gross lack of listening. Most senior leaders I encounter are great at talking, occupying most of the oxygen in every room. What they’re not so good at is listening....
by Art Petty | Jul 22, 2019 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I’m biased a bit on this career acceleration issue because I hang out with people highly motivated to move fast and advance upward in their working lives. They seek me out for coaching and mentoring, and they work hard at bringing ideas to life inside their...
by Art Petty | Jan 20, 2019 | Art of Managing, Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, Just One Thing, Leadership
Our workday lives and workplaces are daily exercises in challenging conversations. From feedback and coaching discussions to interchanges with coworkers who can say, “Yes” or “No” to your requests for resources, process changes, budgetary allocations or fresh ideas,...
by Art Petty | Jun 14, 2018 | Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leadership Power-Ups
For the record, I love Tom Peters’ latest book, “The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work that Wows and Jobs that Last.” It reads like a common-sense punch-in-the-nose reminder on pursuing excellence in the moment with every breath and action you and...
