by Art Petty | Mar 10, 2013 | Art of Managing, Management Innovation
In the past two weeks there’s been a buzz in the world of business generated by two firms changing longstanding flexible working arrangements. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced an end to the firm’s liberal telecommuting policy, and Best Buy CEO Hubert Joly tossed out...
by Art Petty | May 26, 2012 | Leadership, Management Innovation
Regular readers know my perspective on those who lead without authority. I’m a huge fan. These are the people who turn good businesses great and who power teams with the kinetic energy created by their constant motion. Great product managers, strong project leaders...
by Art Petty | Feb 8, 2012 | Leadership, Strategy
In their July, 2011 Harvard Business Review Article, Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage (great article, worth the $ IMO), Martin Reeves and Mike Deimler make a solid case for our need to cultivate critical soft organizational skills to survive and prosper in...
by Art Petty | Jan 29, 2012 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Note from Art: Consider this tough love intended to motivate leaders everywhere to rethink and refine their approaches. — In the prologue to my recently published collection: Leadership Caffeine-Ideas to Energize Your Professional Development, I write: For...
by Art Petty | Aug 29, 2011 | Leadership, Management Innovation
One of the exciting parts of living and working through “these interesting times,” comes from the opportunity to apply the tools of management in new ways and forms to today’s complex problems. This “management innovation” as Dr. Gary Hamel describes it, is much...
