by Art Petty | Jun 11, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management
There’s an excellent post entitled, “Sorry is not the final word, just the beginning,” by guest author and Product/Project Management Consultant, Lisa Winter at one of my favorite blogs: The Art of Project Management. hosted by the UCSC-Extension in Silicon Valley....
by Eric Lieberman | Mar 26, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Management Innovation
Note from Art: It is a pleasure and a privilege to have Eric Lieberman publishing his Management Lessons from the Memphis Belle as a guest author here at Management Excellence. I had the pleasure of working for Eric and the co-creator of the Rules, Paul Byrne, and it...
by Art Petty | Mar 3, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
One of the themes that I hear consistently in workshops and in discussions with the professionals in my MBA classes is frustration over the propensity of a firm’s leaders to never say “No” to a project. Lacking a viable mechanism to compare, evaluate and select and...
by Art Petty | Feb 20, 2009 | Leadership, Leading Change
It’s easy to focus on the bad news. Everyone’s talking about it. We’re bombarded with news flashes and human disaster stories as the layoffs mount and the foreclosures climb. And make no doubt about it, these are tough times, but let’s start giving some coverage to...
by Art Petty | Dec 23, 2008 | Leadership
My postings will slow to a dull roar over the holiday week as I focus on family as well as making progress on my Management Excellence podcast program. I didn’t want to leave my prior essay on Deming and the Failure of American Management as my last post before the...
