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Where Too Many Managers Hit the Wall on Their Level-Up Journeys

Where Too Many Managers Hit the Wall on Their Level-Up Journeys

by Art Petty | Jun 13, 2023 | Art of Managing, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Self-Development

Developing as a manager is a perpetual exercise in leveling up. Just when you think you’ve developed some competence at the role and are asked to take on more responsibilities, WHAM, you hit the wall of new, ambiguous challenges. In my work as an executive and...
Three Big Priorities When You’re Stepping Up to Managing Managers

Three Big Priorities When You’re Stepping Up to Managing Managers

by Art Petty | May 6, 2019 | Art of Managing, Career, Emerging Leaders, First Time Manager Series, Leadership

Succeed wildly as a front-line or first-time manager, and chances are good you’ll wake up one day and head to work and learn that everything has changed again. The disorienting promotion to manager of managers is one that receives less coverage than the plight...
The Good, Hard Work of Developing Managers Who Lead

The Good, Hard Work of Developing Managers Who Lead

by Art Petty | Aug 20, 2017 | Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine

I’ve long been accused of conflating the roles of manager and leader. I admit to not giving a rat’s rear over the mostly academic and consultant-perpetuated myth of manager equals bad or small or narrow-minded and leader equals good. It’s a false dichotomy that...
New Program—Developing as a Manager of Managers

New Program—Developing as a Manager of Managers

by Art Petty | Aug 3, 2017 | Career, Emerging Leaders, Leadership

New Webinar Series/Program, Early Bird Pricing! On the heels of my widely subscribed Succeeding as a First-Time Manager webinar subscription series & professional development program, I am excited to announce the latest: Developing as a Manager of Managers. This...

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