by Art Petty | Jul 7, 2008 | Leadership, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
Ever since terms like reengineering, right sizing and downsizing became part of the corporate lexicon; midlevel managers have been taking it on the chin. This once populous class has been synergized and right-sized almost to extinction. Those that remain...
by Art Petty | Jun 16, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change
There's an interesting post today in the Harvard Business Review Working Knowledge newsletter entitled "Why Don't Managers Think Deeply?" Professor James Heskett highlights GE CEO Geoffrey Immelt's recent pronouncements that he is: looking for...
by Art Petty | Jun 4, 2008 | Uncategorized
A broadcast titled: “The Millennials Are Coming” on 60 Minutes a few weeks ago has sparked a fair amount of water cooler conversation. The theme of this excellent piece is that as these well coddled, got a trophy just for showing up, computer-literate and...
by Art Petty | May 21, 2008 | Leadership
Thankfully, the human brain does a pretty good job of managing memories by helping us smooth out the bad times and enhance the good. This seems to work pretty well for a lot of things in life, with one major exception being our memories of lousy leaders that...
by Art Petty | May 18, 2008 | Leadership, Project Management
I recently conducted a leadership workshop for a group of technical professionals at an industry conference, and as always, I walked away from the session with a couple of insights gained from the input of the participants. One that surprised me was that after...
