by Art Petty | Mar 27, 2008 | Leadership, Product Management
Seriously. If you are at or near the top of the food chain in your organization, this is one of those perplexing questions that can have you staring at the ceiling at two in the morning, asking yourself, "Yeah, how do insights and ideas turn into actions in...
by Art Petty | Mar 25, 2008 | Leadership
Every once in awhile, a number of articles or blog posts converge nicely to build on each other. Today over at Wally Bock’s Three Star Leadership Blog in his post entitled Sunday Afternoons, Wally offers his perspective on an article describing that many...
by Art Petty | Mar 24, 2008 | Leadership
There’s a great, thought-provoking article today in the March 24, 2008 Wall Street Journal. by George Anders, entitled: Overseeing More Employees with Fewer Managers. The sub-title of the article identifies the source of this so-called trend: Consultants...
by Art Petty | Mar 18, 2008 | Product Management, Project Management
I will be posting from airport lounges this week, but before I head out, I wanted to relate a lesson about decision-making that I learned (the hard way) a number of years ago. This was prompted by a discussion with a promising early career product management...
by Art Petty | Feb 28, 2008 | Product Management
A post by Steve Johnson at Pragmatic Marketing raises the issue of Product Managers/Marketers spending quality time in front of customers rather than hiding behind other less personal forms of information gathering. Surveys and phone interviews can be helpful,...