by Art Petty | Sep 2, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Marketing
I’ve heard the phrase “We had a good meeting,” or some derivative of it so many times that I’ve lost count. Whenever I hear this meeting review or it’s ugly stepchild, “We talked about a lot at that meeting,” alarm bells start ringing, my spider sense tingles and I...
by Art Petty | Apr 17, 2008 | Leadership
This is a follow-on to my recent rave against the time-wasting, dysfunctional debating society events that masquerade as meetings in many corporate settings. My drive to momentarily stay on my "effective-meeting" soapbox was galvanized yesterday, when...
by Art Petty | Apr 16, 2008 | Leadership
Consider the last team meeting that you attended or led: -Was the agenda well organized? -Did problems and polite (or not so polite) bickering dominate the airtime? -Did people show up with an agenda of their own? -Were the same topics that were...
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...
