by Art Petty | Jul 21, 2010 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Project Management
I’m leery of happy teams. Don’t get me wrong. I like positive situations and working with happy people, however, in my experience, the happy teams are the ones that produce mediocre results or, they don’t produce at all. Give me a group of people that show up to do...
by Art Petty | Jun 4, 2010 | Uncategorized
1. Motivated, conscientious team members and employees thrive on well-delivered constructive and positive feedback. 2. Too many managers or supervisors fear delivering constructive feedback. The fear is irrational. It tends to be focused on concerns over reactions...
by Art Petty | May 24, 2010 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Project Management
Some leaders move through their days like a flat rock skipping over the surface of a pond. They are focused on personal efficiency and speed, and the faster they move and the more decisions that they make, the better they believe they are doing as leaders. Their days...
by Art Petty | Apr 12, 2010 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Product Management, Project Management
While the phrase is most commonly referenced as attitude adjustment, I’ll go out on a limb and suggest that one of the abilities that leaders must develop to be effective is the ability to adjust their altitudes. Good leaders learn to scale institutional and...
by Art Petty | Mar 17, 2010 | Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation
Dan Ariely offers an interesting piece in the April, 2010 Harvard Business Review on “Why Businesses Don’t Experiment.” In this brief essay (only available for a fee as of this writing), he offers two main reasons for the lack of experimentation: “…experiments require...
