by Art Petty | May 19, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Project Management
I’ve worked around new product development projects my entire career and I’ve served as an executive sponsor for many development and strategic projects, but not until I began teaching project management to graduate students, did I fully understood the very distinct...
by Art Petty | Mar 29, 2009 | Career, Leadership Caffeine, Project Management
A healthy spring snowstorm blanketed the northwest suburbs of Chicago overnight, making the morning cup of coffee particularly relevant as a source of both warmth and energy. I’m back with a fresh pound of my favorite fair trade Mexican Roast from a great local...
by Art Petty | Mar 11, 2009 | Career, Project Management
I love to talk with people that have led or been part of a high performance team (HPT). Their enthusiasm is palpable. These individuals have been to the promised land of corporate collaboration and achievement for a brief period in time and they are interested in...
by Art Petty | Mar 3, 2009 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
One of the themes that I hear consistently in workshops and in discussions with the professionals in my MBA classes is frustration over the propensity of a firm’s leaders to never say “No” to a project. Lacking a viable mechanism to compare, evaluate and select and...
by Art Petty | Jan 30, 2009 | Career, Leadership, Leading Change, Project Management
One of the things that I love about what I do as a speaker/trainer/educator is that I get to work with a lot of great people genuinely concerned about their development and the development and improvement of their organizations. As I continue on my career respite from...
