by Art Petty | May 8, 2017 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Strategy
Imagine this day: Your interactions with employees and peers are all positive. Your team’s latest results are solid. The performance indicators are all pointing in the right direction, foreshadowing more great results in the near-term. Heck, you even talked with a...
by Art Petty | Jan 27, 2013 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Strategy
One of my favorite (and I believe relevant) articles of the past year is: “Wilderness Leadership On the Job- Five principles from outdoor exploration that will make you a better manager,” by John Kanengieter and Aparna Rajagopal-Durbin in the April 2012 Harvard...
by Art Petty | Sep 10, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change
Ed Catmul, cofounder of Pixar and president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios offers his perspective on the people versus ideas question in a powerful and practical leadership article entitled: How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity, in the September, 2008 issue...
by Art Petty | Jul 24, 2008 | Decision-Making, Leadership
Your decision-making style says a lot about you as a leader. Some people make a lot of decisions with little more than a gut hunch to guide them and others spend a lot of time gathering insights and information to support their decision. Others struggle to...
by Art Petty | Apr 20, 2008 | Project Management
The folks that designed Denver International Airport’s infamous baggage handling system can breathe a bit easier now. While the much publicized start-up disasters at Denver have faded into the past, apparently the project management lessons learned did not...
