by Art Petty | Feb 6, 2014 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Management Innovation, Strategy
The Art of Managing series is dedicated to exploring the critical issues we face in guiding our firms and teams to success in today’s volatile world. — I reference Geoffrey Moore’s 2011 book, Escape Velocity regularly in my management writing because it is...
by Art Petty | Dec 16, 2013 | Art of Managing, High Performance Management Teams, Management Innovation, Strategy
In Part 1 of this series on Creating the High Performance Senior Management Team, I identified a number of key areas where management teams often fail and fail. Here in Part 2, I tackle two critical challenges that CEOs and senior managers must overcome on the road to...
by Art Petty | Nov 24, 2013 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Strategy
In an article in the Sunday Chicago Tribune, Edward Lampert, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sears Holding Corp offers, “We don’t have a sales problem. What we have is a profit problem, and that’s what we’re intending to address.” Mr....
by Art Petty | Aug 18, 2013 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Project Management, Strategy
With few exceptions that I’ve encountered, most senior leaders lose sleep over how fast their organizations and employees are moving. Their minds and mantras are: faster to change, faster to improve, faster to add new capabilities, faster to explore and develop...
by Art Petty | Jul 22, 2013 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Management Innovation, Strategy
We all know and live with the distractions that pull us from our true priorities. From the personal issues that tug at us while we’re striving to work and live, to the endless number of workplace distractions, focus often seems like an abstract concept. A bit of daily...
