by Art Petty | Nov 29, 2011 | Leadership, Strategy
In my experience, the management teams that lead the best performing businesses are those that incorporate at least three key strategic questions into almost every operational and status discussion. What are Your Teams Talking About? The gross majority of the dialogue...
by Art Petty | Nov 8, 2011 | Strategy
Strategy…the discussions…the decisions and of course, the execution, is hard work filled with ample opportunities to misstep. From revisiting and updating the underlying assumptions about your business, markets and competitors, to the vexing issues of deciding what to...
by Art Petty | Oct 19, 2011 | Leadership Caffeine Podcast
Organizations of all sizes and types, from high tech to manufacturing and not-for-profit, struggle with a common dilemma…how to escape the pull of the past as they look forward into a fast-changing and very different world. If you’ve ever worked for or...
by Art Petty | Oct 17, 2011 | Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Project Management, Strategy
We’re so focused on speed in our organization, that we’ve become remarkably competent at creating problems faster. Somewhere on the way to this world we now live and work in, “speed” became a proxy for success. Speed is undoubtedly important, but beware relying on...
by Art Petty | Sep 12, 2011 | Just One Thing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
I encounter a fair number of lousy managers in my work—sometimes directly and other times via my coaching clients. One of the hallmarks of these less-than-ideal managers is their tendency to push people to work without offering any insight as to how their tasks...
