by Art Petty | Aug 31, 2010 | Leadership, Leading Change, Management Innovation, Strategy
Every year, a number of the large consulting firms publish surveys outlining the issues that keep global corporate leaders awake at night. Inevitably, the topic turns to strategy and more specifically to the headaches and challenges of executing strategy. For those of...
by Art Petty | Aug 25, 2010 | Career, Decision-Making, Leadership, Leading Change
More observations on business and culture from an unofficial leadership anthropologist. The lot of professionals inside many organizations can easily be characterized by a series of endless status meetings, hurried hallway conversations and messages quickly dispatched...
by Art Petty | Jun 16, 2010 | Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
While we celebrate companies that pursue and succeed in radically changing the rules of the game, let’s face it, most organizations run on inertia. For every company that redefines their little part of the world and changes our culture just a bit, there are plenty of...
by Art Petty | May 11, 2010 | Leadership, Project Management
As a long-time, self-described zealot for the importance of project managers developing as leaders, imagine how excited I was to learn about a conference devoted to just this topic! I’ve written at length in this blog (Learning to Lead in the Project Focused World and...
by Art Petty | May 5, 2010 | Decision-Making, Leadership, Project Management, Strategy
Jocelyn R. Davis and Tom Atkinson offer some compelling thoughts on strategy in their article, “Need Speed? Slow Down,” in the May, 2010 Harvard Business Review. They describe the concept of strategic speed as one of reducing the time it takes to create...
