by Art Petty | Feb 16, 2008 | Product Management
Thanks to a good friend and the person I credit with the creation of the "Why is a Product Manager Like the Office Photocopier?" joke, I recently unearthed a listing of questions that we had established with the PM team to help teach and remind everyone of...
by Art Petty | Feb 3, 2008 | Leadership, Strategy
In an earlier post (Is Your Organization Strategy-Fueled or Strategy-Starved?), I introduced a set of simple diagnostic questions to help gauge a firm’s relative maturity around leadership and strategy. In my own experience with this informal tool, most...
by Art Petty | Jan 25, 2008 | Leadership, Strategy
(The following is a figment of my imagination only and any resemblance to anyone living, dead or otherwise is purely accidental. I had a horrible consultant’s dream the other night, where I found myself shouted down in a planning session when I had the temerity to...
by Art Petty | Jan 24, 2008 | Leadership
One of the wonderful benefits of modern technology is the ability of organizations to scale without investing in bricks and mortar. It is commonplace in a number of industries for people to work together for years and never set eyes on each other. It’s also...
by Art Petty | Jan 16, 2008 | Leadership, Product Management
My posting, The Product Manager as MVP, offered my perspective on the potential for the professional in this role to have a material impact on a firm’s success. I truly believe in the power of this function to shape firms, and for individuals and teams of...
