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 | Apr 7, 2017 | Art of Managing, Career, Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
We’re taught from an early age in school what we need to do to earn the “A.” Unfortunately, the real world isn’t that structured, predictable, or kind. Learning to tolerate ambiguity and uncertainty in business is essential for survival....
by Art Petty | Feb 19, 2017 | Leadership, Strategy
I’ve always enjoyed time-travel stories. What if in business, we could travel ahead in time to see our mistakes and then go back and correct them and change the future for the better? While Einstein and others suggest it is impossible, I beg to differ. In the...
by Art Petty | Oct 7, 2016 | Career, Leadership, Strategy
In an article in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “McDonald’s Knows It’s Losing the Burger Battle—Can it Come Back,” the chief executive suggests, “the company is trying new things and rethinking legacy beliefs.” That sounds like a...
by Art Petty | Aug 28, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Strategy
“Past performance is an indicator of future success.” While our financial documents state just the opposite as it relates to investment performance, we run our organizations as if it were a hard fast rule. In many circumstances, it’s a trap. Any recent job...
