by Art Petty | Aug 15, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Strategy
I once worked for a firm that reorganized every April. You could set your watch by it. Nothing important or innovative happened from January to June. Even at my young age, it was clear after a couple of cycles that the reorganization was a political chess game that...
by Art Petty | Jul 20, 2016 | Art of Managing, Strategy
Or, Why You Might Lose Your Business If You Don’t Change the View: Michael Dubin just sold his startup for a cool billion $ to European consumer products behemoth, Unilever. His four-year young firm is reportedly not profitable, although it has signed up 3.2...
by Art Petty | Jun 17, 2016 | High Performance Management Teams, Strategy
Kicking off a strategy initiative is one of the more vexing challenges in all of business. Aside from widespread confusion or disagreement over what strategy really is, there are the human issues around ego, politics and power that naturally emerge when the idea of a...
by Art Petty | May 25, 2016 | Art of Managing, Leadership, Strategy
Many senior leaders I encounter are grappling with the modern business problem of our time: what to do for an encore. And no, the encore isn’t a personal one, but rather it is all about the business. Long successful businesses are waking up to the reality that not...
by Art Petty | Jan 30, 2016 | Career, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine
Farewell January! We Won’t Miss You For the first month of 2016, the weather and the stock market are setting the tone, with wildly varying conditions and tremendous swings in prices, temperatures and precipitation. At least some of that precipitation must have...
