by Art Petty | Aug 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
We delivered our oldest son to college on Friday and our high school senior survived (barely) the annual “first day of school picture” in our backyard this morning. I am busy preparing class materials for my Fall MBA courses and it feels like summer is...
by Art Petty | Jul 31, 2008 | Leadership, Leading Change, Strategy
Deming’s first of his 14 Points for Management reads: Create constancy of purpose toward improvement of product and service, with the aim to become competitive and to stay in business, and to provide jobs. The phrase, “Constancy of Purpose” strikes me as perhaps the...
by Art Petty | Jul 18, 2008 | Leadership
The Poor Interviewing Habits of Many Managers You would think that we would have this problem crossed off the list by now. I wonder how organizations and leaders in good faith can let managers recruit talent without teaching them HOW to interview and holding...
by Art Petty | Jul 7, 2008 | Leadership, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy
Ever since terms like reengineering, right sizing and downsizing became part of the corporate lexicon; midlevel managers have been taking it on the chin. This once populous class has been synergized and right-sized almost to extinction. Those that remain...
by Art Petty | Apr 28, 2008 | Leadership
A blog post at on Looking and Acting Like a Success at Alan Weis’s Contrarian Consulting site triggered some thoughts on what it means to look and act like a leader. While Alan’s post emphasizes how a successful person might act to present a desired...
