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Strengthen Your Team By Seeking People Who Believe that They Can Grow

Look back on your own recent string of hires and promotions, and if your batting average is lower than you would like it to be, consider Ms. Dweck’s advice: “look for both talent and a growth mind-set in prospective hires—people with a passion for learning who thrive on challenge and change. And remember to open your eyes and look around you for talent in unexpected places. Your greatest future success stories might be closer than they appear.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:21-05:00August 14th, 2008|Leadership, Leading Change|0 Comments

Capturing Talent and Creating Great Customer Experiences: They Go Together

There’s no way that an organization that accommodates sloppy interviewing habits is landing and retaining the best and brightest. As a business leader, you want your customers to constantly be surprised and delighted. A manager that takes mid-interview smoke breaks and badgers a talented candidate about salary expectations is someone that I want working for my competitor.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:23-05:00July 18th, 2008|Leadership|0 Comments

Teaching a Senior Team To Dance With Leadership Development

There is no silver bullet for creating an effective leadership culture, but there is a straightforward formula: focus, time and discipline. And of course, practice, practice and more practice. How well does your senior team dance when it comes to leadership development?

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:23-05:00July 9th, 2008|Leadership|2 Comments

Ironically, Mid-Level Managers May Save Your Business

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 often struggle with spans of control as wide as the Golden Gate Bridge and limited authority that is constantly challenged from above and below. I find it just a bit ironic (and appropriate) that this much-abused class of leader may just hold the key to surviving and prospering in tough times.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:23-05:00July 7th, 2008|Leadership, Product Management, Project Management, Strategy|0 Comments

Leadership and the Winning Environment

From selecting and supporting the right people to caring enough to provide the tools, mentoring and constructive feedback, this leader, whether CEO, Shift Supervisor or High School Tennis Coach, is truly responsible for creating an environment that breeds success. Success as we know, tends to breed more success. It's a wonderful, vicious cycle.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:25-05:00May 15th, 2008|Leadership|0 Comments

Management by Jane: Leading Effectively from the Middle

"Jane" is a senior leader exerting broad influence on an organization, while sitting smack in the middle of the organization chart. She's a testament to the power of maintaining the right attitude on all fronts, and she clearly has learned several of the most valuable lessons of leadership: select great people, deal with them openly and honestly, provide opportunities and challenges and let them do what they do best.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:27-05:00April 8th, 2008|Leadership|0 Comments

Do You Know Why Your Talent Is Walking Out The Door?

Bob is leaving behind the business that he helped start and grow and save and grow and sell and sell again, and no one in BIGCO cares. Frankly, no one in the upper ranks even knows that he exists. The dirty little secret: he's just another faceless number on a spreadsheet and his departure will improve the expense to revenue ratio, and solve an annoying compensation problem in this now remote outpost of BIGCO. Bob is in the prime of his career, an expert and one of the last shreds of the soul of a great business. Bob is relieved to be moving on, but to BIGCO, it's not even noticeable. Good for Bob. There's more.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:28-05:00March 5th, 2008|Leadership|0 Comments

Technical Leaders: It’s Time to Throw Out the Single-Track System for Developing Talent

One of the many priceless discussion threads during the interview, focused on the challenges of developing leadership and individual contributor talent in technical organizations. Specifically, he railed at the "single career-track" approach that in his opinion results in many otherwise great individual contributors pursuing leadership roles for the wrong reasons regardless of their interest or capabilities for leading. There is wisdom in his perspective.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:28-05:00February 27th, 2008|Leadership|2 Comments

Excitement for the Next Generation of Leaders and Management at the Movies

I had the great pleasure of serving as a guest lecturer on Leadership yesterday to a class of college seniors (business majors), and I was struck by the remarkably mature perspective and intuitive feel that they have for the subject. After my opening comments on how you can't possibly learn to be a leader from a book or a class, we launched into a series of discussions and exercises that Wowed me with the clear thinking and great ideas about effective leadership and great leaders, as well as the opposite. I'm definitely growing more excited about the potential of this generation of early career professionals!

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:28-05:00February 15th, 2008|Leadership|0 Comments

Will Software Improve Our Talent Management Performance?

t's fairly well established in my mind through our firm's research and from working for large and small firms as an employee and as a consultant, that most organizations and most leaders stink at talent development. I've cited a number of studies and surveys in my various posts that report findings that are in violent agreement with this conclusion. However, now that there is software to help us manage talent, are our problems over?

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:12:29-05:00February 6th, 2008|Leadership|0 Comments

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