by Art Petty | Oct 31, 2019 | Art of Managing, Career, Decision-Making, Leadership
Pressure-to-Produce Distorts the Decision-Process At some point, the Boeing 737 Max situation will be taught in b-schools as a case on ethics, decision-making, and leadership. For now, the situation is playing out via congressional testimony and the news media. On the...
by Art Petty | Sep 30, 2019 | Career Re-mix, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine Podcast
David Loy, CEO of Leverage Creative Group, is one of those rare, fabulous interview subjects who ranges comfortably from his firm’s services to his personal leadership philosophy, to the challenges in learning to be a CEO on-the-job, and much more. I met David...
by Art Petty | Sep 24, 2019 | Career, Decision-Making, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine, Leading Change, Think Differently
“Seriously, do you have to be a jerk to get ahead in this organization?” The “jerk” question comes up fairly frequently in my travels coaching emerging leaders. Unfortunately, my inability to utter “Absolutely not!” surprises and...
by Art Petty | Sep 16, 2019 | Career, Career Re-mix, Just One Thing, Leadership, Leading Change, Think Differently
Every year I read Peter Drucker’s classic article, “Managing Oneself” (HBR, subscription required or via other collections) as part of my personal-professional career navigation process. His powerful questions and frank commentary on what we need to...
by Art Petty | Apr 11, 2019 | Challenging Conversations, Emerging Leaders, Leadership, Leading Change, Project Management, Strategy
Black Holes, Missed Opportunities, and Alternate Universes Leading the sales efforts for multiple software firms throughout my career, one of the issues that kept me awake at night was the idea that there were deals out there we didn’t know about in spite of our...
