I have had the great privilege
of spending my life’s years interacting with some of the
brightest, most innovative and stimulating people in our
country, both in my work and private life. I spent twelve
years learning from personal friend and great philosopher
Allain Ramsay, who developed and presented his unique
perspective on life and spirit. I spent five years learning
from quality expert W. Edwards Deming, who developed his
own system of profound knowledge, a system of producing
better business, educational, and life results. And I’ve
spent thousands of hours interviewing and talking with
business leaders and consultants who act, each day, on the
principles they’ve internalized and are thus effective
leaders. It has been a joy to live my life getting to know
these intellectual and business leaders who contribute to
our world—leaders who cause me to think, and often
re-think, my positions and understandings. (Sometimes I do
that re-thinking being dragged, mentally kicking and
screaming, to a new perspective, but I do learn.)
In my writings and video work I
try to apply all that I’ve learned and bring to others the
insights I’ve gained.
My
current projects:
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Op-ed pieces which apply Deming principles
to current situations in business and politics
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A book about
The Procter & Gamble
Company,
concentrating on the past 30 years, including the present.
This will show why P&G has survived and thrived for
almost 175 years and how its senior executives have made
this happen. I’m now in my 3rd year of work and have conducted
hundreds of hours of interviews with P&G’s senior
management, including the 5 living CEOs, 70-plus officers,
present and retired, and 19 board members. They have been
honest and direct. This will be a more personal look at the
leaders of a Fortune 500 company over time—and why and how
they have succeeded--than is usually done.
Bio
Highlights
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Wrote a weekly
syndicated newspaper column on people and management for 11
years. The column appeared locally in the
Cincinnati
Enquirer. Syndicated by
Gannett News
Service for their 80 or so papers.
Interviewed well over a thousand people about business.
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Wrote
Harvard
Business Review article: Interview with then
Procter & Gamble CEO John Smale
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Produced the Public
Television program on W. Edwards Deming, quality guru,
featuring Dr. Deming and CEOs of major corporations.
On-camera interviewer. Traveled with Dr. Deming as he
consulted with businesses and spoke about change at seven
of his 4-day seminars. Owned rights and sold
video/DVD, The Deming of
America, as a business training video
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Authored
What’s in It
for You and Your Firm: CEOs and Presidents Look at
Community Involvement &
Volunteerism, a book about the benefits to
business of community service; based on interviews with
corporate CEOs and Presidents
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Authored
Under a Lucky
Star, a
book about Cincinnatian Frederick Hauck
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Appeared as an
occasional guest commentator on management for the Public
Television program Nightly Business
Report
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Conceived the Media
Business Seminar. Brought all the CEOs of Cincinnati’s
major businesses together with Media leadership and hosted
an all-day and evening discussion of media/business issues
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Co-Founded (with
Oliver M. Gale) and was president, Cincinnati Oral History
Foundation
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Consulted with
businesses and acted as writer through company, Petty
Consulting Productions
Priscilla Petty graduated from
Vanderbilt University and
attended the Linguistics and Russian Institute at Dartmouth
College.
