Archive July 2007
Should I Use A Recruiter?
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I recently received an email from a CEO asking the following question: “My HR department isn’t producing the quality of applicants we need. Should I use outside recruiting firms?” Since N2growth has a talent management practice which includes a practice group that provides retained search services, in order to be ...
Financial Market Update
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth With this week’s negative market activity I have had several inquiries asking for my opinion on the direction of the stock market. Let me begin by saying that I’m not a stock picker or market prognosticator, but rather I tend to look at macro and micro economic drivers ...
How’s Your Product Mix?
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth One of the most critical choices that an executive or entrepreneur can make is to determine which sales/revenue opportunities to pursue vs. which ones to pass on. How do you determine where you will allocate your time, your resources and your talent? Do you use a rational decisioning ...
Positioning Your Business for Sale
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth While the M&A space is very frothy with transactional volumes at record levels and premium valuations abounding, the risk associated with getting deals done might just also be at an all time high. Ideally selling a business should really be about taking what the CEO believes is the ...
Business Cards…
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Okay, what’s so special about a business card? Much more than you might think In fact, I would be doing you a disservice if I didn’t tell you that a great business card is one of the most powerful pieces in your corporate identity arsenal. In today’s post ...
Is Business Formulaic?
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth You can either engineer your business by design or let it evolve by default. While the choice is clearly up to you I would strongly suggest the former over the latter. Creating a formulaic approach to business is not only logical, but it is without question the right ...
View From The Top
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How many times have you watched a CEO give a favorable assessment of expected company performance to the board of directors, the bank, shareholders, analysts, employees, or the media only to be proven woefully incorrect? I’m always amazed at the number of CEOs who are out of touch ...
Interview: Sydney Finkelstein
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth There is nary a week that passes where I don’t receive at least one inquiry asking for my opinion as to the value of an MBA in the business world. Now if you’ve been in business for any length of time I’m sure you have heard more than a few humorous ...
Innovation Management…
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Much has been written about the importance of innovation but there is very little information in circulation about how to actually stimulate innovation. While most executives and entrepreneurs have come to accept the concept of innovation management as a legitimate business practice in theory, I have found very few organizations ...
A Warrior’s Heart
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth As we approach the 4th of July I can’t help but think of our founding fathers and the sacrifices they made when they fought to establish our country’s freedom. Those thoughts of respect and admiration in turn led me to think about of our troops overseas currently fighting ...