Archive May 2009
Are You A Thought Leader?
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Thought Leadership…What is a thought leader, and what does thought leadership mean in today’s business world? As much as some people wish it wasn’t so, a thought leader is not someone who simply restates someone else’s views and positions. Furthermore, beyond uniqueness of thought, a true thought leader’s positions also ...
Robert Gates on Leadership
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Robert Gates is the 22nd US Secretary of Defense. He has served 8 US Presidents, was an officer is the US Air Force, his history with the CIA ranged from an intelligence operator to the Director of the Agency, and he even served as a college president along ...
Ego and the Art of the Deal
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth While the art of closing a deal requires great skill, it takes almost no effort whatsoever to blow-up a transaction. One of the fastest ways to watch a deal vaporize right before your eyes is to let your ego write checks that your skill can’t cash. If you want to close the deal, ...
CEO Profile: Brad Smith, Intuit
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Brad Smith is the President and CEO of Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU). Intuit is a leading provider of financial management, tax, and online banking solutions with more than $3 billion in annual revenue, and more than 8,000 employees. While Brad is well known for his strong commitment to innovation, ...
CEO Marketing Priorities
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth The fact that CEO marketing priorities need to be extremely focused in this tough economic environment should go without saying. The days of spending just for the sake of spending are long gone. As the above graph denoting responses from an eMarketer survey of C-level executive displays, by ...
The Problem with Economics
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth What’s wrong with our economy? Why can’t we seem to fix it? Where do we go from here? If you listen to current administration, they’ll tell you that they have “our best economic minds” engaged in solving this crisis, and therein lies the problem…Put simply, the real problem with economics ...
Influence and Personal Branding
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I’m often asked how to tangibly measure personal brand equity and my answer is quite simple…The value of a personal brand is directly proportionate to its ability to create and wield influence. When it comes to the subject of personal branding much has been written about authenticity, transparency, ...
My Philosophy on Valuations
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth While my philosophy on valuations hasn’t changed in years, my feeling as to their importance has. Valuations are always a dicey proposition, but even more so given today’s business climate. I can’t think of a time in recent history where having third party validation for your valuation metrics has been ...
The Math Doesn’t Lie
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Today’s announcement by President Obama that he will reduce federal spending by $100 million dollars is nothing short of laughable. This move insults the intelligence of all Americans, and is nothing more than a pathetic attempt at pandering and political posturing. In today’s post I’m going to begin by ...