Archive June 2009
Top Leadership Movies
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Top leadership movies…you may be thinking “can anything about leadership actually be learned by watching movies?” You bet. I was recently asked for my opinion about which movies I felt were the top leadership movies of all time. After thinking about my answer for a few minutes, I realized that while ...
Managing Vendor Relationships
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Effectively managing vendor relationships is critical to the success of any business. I found the above video posted on UberCEOand thought it was brilliant. Anyone who has ever been on the receiving end of the client-vendor cramdown will surely relate to this video. The moral of the story ...
Twitter Updates for 2009-06-16
Diversity – 2 different perspectives: http://tinyurl.com/ok2fq5 and then my politically incorrect version: http://tinyurl.com/l4sxsy # @allanwhite and @fiveads thanks for the RTs # @chrislara thanks for the kind words Chris… # Do we really need decision engines (Hunch)? http://tinyurl.com/n4uc2b – how about plain old decision logic? http://tinyurl.com/aqdx8j # Liked: CEOs underpaid…the politically incorrect but true story: ...
Why I Don’t Read Newsweek
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth This video is a perfect example of why I don’t read Newsweek. Newsweek editor Evan Thomas’ characterization of Barack Obama as “sort of god” is not only absurd, but it is exactly the reason why many media outlets have zero credibility with the public. It should come as ...
Trust and CEOs
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth If you’re a CEO, are you trusted? If you’re not the CEO, do you trust your chief executive? Steve Rubel, the Director of Insights for Edelman Digital, and one of my favorite bloggers (Micro Persuasion blog) was recently quoted as saying “People have not trusted CEOs for years, and especially ...
Kudos To Wal-Mart
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth The media certainly loves to bash Wal-Mart, and Wal-Mart’s decision to not sell the newly released and profanity-laced album from the band Green Day is no exception. Green Day’s new CD is currently the number one celling CD in the country and the band is incensed that the nation’s ...
Who is Brian Deese?
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Do you know who Brian Deese is? I didn’t have a clue until Monday when I read a very disconcerting New York Times article entitled: “The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling GM.” Well, Brian Deese is in fact the 31-year old staffer for President Obama referenced in the aforementioned article, and ...
Workforce Reduction…
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Workforce reduction is not an operating strategy…Regrettably, tough economic times are often the precursor for ushering in massive rounds of corporate downsizing, rightsizing, layoffs, corporate restructurings and the like. Reducing headcount in an economic downturn is almost a Pavlovian response for many executives. It’s as if workforce reduction ...
The Truth About PR
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Much to the chagrin of traditional PR firms, the practice of public relations is changing faster than most firms can keep pace with. If the image to the left even remotely resembles how you feel when you interact with your PR firm, then it’s time to rethink things…Traditional firms who define their ...