Archive August 2009
The National Debt
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Today’s post on the National Debt will be short and to the point. While I could easily digress and reduce this discussion to a partisan political diatribe, I promise to resist the temptation. This post is written for every American citizen regardless of political affiliation, or socioeconomic status. Every American, as well ...
The Death of Home Depot
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth While in flight today I had the opportunity to read an interview in “Fortune” with Home Depot’s CFO, Carol Tome. As a prelude to the interview, Home Depot’s CEO, Frank Blake proudly stated that he had placed Tome in charge of the company’s growth initiatives, at which time ...
Cutting Employee Churn
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Today’s Myatt on Monday’s question comes from a CEO who asked: “Our employee turnover is higher than I would like it to be. If you had to point out one factor that drives employee churn, what would that be?” Few things in business are as costly and disruptive ...
Why Accountability Matters
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Accountability and transparency are hot topics today, and rightly so…Given this new found popularity, I felt that a piece delving into the topic of accountability would be both prudent and timely. Frankly, considering what the lack of accountability has done to our nation’s economy and political structure we should all be ...
Are You Culturally Savvy?
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth What do I mean by “culturally savvy“? I am not addressing the topic of being politically correct, rather I want you to focus on the importance of simply being cognizant that there is a larger cultural impact on how business is conducted today than ever before. Cultural differences often exist within ...
Fear, Failure, Risk and Success
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Because risk management as it applies to executive decisioning is a subject that is not adequately addressed in the educational world, it is often left to lessons of experience. As such, learning how to recognize, understand, quantify and manage risk is one of those lessons that often comes at a very high price. While each individual has ...
CEOs In Crisis
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth CEOs are in a state of crisis. As an adviser to CEOs, I can tell you that chief executives are under siege on all fronts…This is clearly a defining time for CEOs as an occupational class. To be clear, I’m not using the term “crisis” as it relates to dealing with the ...