Archive June 2010
You Can’t Argue With Crazy
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Do your workplace communications ever feel as if you’re spending most of your time attempting to assuage the concerns of the irrational? Over the years I’ve simply come to the conclusion that many otherwise savvy business people have yet to grasp – you can’t argue with crazy. We’ve all ...
Increasing Productivity
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth “Finding The Zone” is a concept that most athletes are familiar with, but what about CEOs? We’ve all heard the sportscaster refer to an athlete as being in “the zone,” and so my question is this: “How do you find your performance zone as a CEO?” or better yet, “How do ...
Definition of Leadership
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth What’s your definition of Leadership? In thinking about the comments I’ve received from readers on the topic of leadership I noticed an interesting paradox…while many of you vehemently disagree on the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of different leadership styles, most of you are in total agreement on the qualities and attributes possessed by great ...
Disruptive Business Models
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How disruptive is your business model? While much has been written about corporate vision, mission, process, leadership, strategy, branding and a variety of other business practices, it is the engineering of these practices to be disruptive that maximizes opportunities. Without a disruptive focus you are merely building your business model on a ...
Leadership & Motivation
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Since the dawn of time leaders have argued about, struggled with and sought after the leadership “x” factor – how to effectively motivate people. While there is much debate over what does or doesn’t motivate people, there is little debate that effective motivation can make a defining difference ...
Truth & Leadership
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Leadership that is not deeply rooted in a foundation of truth is leadership destined to fail. The reality is that the best leaders are also absolutists when it comes to truth – they view truth as a non-negotiable. However in the wake of some of the recent, and highly publicized business, financial, ...