Archive July 2010
What If Leadership Was More Than a Buzzword
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth What if “Leadership” was more than a buzzword? What If…What if leadership was more than just another contentious term bantered around in meaningless conversations? What if leadership was truly understood, modeled, and actually experienced as the rule and not the exception? In the text that follows I’ll answer these questions and hopefully encourage you ...
Confidence vs. Arrogance
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Confidence vs. Arrogance…is it merely a question of semantics? I think not. While confidence can be mistaken for arrogance, and vice-versa, they are clearly not interchangeable terms. When you think of yourself as a leader do you view yourself as having the quiet confidence of David or the ...
Leadership & Change
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth First the bad news: If you’re not willing to embrace change you’re not ready to lead. Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Now the good news: ...
Leaders: Born or Made?
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Leaders: born or made? While there is a very simple answer to this question, most people are so entrenched in their beliefs no amount of reason or logic will alter their opinions. But that’s never stopped me before… For my part, I would actually like to make an attempt at putting this useless ...
Great Leaders on Leadership
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I read a wonderful blog post the other day by Chad Missildine (@ChadMissildine) in which the meat of the post consisted of a compilation of answers to an open-ended question he posted on Facebook and Twitter. I thought this was such a brilliant idea that I decided to apply it to the topic ...
Leadership Interview – John Maxwell
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth For those of you interested in the topic of leadership John Maxwell (@johncmaxwell - www.johnmaxwellonleadership.com) likely needs no introduction. John is probably one of the world’s best known and most respected authors and speakers on the subject of leadership. A New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Business Week best-selling author, ...
Leadership Interview – Marshall Goldsmith
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I recently had the pleasure of spending about 40 minutes on the phone with Marshall Goldsmith (@coachgoldsmith) whom I consider to be one of the best executive coaches in the business. In fact, I hold Marshall in such high professional regard that he is one of only three other ...
Leadership Interview – John Baldoni
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth There’s a lot of noise in the leadership space – in fact, there are so many coaches, experts, consultants, gurus, etc., professing leadership acumen and expertise that it can be tough to distinguish between the posers and the players. Over the next few days I’m going to sprinkle in three ...