Archive December 2010
Family Matters
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth For the last post of the year I decided to update a piece I published earlier this year – I also consider it to be the most important work I authored this year…it applies to all of us. Over the years I’ve come to believe that there is only ...
Success vs. Significance
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth As one year draws to a close and another begins, I can think of no better time to dust off an old post and ask you to ponder the difference between success and significance. Some would say that any discussion along this topic line is nothing more than a ...
Top Leaders of 2010
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Most people are familiar with the myriad of celebrity leader lists that get published this time of year – Top 10 CEOs, Top 1o World Leaders, Top 10 Entrepreneurs, etc., but you’ll not find that here. In today’s post I’m asking you to nominate the everyday community leader - the soldiers, first ...
Guest Post – Kevin Eikenberry
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Leadership absent perspective is little more than an exercise in frivolity. Today’s guest post by Kevin Eikenberry (@kevineikenberry) really resonates with me because it’s chalk full of leadership perspective. For those of you not familiar with Kevin, he is a two-time best selling author and the Chief Potential Officer of ...
Leadership Self Examination
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Are you a good leader? Want to find out? If you’re looking to benchmark your leadership ability the following self examination will give you a baseline to build from. While this test is not as detailed as more comprehensive assessments, I have nonetheless found it to be fairly thorough. That said, any self exam ...
Growth by Partnering
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth If corporate growth is what you seek, but you lack the patience to endure the slow pace of organic growth, and don’t have the capital necessary to finance an acquisition binge, then you might want to consider the many benefits associated with partnering. While the concept of creating a strategic partnership is familiar to many, ...
Vision vs. Mission
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Today’s Myatt on Monday’s question was posed by a CEO who asked: “Can you define the difference between vision and mission?” What a great question…it’s always refreshing to me when an executive checks their ego and asks a clarifying question (a characteristic of great leaders by the way) rather than pretend they ...