Archive April 2011
Leadership & Changing Your Mind
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How difficult is it for you to change your mind? When was the last time you changed your mind? Do you consistently challenge your own thinking, or do you wait for others to bring the challenge to you? When your thinking is confronted, how do you react? I’ve often ...
M&A Without Buying the Company
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Most people tend to look at acquisitions from a rather myopic and traditional M&A perspective: making a strategic or synergistic purchase of an operating entity on an accretive basis. However restricting your view of acquisitions to operating companies is like playing a football game with only one play in your playbook. The truth is that acquisitions aren’t just ...
Leadership & Courage
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Courage is a trait possessed by all great leaders. So much so, that leadership absent courage is nothing short of a farce. Let me be very clear – I’m not advocating for bravado, arrogance, or an overabundance of hubris, but the courage necessary to stay the course and ...
Leadership – What’s Next?
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth There is no shortage of debate surrounding leadership when it comes to philosophy, style, definitional distinctions, nuances, complex theory, etc. That said, I believe most reasonable people would agree leadership is nothing if not personal. Leadership can represent a pursuit, discipline, practice, passion, calling, skill, competency, obligation, duty, compulsion, or even an obsession. I’ve ...
The Leadership Line
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I had an email yesterday from a CEO who described himself as “constantly being sucked down into the weeds.” In helping him walk through the logic of why and where to allocate his time, I used the information in the video above as a baseline illustration for discussion purposes. The constructs ...
The Problem With Key Employees
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth What is a key employee, and who is worthy of such a title? Much has been written on the subject of key employees, and in my opinion, most of it flat misses the mark. In fact, I’ll go so far as to say what most people refer to as ...
Capital vs. Influence
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have watched entrepreneurs and executives initially trivialize the value of influence in a capital transaction, only to regret it down the road. Savvy CEOs simply aren’t in a rush to close the deal and secure the funding if it means sacrificing knowledge, experience or influence. Impulsivity has a huge cost when ...