Leadership
CEO Success…It’s not Random
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Success is not random…CEOs need to realize that neither their success, nor their failure is a random act. CEOs also can rarely lay blame for their victories and losses on anyone other than themselves. Top CEOs have a knack for consistently exhibiting the right combination of skill sets, competencies, leadership aptitude, ...
Strengths vs. Weaknesses
By Mike Myatt Should you play to your strengths or shore-up your weaknesses? If you pose this question to a group of professionals some will answer play to your strengths, some will answer shore-up weaknesses and others will answer both. The truth is that they are all correct to a degree…The real answer lies in understanding ...
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 ...
Leadership vs. Management
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth As a person who makes their living in the field of leadership, I can tell you without any doubt that “Leadership” is different than “Management.” While there seems to be a never ending stream of politically correct pontificating in corporate circles about the differences between managers and leaders, most of ...
Family Business
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Family Business…a quote from Charles Dickens sums up my feelings about family businesses: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” Oh what a conundrum…Family business; should I, or shouldn’t I? Today’s Myatt on Monday’s question comes from an entrepreneur who asks: “Should I ...
Top Leadership Movies
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Top leadership movies…you may be thinking “can anything about leadership actually be learned by watching movies?” You bet. I was recently asked for my opinion about which movies I felt were the top leadership movies of all time. After thinking about my answer for a few minutes, I realized that while ...
Trust and CEOs
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth If you’re a CEO, are you trusted? If you’re not the CEO, do you trust your chief executive? Steve Rubel, the Director of Insights for Edelman Digital, and one of my favorite bloggers (Micro Persuasion blog) was recently quoted as saying “People have not trusted CEOs for years, and especially ...
Are You A Thought Leader?
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Thought Leadership…What is a thought leader, and what does thought leadership mean in today’s business world? As much as some people wish it wasn’t so, a thought leader is not someone who simply restates someone else’s views and positions. Furthermore, beyond uniqueness of thought, a true thought leader’s positions also ...
Robert Gates on Leadership
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Robert Gates is the 22nd US Secretary of Defense. He has served 8 US Presidents, was an officer is the US Air Force, his history with the CIA ranged from an intelligence operator to the Director of the Agency, and he even served as a college president along ...
Ego and the Art of the Deal
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth While the art of closing a deal requires great skill, it takes almost no effort whatsoever to blow-up a transaction. One of the fastest ways to watch a deal vaporize right before your eyes is to let your ego write checks that your skill can’t cash. If you want to close the deal, ...
CEO Profile: Brad Smith, Intuit
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Brad Smith is the President and CEO of Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU). Intuit is a leading provider of financial management, tax, and online banking solutions with more than $3 billion in annual revenue, and more than 8,000 employees. While Brad is well known for his strong commitment to innovation, ...