CEOs
Why Your Leadership Is Overrated
How are your leadership skills? Likely not as good as you think.
By: Mike Myatt
Leadership and Resourcing
It’s not what you have, but what you’re able to make out of what you have that matters.
By: Mike Myatt
Leadership & Loyalty
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth For those of you not familiar with the two characters from Band of Brothers depicted above, they are polar opposites in terms of their approach to leadership. Captain Soble (left) represents a leader in rank only, whose efforts to intimidate his men are a classic example of fear ...
Leadership & Emotional Control
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth If the above photo resembles a typical leadership meeting at your place of work then you may want to read this post. FACT: Leaders who lack emotional control won’t remain in a position of leadership for long. There has been no shortage of information published on the topic ...
Questions and Team Building
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth An army of one isn’t really much of an army is it? And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. Whether you like it or not, your success as a CEO will be largely tied to your team building ...
Leveraging Down for CEOs
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth If you desire to become a successful leader at any level, much less a top CEO, it will be essential for you to master the art of leveraging down. The simple truth is that all great leaders are highly skilled in matters of delegation. Think of any top performing CEO and ...
Leadership & Employee Engagement
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer,N2growth The topic of “Employee Engagement” is something that many CEOs tend to struggle with. Long gone are the days where the executive leadership of a company can remain sequestered in their offices with an internal focus on hard metrics. Given the current economic climate, it takes far more than cost-cutting to ...
Is Starbucks an Economic Bellwether?
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Is Starbucks and economic bellwether, have they just been mismanaged, or are consumers simply becoming more savvy? Why do I ask, or perhaps more to the point, why do I care? Whenever an industry giant stumbles there are lessons to be learned. If you couple Starbucks recent earnings announcements, with ...
Are CEOs Getting a Bad Rap
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Are CEOs getting a bad rap? In a word, yes. As a top ceo coach, I can tell you that CEOs are under siege…in fact, I would go so far as to say that CEOs as an occupational class are in a state of crisis. I understand that Americans ...
Rogue CEOs & Board Accountability
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Rogue CEOs…given the recent failure of banks and financial institutions previously thought to be untouchable, there has been a tremendous amount of justifiable venom being spewed at the CEOs of these firms. Their ignorance, and in some cases their arrogance, allowed these rogue CEOs to operate outside of normal business rules, conduct self-serving ...
Due Diligence – Not Optional…
By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth As much as you wish it might be so, due diligence is really not an optional consideration. Have you ever made a decision based upon what you thought was a thorough understanding of all pertinent information only to find out after the fact that you didn’t know as ...