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Promote YOUR Blog Day

Mar 11, 2010 10:03pm

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Ever wish you could promote your blog for free to a receptive audience? Well, today is your day for fully authorized, gratuitous self-promotion of YOUR blog. For one day only, this is your chance to shamelessly plug your blog in the comments section below. I stumbled across this...

Play To Win

Mar 10, 2010 10:02pm

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Today’s message is not likely to please the politically correct, nor will it mollycoddle the timid. I’m not going to address competing or playing nicely, rather I’m going to deal very bluntly with the topic of winning. Want to succeed? It’s easier than you might think…just...

Why Do Businesses Fail?

Mar 9, 2010 10:02pm

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Why do business fail? Given the current state of the economy, I would say it’s a safe bet that many of you have pondered the answer to this question as we watch companies close their doors on a daily basis. The unfortunate reality is that well more than 50% of...

Celebrity vs. Hero

Mar 8, 2010 8:42am

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth As the Academy Awards drew to a close last night I felt compelled to post the following message on Twitter: “I’d prefer a TV awards extravaganza to honor our real heroes instead of those who imitate them.” At the risk of drawing fire from the media...

Measuring Success

Mar 7, 2010 10:02pm

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth “Measuring Success” seems like a simple enough concept right? Well it is, in concept…the problem rests in the who, what, when, where, why, and how of the matter. There has always been vigorous debate surrounding the topic of success metrics, and the argument only tends...

CEO Term Limits?

Mar 4, 2010 10:03pm

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I have read some interesting articles and blog posts of late on the subject of CEO term limits, and felt this topic worthy of discussion. You should know from the outset that I fundamentally disagree with the concept of CEO term limits, and quite frankly I cannot really...

CEO Decisioning

Mar 2, 2010 10:05pm

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth You cannot separate leadership from decisioning, for like it or not, they are inexorably linked. Put simply, the outcome of a CEO’s decisions can, and usually will, make or break them. Those CEOs who avoid making decisions solely for fear of making a bad decision, or conversely those...

In Support of Strategy

Mar 1, 2010 11:01am

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth What’s with all the “strategy bashing” of late? How could sound strategic planning possibly be a bad thing? Things have spun so far out of control that I recently had a CEO ask: “Is strategy still relevant in today’s business world, and if so, what role...

Initiative Overload…

Feb 28, 2010 10:01pm

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Are you guilty of committing initiative overload? Have you bit-off more than you can chew? As we head into the final month of Q1, it is my most sincere hope that you will take pause for a bit of reflective thinking – I would ask that you...

Great Leaders Leverage Great Messaging

Feb 25, 2010 10:01pm

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Great leaders understand the power, influence, and leverage created by great messaging. Do you ever find yourself sitting back and marveling at those leaders who always seem to have the right thing to say? Contrast this with the feelings you have when you hear an awful sound-bite that makes...