April, 2011

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Keeping It Simple

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By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. One of the most effective ways to order your world is to simplify everything you encounter. However the problem is that keeping it simple often becomes very difficult when our basic human nature is to over-complicate everything we touch. In thinking about the people I respect the most, to the one, they possess the uncanny ability to take the most complicated of issues and simplify them.

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Leadership & Courage

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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 to do the right things.

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Leadership & Changing Your Mind

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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 said the rigidity of a closed mind is the first step in limiting opportunity.

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Social Media for CEOs

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By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Nary a week passes where I don’t hear from a CEO who’s grappling with this social media conundrum: should I, or shouldn’t I? The inquiry usually goes something like this: “I’m interested in learning more about social media, but my board thinks it’s a bad idea, I don’t have any additional bandwidth, and I’m not even sure where to start…is social media really effective for CEOs?

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Leadership – What’s Next?

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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.

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Leading Above The Line

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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 the information in the video above as a baseline illustration for discussion purposes. The constructs of this video compose a visual I developed more than 20 years ago, and the interesting thing is that it’s applicationally as sound today as

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M&A Without Buying the Company

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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.