N2Growth Blog

MARCH 9, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. You cannot be a effective leader without influence. Let me make this as simple as I can – if you’re a leader, influence needs to be a competency. The key to developing influence is understanding that contacts and relationships are not synonymous. Don’t confuse a database with a sphere of influence.

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 10, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. First the bad news : If you’re not willing to embrace change you’re not ready to lead. Put simply, leadership is not a static endeavor. In fact, leadership demands fluidity, which requires the willingness to recognize the need for change, and finally the ability to lead change. Now the good news : As much as some people want to create complexity around the topic of leading change for personal gain, the reality is that creating, managing and leadi

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 6, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. The problem with the old saying that “flattery will get you everywhere” is that those with less than pure intentions not only believe it, they act on it. The lazy, the power hungry, the greedy, the gray-trainers, the psychopaths and sociopaths all understand that flattery is not harmless. Quite to the contrary, these soothsayers understand that flattery has the power to influence, corrupt, undermine and deceive – they wield flattery as a lethal w

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