Lead from Within

MARCH 7, 2024

How Can AI Enhance Our Operations? As a leader, it’s pivotal to delineate specific use cases where AI can amplify processes, elevate productivity, and yield superior outcomes. Your workforce might be eager to understand how AI can benefit the organization.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 5, 2023

In this in-depth exploration, we will delve into tips and strategies to manage your small business finances during a crisis and emerge more resilient than ever. Understanding these vulnerabilities is the first step towards effective crisis management. Are there inefficiencies you can address?

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The Practical Leader

APRIL 5, 2023

Hmm…oh, oh… Looking at the typical approach they’ve used before, four common strategic planning problems immediately popped out: The agenda was loaded with about 17 project/operational presentations/reviews and updates. The session focused on operational and tactical issues. Nap by PowerPoint. How do you know?

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Anyone paying attention to current events has recently witnessed that it doesn’t really matter whether you’re a politician, investment banker, CEO, or just an average citizen, when it comes to making a simple decision, managing a crisis, or attempting to exploit an opportunity, timing is everything.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Bottom line - toxic individuals kill productivity, and if allowed to run unchecked can have a much broader and deeper impact on an organization than one might think. offers quick, practical management tips and ideas from HBR.org. A bad attitude isn’t something good leaders take lightly.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved. Under it, people were managed.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 23, 2010

Fact : bright, talented executives with a bias to action will often take on more than they should.

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In the CEO Afterlife

DECEMBER 31, 2011

My fascination isn’t my productivity; rather, it is the source of the idea. There has to be a break from day-to-day operations in the process. Brand Managers inherit brands and manage existing franchises. Crisis Management: The Ultimate Test of a Leader [link]. ” Self-assessment is never easy.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 9, 2010

What about competing against the innovation of others that could cause the obsolescence of your product or service? Well actually, no it’s not. You will also be competing to retain talented employees that other companies would like to lure away. How about competing for the attention of your prospects and clients?

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N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

MARCH 18, 2010

Also, a common response is to confuse a sales engine, fulfillment process, operational process, technology platform, or any number of other areas as business models, where this is not the case. Furthermore, a business plan, strategic plan, marketing plan, capital formation plan, exit plan, etc., are also not business models.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 25, 2010

If your organization confuses loyalty and tenure there is trouble on the horizon…If your business rates tenure higher than performance as a measure for employee evaluation, it is time for you to consider updating your talent management practices and procedures. So, what’s wrong with tenure you ask?

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 11, 2010

Leadership is a full-contact sport, and if you cannot address conflict in a healthy, productive fashion then you should not be in a leadership role. Unresolved conflict often results in a loss of productivity, stifles creativity, and creates barriers to cooperation. If so, you likely have issues with conflict.

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Experience to Lead

DECEMBER 18, 2023

There’s no time for poorly-managed conversations when running a business or an organization. If you’re someone who doesn’t take too kindly to “bossy” managers that push people around, the good news is that this doesn’t have to be your approach. As a result, individuals grow more productive and feel a stronger sense of job contentment.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 26, 2010

The most productive, high-performance organizations have the ability to deliver fairly complex solutions, and complete difficult tasks at the lowest levels within their organization.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2010

A leader’s message has a direct impact on their personal and corporate brand equity, how they manage a crisis, marketing initiatives, investor relations, press and public relations, team building and employee engagement, and virtually any other mission critical area of chief executive responsibility.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 3, 2011

Give me real leaders who possess courage, vision, and a bias toward action, and spare me the timidity of mediocre managers posing as leaders. If change and innovation weren’t key contributors to sustainable success, and the enterprise could just run on auto-pilot, you could replace the CEO with a General Manager.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 20, 2011

In today’s post I’ll share my thoughts on how to control gossip in the workplace… If what you desire as an executive is to have a healthy, thriving, and productive company, it is essential that you curtail office gossip.

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 6, 2010

Posted on July 7th, 2010 by admin in Leadership , Operations & Strategy , Rants 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.

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 20, 2010

Avoid controversy, maintain a high likeability factor, consistently and proactively engage your customers, be a business of character that engenders trust and confidence with your target market(s), produce a quality product or service at a competitive price point, and provide great customer service.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 22, 2010

The harsh reality is that great numbers of leaders continue to operate in a vacuum by sequestering themselves away in the corner office and attempting to lead from afar. So the real question is this…how does a CEO get to the point of being so disconnected from operations that he or she just doesn’t have a clue?

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 21, 2011

Posted on January 21st, 2011 by admin in Leadership , Miscellaneous , Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Entrepreneur, CEO or Both? Perhaps you were the right person for the job initially, but has the company outgrown your management ability? Which hat, or hats do you wear?

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N2Growth Blog

JULY 2, 2010

There are many so-called management gurus in today’s politically correct world who would take great exception to what I’m putting forth in today’s post.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2010

If efficiency starts diluting productivity rather than increasing it something is woefully amiss. What I want you to recognize is that sometimes the least efficient thing can be lead to the most productive outcome. So much so, that I have really come to cringe every time I hear the word efficiency.

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N2Growth Blog

AUGUST 24, 2010

Even solid world class institutions like the University of California Berkeley under the leadership of Chancellor Birgeneau & Provost Breslauer are firing employees, staff, faculty and part-time lecturers through “Operational Excellence (OE) initiative”: last year 600 were fired, this year 300.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 16, 2011

Have you figured out how to apply the laws of scarcity to brand management? While a brand without exposure is not much of a brand, I consistently find that brand exposure is an aspect of brand management that is all too often overlooked as a success metric. If not, then this post is for you. will go into decline.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 16, 2010

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? If your company’s long-term business plan requires the acquisition, or retention of the uber employee then your business not only has a risk management issue, but it is likely not scalable.

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In the CEO Afterlife

MARCH 7, 2015

Mistrust of senior management. Strategic and operational paralysis has become the norm. Too many operational changes. There’s a rift within top management and everyone knows it. New products are “me-to” brand line extensions. Product discounting is chronic. Too many meetings. Stars leave.

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N2Growth Blog

JUNE 14, 2010

So, in today’s post I’ll examine the power of disruption as a key business driver… Disruptive business models focus on creating, disintermediating, refining, reengineering or optimizing a product/service, role/function/practice, category, market, sector, or industry.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Perhaps most importantly they have the ability to align interests and sell the vision unifying leadership, management, staff and external stakeholders as well. Great leaders understand how to manage conflict and close positional gaps. Want to find out? Section III: Strategy. Section VI: Persuasiveness.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Nowhere will you find a better model for servant leadership, vision casting, discipleship, good decisioning, discernment, self-leadership, intentional leadership, crisis management, character based leadership, etc.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2010

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The following fundamental concepts of influence, which if properly understood and implemented, can help anyone become more efficient, productive and successful: 1. i.e. Will my employees ever respect/lean on an assistant manager rather than the manager? What are some ways that influence can be possessed by my leadership staff?

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The most productive leaders I know have the ability to be extremely nice, very civil and always polite while maintaining the ability to be direct, focused, and candid. Context, fluidity, and other nuanced behaviors are positive traits to embrace so long as they don’t serve as an excuse for a lack of discipline.

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N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2011

and Mike Myatt, Productivity links. Productivity links said: n2growth.com: Looking For Leadership: By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Really? Can manager be leaders? Identifying leaders? Have we really degenerated to this point? This post was mentioned on Twitter by Mike Henry Sr. Identifying leader… [link] [.]

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N2Growth Blog

APRIL 5, 2010

My experience with most executives & entrepreneurs is that they are totally committed to and focused on success.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. They make bad decisions.

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