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Mike Myatt, is a Top CEO Coach, author of "Leadership Matters...The CEO Survival Manual" and is the Managing Director and Chief Strategy Officer at N2growth. As one of America's top CEO Coaches, Mr. Myatt is a sought after professional advisor known for his savvy, yet straight forward approach to business in serving some of the nation's top CEOs.

Rethinking Good To Great

If you're a frequent reader of this blog you know from time-to-time I'll take aim at a sacred cow and pull the trigger. I've...

Leadership and Competition

Competition is only to be feared if not understood. If understood, competition is not only healthy, but it can also be very prosperous. If...

Help – It’s not a dirty Word!

As much as some people won't want to hear this, "help" is not a dirty word. Rather asking for help is a sign of...

Leadership and Time

Time; it's the only thing we all have in common, yet it's how we choose to spend it that defines and differentiates us as...

Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

Even though a year has past since I originally posted this piece on Memorial Day and Leadership, I thought is was worth re-posting...

The Many Flavors of Leadership

There is a lot of talk about what constitutes effective leadership. As much as some won't want to admit this, there is no one-size...

Not All Research is Valid Research

I just finished reading a post by Jennifer Miller that pointed out the benefits of MBWA (Management By Walking Around – classic...

Managing Up? Use Caution.

"Managing Up" is a great catch phrase and an interesting concept – it's also a practice that can get you in deep trouble rather...

Leadership & Toxic Work Environments

I have read a tremendous amount of information over the last several months on the topic of toxic work environments. While these articles tended...

Leadership & White Space

I don't care how busy you are, but I do care about what you accomplish – the former doesn't always lead to the latter....

What’s Your Time Worth? Why Pricing Matters

Are you shooting yourself in the foot with your pricing strategy? How much is your time worth? What does your pricing say about your...

Defining Great Leadership

With all the attention and emphasis given to leadership, I have a few questions for you: Why is it that so many people refer...

Leadership & Changing Your Mind

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...

M&A Without Buying the Company

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...

Keeping It Simple

One of the most effective ways to order your world is to simplify everything you encounter. However the problem is that keeping it simple...

Leadership & Courage

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...

Discipline & Leadership

How disciplined are you as a leader? Context, fluidity, and other nuanced behaviors are positive traits to embrace so long as they don't serve...

Social Media for CEOs

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...

Leading Above The Line

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...

Leadership – What’s Next?

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...

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