By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth While the text that follows will be brief, it truly merits the attention of anyone still grappling with 2010 budget concerns. I'm going to share something with you that you might not want to hear, and quite frankly, something that will likely send your...

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Times are tough, and they're likely to get tougher, so my question is this; Should you, or should you not consider a move toward corporate reengineering? Whether directly or indirectly, your business will likely face negative repercussions of the struggling...

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Social media influence; the harsh reality is that you either have it or you don't. I'm going to tell you the cold hard truth about social media...what you need to know that most people won't tell you. While anyone can have a social media presence,...

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth This week's CEO spotlight profiles Steve Alter, CEO and Co-Founder of Real Capital Markets (RCM1). Since 1999, RCM1 has been the recognized leader in providing online transaction management services to the institutional real estate community. With...

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth The issues surrounding conflict resolution can be best summed-up in three words..."Deal With It". Conflict Resolution is a skill set necessary for survival in today's business world. While you can try and avoid conflict (bad idea), you cannot escape conflict...The...

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth I was recently asked: "I've heard reference to executive teams that utilize 'war rooms' for strategy development. Is this beneficial?" Let me begin by stating that any tools or techniques that bring executive teams together for the purposes of consistent...

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth Is leading change difficult? Only if you don't know what you're doing. 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 leading change is really quite simple....

By Mike Myatt, Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth The thoughts that follow are building off of last week's post entitled "Shut-up & Listen." If you thouht I took it too far last week, then what I'm about to espouse below will quite probably cause many of you to think "Myatt has finally lost it." That...