Leadership Faux Pas #7 – Not Taking Time To Unplug Recently I took a 2 week period and simply unplugged from my business. As difficult as it was to walk away for 2 weeks, I was reminded of the importance of taking time to unplug in order to recharge my batteries. As a leader there…
Leadership Faux Pas #6 – Being Disingenuous The Ellen Disingenuous Show? Recently a friend of mine was telling me about her experience visiting a series of TV talk shows. I was curious about her experience so I asked her a series of questions regarding the various hosts. What was most astonishing to me was the…
Leadership Faux Pas #5 – Lack of Focus “When you don’t know your why, you don’t have purpose … when you don’t have purpose, you don’t have clarity … when you don’t have clarity you don’t have focus and without focus you can’t accomplish a damn thing!” Joe Contrera A lack of focus will…
Leadership Faux Pas #4 – Turning A Blind Eye? Are you turning a blind eye to issues in your business? What a leader chooses to see or not to see can have a negative impact on their business. More importantly … being aware of an issue and not taking the necessary steps to address and…
“The single most important characteristic of any leader is self honesty; without it you can’t lead anyone.” Joe Contrera Recently I was interviewed by Dr. Mathew Norton of The Mindfluence Revolution on the topic of Leadership. If you’re interested in hearing the interview simply click here …. According to Joe Contrera, leadership is not a reward…
Leadership Faux Pas #3 – Being Close-Minded “Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” Isaac Asimov Are you a close-minded leader? We all see the world through our lens of perception. Everyone of us experiences the world differently because our lenses…
Leadership Faux Pas #2 – Being Faux Real Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 6 months you have been bombarded faux people making faux claims in an attempt to come across as being faux real! All in an attempt to be elected to the highest leadership office in the world. It feels like…
Leadership Faux Pas #1 – Taking Things Personally In his ground-breaking book, The Four Agreements, author Don Miguel Ruiz wrote that taking things personally along with making assumptions was the equivalent of “a personal hell on earth!” As a leader taking things personally is a path to creating a personal hell for everyone in the…
10 Actions to Increase Your Impact As a Leader … People always ask me, “What can I do to increase my impact as a leader?” That said, everyone has a few things they may need to tweak have more impact as a leader. And yet many leaders have blind-spots that are giving them the exact…
Bad Habits: Are You A Fixer Upper? A mentor of mine, Dr. Nido Qubein once told me … “Joe, be careful who you spend time with because that is who you will become.” There is another thought that says if you look at where you’ re spending your time and money … that is a…