by Michael Picconatto | Jun 8, 2016 | Leadership
I am convinced that many leaders have a huge blind spot when it comes to determining the difference between arrogance and confidence. When I was 29 years old I started working as a senior pastor in an amazing church in Minnesota. As a 29-year old with 6 years of...
by Michael Picconatto | Jun 1, 2016 | Leadership
In July, 2012, my family left rural Minnesota to move to Berlin, Germany. There were a lot of things I expected to learn and process, but I did not expect that I would discover a connection between language learning and leadership. Language Learning and Leadership?...
by Michael Picconatto | May 25, 2016 | Leadership
Leadership and Sleep Did you know that there is a connection between leadership and sleep? Last week Huffington Post reporter Sarah DiGuilo posted an article about how sleep makes you a better boss. In it she cites a new study in the Journal of Applied Psychology...
by Michael Picconatto | May 18, 2016 | Leadership
Last week I was in Turkey for a conference, and I ran a couple of times with Jason Nelson (our speaker) and Blind-Spot cofounder Don Jones. One morning we decided to run up the “mountain” outside of our resort near Izmir. Total distance run – a...
by Michael Picconatto | May 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Beenish Kahn, an engineer at Help Scout wrote a great article recently entitled, Why Having Hobbies Can Make You More Creative in Your Work. When I moved to Germany in July of 2012, I had developed a specific set of hobbies that fit my American lifestyle. We had a...
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