by Michael Picconatto | Jun 15, 2016 | Leadership
Last week about arrogance versus confidence. After having been accused of being arrogant, I had to start to to develop a leadership approach that I felt was more in line with how I wanted to lead and have my leadership perceived. I began reading books about...
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 | Jul 2, 2015 | Book Review, Leadership
I have recently picked up the habit of listening to audio books while I do some of my normal tasks in the kitchen. I found Ed Catmull’s book, Creativity, Inc while I was searching through a list of best-sellers. Buzz Lightyear is on the cover, and since I have...
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