In the book, The Leadership Contract , author Vince Molianro shares that not only is leadership hard work, but also a lot of us inadvertently make the hard work harder . Therefore, Molianro recommends you: Don't get in over your head -- where you are in situations where you are unable to take your performance to a higher level. Where you are creating risk to yourself and your organization. Confuse rough with tough -- Mistreating, disrespecting and insulting others is rough, not tough. Mistake effort for results -- Keeping yourself busy by toiling away at drudgery is very different from tackling real hard work of leadership. Feel like the victim -- Everybody gets frustrated at work. That's normal. But leaders need to be able to move through the frustration. Be insecure -- The key to overcoming insecurities begins by admitting that you have them. Need good news -- Your job as a leader is not to avoid, ignore, or deny bad news. It's to find out the bad new
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