Before joining RE/MAX, Adam Contos ran a SWAT team, working for a local Sheriff’s Office. He describes the job as “kicking in doors, blowing things up, and saving people.” In this episode, Adam shares that while his current professional life is completely different, his approach to leading high-performance teams remains the same. His goal is to break down barriers, blow up conventional thinking, and help as many people as possible achieve success.
“We face two kinds of pain in life,” Adam said. “We face the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. So many people get through life and they start looking back and have this pain of regret of not opening their eyes and saying, ‘I’m going to face that pain of discipline, of subjecting yourself to finding out what being successful means.”
Adam got an early start subjecting himself to the pain of discipline. On graduation day from Cherry Creek High School near Denver, when most of his friends were attending parties, he was packing his bags for boot camp after deciding to join the Marine Corps, something his uncle had done before him. Although Adam was an excellent teammate on his high school track squad, it was as a Marine that he began to develop his understanding of what made a great team.
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You will learn:
- 5:00 How to distinguish what you can control.
- 6:00 How to lead from the front.
- 12:30 How to use success as a stepping stone.
- 18:30 How to recruit people to FIT your culture.
- 24:00 The difference between a Super Bowl team and a Pro Bowl team in business.
Resources:
- Connect with Adam on LinkedIn.
- Check out Adam’s podcast ‘Start With A Win’.
- Read this episode’s Forbes.com article.
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