b'5 Leadership Lessons for Contractorsabused by an unkind player, and Lasso said, "You From Ted Lassoknow what? The happiest animal on earth is a goldfish because a goldfish has a 10-second memory. After that, it can\'t remember a thing." Its critical as a contractor to be able to live through and learn from making mistakes and tough times. There will always be more, but dwelling on them helps no one. 3 | Define success. Ted Lasso measured success by the improvement of his team, the improvement in the attitudes of his players, the camaraderie in the locker room and the scoreboard and standings. You would, of course, measure success differently in business. You define your mission, vision and values. Are you being true to them at all times? What are your targets? My wife recently introduced me to the delightfulWhat are your goalposts? What do you want your streaming series Ted Lasso. I thought it\'s going tovolume to be? What do you want your gross profit to be some overly sweet thing. But, despite myself, Ibe? How many new people do you want to hire? actually liked itand noticed a variety of leadership lessons.Business lends itself to targets, goals and numbers; it is exceedingly quantifiable. Set your goals, set your Ted Lasso is a successful American football coachtargets and define your success. hired to move to England to run a struggling European football team (what wed call soccer) in the4 | Stick to the truth and do the right thing.English Premier League. There\'s great conflictLasso said, "Doing the right thing is never the wrong between the previous owner of the team and his ex- thing. Tell the truth." That is so fundamental in wife, the current owner. She\'s trying to bankrupt himbusiness. It\'s quite difficult to do at times because and generally make his life miserable, and so shepeople don\'t like to hear bad things. They don\'t like to hired Lasso, an American who knew nothing abouthear negative truths. There are no real shortcuts in life, soccer and was set up to fail from the start.and doing the right thing is sometimes very hard. It But instead, Lasso became a remarkable success.doesn\'t mean it\'s not the right thing to do, however. Similarly, the show started off in 2020 with little5 | Surround yourself with knowledgeable people.fanfare and became a cultural phenomenon.Lasso didn\'t know anything about soccer. His lack of Here are six leadership lessons that a contractortechnical knowledge seemed like a great barrier to his should take away from Ted Lasso: success, but it turned out not to be a barrier at all 1 | Lean into optimism.because he surrounded himself with people who knew the game. And so, Lassos lack of technical skills When Lasso meets the soccer team for the first time,didn\'t matter. He let his staff inform decisions and let he put up a large, hand-lettered sign over the doorthem help guide the team. that read, "Believe." He was all about optimismabout himself, his team, his coaches and hisIf you don\'t have perfect technical knowledge, organizationand had an abundance mindset. Thesurround yourself with people who do, and you\'ll get team was struggling, but he wasn\'t going to settle forthere. that because he believed they could succeed. Contractors are usually fiercely motivated, and theyCo-Founder/President, Performance Construction Advisorsdont like to settle for mediocrity. Lean into Wayne Rivers is the president of Performance optimism when your business is struggling andConstruction Advisors. PCA\'s mission is to build believe you can succeed. better contractors! Wayne can be reached at 877-326-2493, wrivers@performanceconstruction.com, 2 | Practice resilience.or on the web at performanceconstructionadvisors.com.In one of the episodes, a coach had been verbally 11'