Get Yourself The Job

Jennifer Hill speaks to CEO and entrepreneur, Michael Contento, about how to optimize one’s time. Contento discusses what a person spends his or her time on, and how that can impact a person’s success. Contento also offers tips to create better time utilization. linkedin.com/in/neverquitmc Michael Contento is the entrepreneur whom other entrepreneurs consult for advice, in part because he achieved his success the old-fashioned way. The youngest boy in an Italian family of six children, Contento did not have the benefit of an MBA, or any post-secondary degrees. Instead, he worked his way up as an hourly worker making minimum wage to his current role as the CEO of My Blue Umbrella, a 40+-employee IT-services company with $12 million in revenue and a 15% compound annual growth rate. Today, Contento delivers simplicity in the form of tech management and consulting services to some of Canada’s highest-performing companies. His leadership of the Maple Leaf chapter of the Trust X Alliance, Ingram Micro's elite ass