One Piece of PaperReview

Priya Ravichandran

http://www.onepieceofpaper.com

Leadership seems complicated to many. With competing philosophies and methods, as well as a rapidly changing workplace, is it possible to clearly, succinctly, and simply convey your personal approach to leading others?

One Piece of Paper provides an authentic, accessible model for any leader to do just that. Simple, applicable, and without pretense, it’s real leadership for the real world.

Mike Figliuolo

Managing Director, thoughtLEADERS,LLCTwitter: @Figliuolohttp://www.thoughtleadersllc.com/team/mike-figliuolo/

ACCOLADESIf you want your team to work both harder and smarter buy this book-Keith Ferrazi

Mike maxims approach provides a simple yet profound template for developing kind of synergy, trust and confidence essential for successful organizations-Robert F Foley

Because Mike Figliuolo is a leader himself, he truly understands the challenges leaders face in the real business world. His guidance and advice are practical and in One Piece of Paper he zeroes in on the skills leaders need to compete effectively in today’s global environment.”Gail Leiber

ONE PIECE OF PAPER

“…I invite you to embark on that journey of understanding who you are as a leader, who you want to be, and how you would like to get there. You are going to define your entire leadership philosophy—on one piece of paper.”

ONE SINGLE SOLITARY PAGE“…the method for defining one’s leadership philosophy is common to all leaders but the output of that process is as varied as the shapes of snowflakes.”-PAGE(17)

BUZZKILL

My leadership philosophy is to optimally leverage the passions of my people such that at the end of the day we maximize employee engagement to get them think outside the box and synergistically drive value added activities in a profit-maximizing way that is a win-win for our people , our shareholders, and our customers”.-PAGE(15)

LEADERSHIP MAXIMSHelps to articulate who they are on a piece of paper

WHAT IS A MAXIM??

A maxim is a principle or rule of conduct

FOUR ASPECTS OF LEADERSHIP

• Leading yourself• Leading the thinking• Leading your people• Leading a balanced life

ASPECTS OF LEADERSHIP

LEADING YOURSELF Why do you get out of bed everyday? How will you shape your future ? What guidelines do you live by? When you fall down, how do you pick yourself back up? How do you hold yourself accountable?

LEADING THE THINKING

What standards do you hold your team to? Where are you taking your people? How will you foresee the future? How will you drive action?

LEADING YOUR PEOPLE

What is your natural style? How will you remember to treat your team members

as individuals? How will you stay connected to your team’s reality ? How will you commit to your people’s growth?

LEADING A BALANCED LIFE How will you define your boundaries? How will you keep things in perspective? What are you passionate about?

MAKING IT REAL

Living your maxims Sharing

STRENGTHS:• Comprehensible

• Simple yet profound• Personal Leadership can be improved

if implemented

TASK

Take a piece of paper and start writing personal leadership maxims…

Make Sure you follow the maxims you wrote…