Posts Tagged ‘Leadership’
Book Review: The Decision to Trust
Leaders lead through trust. More specifically, they lead when the decision to trust has been made by the follower. This is a basic premise of Dr. Robert Hurley’s new book The Decision to Trust. Hurley addresses this book to the seemingly permanent lack of trust currently felt for our businesses and government. Dr. Hurley’s purpose [...]
The Second Least Important Question in Leadership
What is the difference between leadership and management? I’m guilty of propagating this. The first issue of LeaderLab Papers featured a curated discussion on this difference. The end result of that piece, however, was that the distinction was irrelevant. And it is irrelevant, completely irrelevant. Some years ago, management was considered a more inclusive term [...]
The Dark Side of Leadership
As long-time LeaderLab readers know, in September we became a part of a project to launch Strategic Leadership Review, a practitioner focused scholarly journal.Today, we’re featuring an article from the first issue to SLR – “The Dark Side of Leadership: Catastrophic Failure” by Michael Petty. The article covers what leaders can do when their organization [...]
Corporate Leaders: What Will Be Your Epitaph?
Memo To: CEOs and Aspiring CEOs From: John Bell Re: Your Epitaph as a CEO If you’re already in the C-Suite, I suggest you take a few moments to contemplate your epitaph. When your days on the throne are over, do you want to be remembered as Jack Bighead or Andy Goodfellow? The Epitaph of [...]
0210 | Mike Figliuolo
Mike is the Founder and Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a professional training firm focused on leadership development. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1993 where he was an honor graduate and a Distinguished Cadet. Upon graduation, he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army. He [...]

