This document summarizes the book "One Piece of Paper" by Mike Figliuolo. The book provides a method for leaders to define their entire leadership philosophy in a simple yet profound way using just one piece of paper. Leaders articulate their philosophy through creating short statements called "maxims" that address four aspects of leadership: leading yourself, leading thinking, leading people, and leading a balanced life. Once created, these maxims can help leaders improve by living and sharing their personal philosophy.

1. Priya Ravichandran

2. 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.

3. Mike Figliuolo
Managing Director, thoughtLEADERS,LLC
Twitter: @Figliuolo
http://www.thoughtleadersllc.com/team/mi
ke-figliuolo/

4. ACCOLADES
If 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

5. 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.”

6. 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)

7. 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)

8. LEADERSHIP MAXIMS
Helps 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

9. ASPECTS OF LEADERSHIP

10. 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?

11. 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?

12. 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?

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

14. MAKING IT REAL
 Living your maxims
 Sharing

15. STRENGTHS:
• Comprehensible
• Simple yet profound
• Personal Leadership can be improved if
implemented

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

17. Make Sure you follow the maxims you wrote…