{"id":1487,"date":"2018-03-20T14:16:15","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T18:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2018-03-20T14:16:15","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T18:16:15","slug":"alumnus-shares-thoughts-on-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2018\/03\/20\/alumnus-shares-thoughts-on-leadership\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus shares thoughts on leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Larry Angelilli of MoneyGram says leadership is much more than telling people what to do.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Larry Angelilli says 80 percent of what he does every day as CFO of MoneyGram International hadn\u2019t been invented when he was a student at University of Detroit.<\/p>\n

Angelilli, who earned his MBA in 1981, challenged Detroit Mercy students and a group of high school students on campus to rethink their definition of \u201cleadership\u201d during a program by the University\u2019s Institute for Leadership & Service.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people think being the boss is being a leader, but leadership is the opposite of being someone\u2019s boss,\u201d he said at Thursday\u2019s Leadership Slam.<\/p>\n

At MoneyGram International, a public global remittance company doing business in 200 countries, Angelilli oversees all global financial functions including corporate finance, tax, accounting, SED reporting, treasury, risk management and investor relations and oversees a staff of more than 350 people in eight countries.<\/p>\n

\u201cI work with people from different cultures from around the world, and what you have to understand as a leader is that what works for some people doesn\u2019t work for everyone,\u201d he said. \u201cYou have to understand and account for those cultural differences.\u201d<\/p>\n

And those differences aren\u2019t just across culture, they are often simply a matter of respecting another person\u2019s individuality.<\/p>\n

Angelilli remembers, as a first-time boss, cleaning an employee\u2019s workplace while she was away because he thought it would make her more productive. Instead, it upset her, but he learned a lesson that he took with him to future leadership roles.<\/p>\n

\u201cTelling other people what to do is actually the worst part of leadership,\u201d he said. The best part of leadership is supporting employees as they uncover their own leadership characteristics and succeed.<\/p>\n

Among other advice he offered students is to keep growing in your field, something he says has helped him throughout his career. He also told students that success, he said, comes from doing what you enjoy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know a lot of people think finance may be boring, but it\u2019s fun for me,\u201d he said, encouraging them to take their own enthusiasms into account when choosing what to study at college. \u201cYou can\u2019t pursue your education without having a base confidence in your life that you like what you\u2019re studying.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also told students to not be afraid of failure, because it can be a way to grow. In fact, he says he doesn\u2019t even like the word \u201cfailure.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo a lot of people, the word \u2018failure\u2019 seems like \u2018the end,\u2019 \u201d he said. \u201cI wish people would use the word \u2018setback,\u2019 because it\u2019s not the end. I\u2019ve been passed over for promotions and lost jobs, but these are only setbacks, they aren\u2019t the end.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last, and perhaps most important, he told students that a good leader understands that someone, somewhere, is looking at them as a role model, and that they should act accordingly, because tomorrow\u2019s leaders are being created by today\u2019s.<\/p>\n

The Leadership Slam is one of many programs offered to students by Detroit Mercy\u2019s Institute for Leadership & Service. You can help support this type of programming for our students by donating to the Campaign for University of Detroit Mercy here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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