Articles by Mike Fitzgerald

Mike Fitzgerald

After 40 years in executive roles, primarily in financial services, Mike Fitzgerald founded Fitzgerald MSI to continue to exercise his passion for talent development, executive coaching and analytics-supported talent decisions. Fitzgerald MSI helps clients develop next-generation leaders, complete the skills of existing managers and leaders, and ensure succession plans are not merely replacement plans by preparing potential successors for leadership.

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Feb 28, 2022

Re-Recruit Your Best People

The more I see evidence of the Great Resignation, the more I believe it isn’t a crisis. It’s…

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Feb 26, 2020

Beware The Ideas of March

In William Shakespeare’s play, Julius Caesar, a soothsayer warns Caesar to “Beware the Ides of March.”  On the…

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Feb 12, 2020

What’s Your Sign?

The more I drive (or maybe, it’s the older I get), the more I’m convinced that yellow traffic…

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Jul 15, 2019

Character Matters

I was taught long ago that in times like these, character isn’t built–  it’s revealed.  Sure, successfully managing…

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May 28, 2019

Dear Graduate

Dear Graduate: I’m worried, graduate. I looked for the story on your graduation in the news.  Where are…