Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #388834 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-13
• Released on: 2007-06-13
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781401360344
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Amazing real time application
I first heard of Giuliani's book while taking a leadership course pursuing my undergraduate degree.

Rudy preaches the common principles you find in many books, but he offers a real time application for them by providing his own experiences on how he ensured he satisfied those principles. Whether or not you politically like him, this book will make you respect his superior leadership.

Insights into Leadership from one of the masters
No matter what you may think of his politics Rudolph Giuliani's Leadership offers excellent insights into what it takes to lead a large and dynamic organization such as New York City. The mayor presents his experience in effectively leading New York City as culminating in the trial of handling the September 11th terrorist attacks and the organizing the recovery effort. Giuliani does not focus the book primarily on the events of 9/11, but rather lists other lessons he learned during his career and tenure as mayor that helped him lead from a position of strength during the cities darkest hour. Leadership begins with the mayor recounting how he made it a point to start every day with a morning meeting where the agenda for the day would be outlined with all of the cities top officials present so everyone was on the same page. As the book progresses, Giuliani discusses leadership traits in a hierarchal fashion, eventually addressing leaders that posses a higher purpose as their motivation. At times, Giuliani seems unnecessarily repetitive in his coverage of how he applied leadership skills during his time as mayor before 9/11, but then again Giuliani tells us one of the first elements of being a good leader is not to assume anything, so when Giuliani tells a story he starts from the beginning each time. This trait of Giuliani's is undoubtedly one of the things that allowed him to handle New York City's many crises so effectively. Leadership is not just a very long resume for Giuliani and those wanting to know more about the man as well as the mayor will be pleasantly surprised. Giuliani affirms how he, like all leaders, are not born but are created from their experiences where leadership can be taught, learned, and developed. Readers interested in the link between leadership and communication will also find extensive coverage of this topic in Leadership. The mayor describes how talking to the community made he and his staff aware of issues that might have otherwise gone unnoticed and they were able to tell the community how to help themselves. The mayor was also effective in getting the city government, and especially its upper management, working together as a unit again by organizing the cities commissioners into groups responsible for tasks. By eliminating the previously adversarial position previously adopted by city commissioners, Giuliani was able to make sure that the city's leaders were working for the city and not individual interests. At a time when many American's are feeling that the conversation in this country has stopped and 2-way communication between our leaders and the populace has broken down, Leadership is a refreshing discourse which reveals that are at least some leaders that still understand the basics of good leadership. If the mayor's presidential campaign bid is successful, we can only hope that he will remember the foundation that has allowed him to lead and hope he assigns Leadership as mandatory reading for all of the nation's leaders.

Great Book on Practical Leadership in Action
It's completely coincidental that I picked this book up during political season. I overheard someone say that this was a great book on leadership and being the leadership connoisseur that I am, I bought it and gave it a read.

This isn't your normal everyday leadership book detailing x number of leadership principles, checklists and how-tos. Leadership is really more of a biography of Rudy Giuliani's career specifically focusing on the leadership principles that helped him accomplish all that he has. It's not a complete story on his life, just the leadership highlights.

Giuliani's gives us real life example after example where his leadership principles were put to the test. As the man that "fixed" New York City from much of the crime and decay that was prevalent before he became mayor, and also kept it running after 9/11, we know that when it comes to the testing of leadership principles, Rudy's been through it.

Much of the book focuses on the aftermath of 9/11, but it's not a chronological narrative. Giuliani breaks the book into chapters, each outlining a leadership principle that helped him through his careers both as prosecutor and as mayor, and architect of the 9/11 recovery. Within each chapter Giuliani pulls stories from his life that show these skills in action and the result and accomplishments that followed.

Rudy isn't necessarily my man for the 2008 election but after reading Leadership, I have a newfound respect for the man.