Your Team Can't Follow You Until They Know Where You're Going.
Your success as a leader begins with writing your Personal Leadership Philosophy. This powerful book shows you how.
Does your team know what to expect from you? What you value? How you'll act in certain situations? How you'll measure performance? If your answer is no, how can you ever be an effective leader? Quite simply, you can't. You're just floundering blindly in an unforgiving economic sea. That's the central, sobering message of The Leader's Compass, 2nd Edition: A Personal Leadership Philosophy Is Your Key to Success, a book written by Academy Leadership colleagues Ed Ruggero and Dennis F. Haley. This popular book, first published in 2002, is the story of how one ad agency manager developed his Personal Leadership Philosophy (PLP) detailing what he expects from his team and from himself. Written in a fictional format that grabs the reader's attention and brings the ideas brilliantly to life, it shows today's leaders how (and why) to create their own "compass."
Ultimately, say Ruggero and Haley, if you have trained your people to standard, inspired their willingness, and consistently looked after their interests, they will be prepared to accomplish any goal, anytime, anywhere. Publishing a PLP helps create an environment for these things to happen. It helps you become a strong, centered, articulate leader who can keep your team on course in even the roughest waters.
