Leadership [Paperback]

Rudolph Giuliani (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Miramax; Revised edition (June 13, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1401360343
• ISBN-13: 978-1401360344
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6.4 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,462 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Confusing self-celebration with leadership..., October 10, 2010

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Tobias Baerlocher (Lausanne, Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Leadership (Paperback)

This book does not provide any of the valuable insights in "Leadership" I was hoping & looking for.
It proposes very basic leadership principles in a highly unstructured manner.
Examples given to illustrate proposed principles are seldom of real value and often show-off, celebrating the pretended genious of the author.
Generally, examples given are a poor choice.
The political leader R.Giuliani deserves many credits for his accomplishments before and after 9/11.
However, in this book, he sets up a one-man show from childhood to retirement as NYC mayor.
He is sharing many personal experiences that I might have found interesting to read about in his biography, but that are of no value to me in my business life. All is just too obvious...
A big disappointment.

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing real time application, October 26, 2009

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Alexander B. Candee "Alexander Candee" (University of Miami! Coral Gables, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Leadership (Paperback)

I first heard of Giuliani's book while pursuing my undergraduate degree. I was taking a leadership course and the professor suggested it.

Rudy preaches the common principles you find in many books, but he offers a real time application for them by providing his own experience. He demonstrates to the reader how and why you must stick to specific leadership principles. Whether or not you like him as a politician, this book will make you respect his superior leadership.

2 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Insights into Leadership from one of the masters, December 13, 2007

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Brian H. Phelps (Pittsburgh, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Leadership (Paperback)

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.