Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life Audiobook (Free)

The person once named one of America’s ten “toughest” CEOs by Fortune magazine offers current and future leaders practical advice on how to make their companies and organizations far better.

Throughout his distinguished career-as a naval aviator, a U.S. Congressman, a top aide to four American presidents, a high-level diplomat, a CEO of two Lot of money 500 companies, as well as the just twice-serving Secretary of Protection in American history-Donald Rumsfeld has collected a huge selection of pithy, compelling, and about Rumsfeld’s Guidelines: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, Battle, and Life often humorous observations about command, business, and lifestyle. When Leader Gerald Ford ordered these aphorisms distributed to his White House personnel in 1974, the collection became referred to as ‘Rumsfeld’s Rules.’

First gathered mainly because three-by-five cards within a shoebox and typed up and circulated informally over the years, these eminently non-partisan rules have amused and enlightened presidents, business executives, chiefs of staff, foreign officials, diplomats, and associates of Congress. They earned praise in the Wall Road Journal as ‘Required reading,’ and from the brand new York Times which said: ‘Rumsfeld’s Guidelines can be profitably read in virtually any organization…The best reading, though, are his sprightly tips on inoculating oneself against that dread White House disease, the inflated ego.’

Distilled from a profession of uncommon breadth and accomplishment, and organized under practical topics like hiring people, running a interacting with, and dealing with the press, Rumsfeld’s Rules will benefit people at every stage in their careers and in every walk of life, from aspiring politicos and industrialists to recent college graduates, teachers, and business leaders.