Leadership: Leatherbound, Signed Limited Edition

FROM OUR EDITORS

A Barnes & Noble Exclusive
Beautifully made, individually numbered, signed by Rudy Giuliani himself, and created to support The Twin Towers Fund, our special edition of Leadership is a book to be treasured. Each copy is bound in elegant deep burgundy leather and, like fine editions of the classics, has gilt-edged pages as well as a satin ribbon bookmark. You'll want to pass this keepsake volume, which captures the insights of one of our nation's most distinguished leaders, along to your children and grandchildren so that they can better understand the achievements and heroism of our time. Our exclusive edition of Leadership, published by Miramax Books, will definitely be the cornerstone of your personal library. In addition, all of our proceeds from the sale of this book will be donated to The Twin Towers Fund. Only a limited number of copies have been produced, so please order now, or you may miss your chance to own this unique and historic book.

Rudy Giuliani's Leadership is also available as a non-autographed hardcover book and as an audiobook.

More About The Twin Towers Fund
The Twin Towers Fund was started by Rudy Giuliani to provide support, assistance, and recognition to the families of the uniformed officers from the New York City Police and Fire Departments, The Port Authority, Court Officers, and civilian rescue workers who perished or were seriously injured during the rescue of more than 20,000 people from the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Since its inception, The Twin Towers Fund has raised more than $205 million and distributed over $195 million to the affected families.

SYNOPSIS

Writing in his familiar voice -- a New Yorker's bluntness, leavened by his passion for ideas -- Rudolph Giuliani demonstrates in Leadership how the leadership skills he practices can be employed successfully by anyone who has to run anything. After all, until the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center pushed him into an unwanted role in history, Giuliani was only months away from leaving office with a reputation as one of the most effective mayors New York had ever seen.

Having inherited a city ravaged by crime and crippled in its ability to serve its citizens, Giuliani shows how he found that every aspect of his career up to that point-from clerking for the formidable judge who demanded excellence (and rewarded it with a lifetime of loyalty) to busting organized crime during his years as a federal attorney-shaped his thinking about leadership and prepared him for the daunting challenges ahead. Giuliani's successes in turn strengthened his conviction about the core qualities required to be an effective leader, no matter what the size of the organization, be it an international corporation or a baseball team.

In detailing his principles of leadership, Giuliani tells captivating stories that are personal as well as prescriptive: how he learned the importance of staying calm in the face of attack from his father's boxing lessons-as well as the need to stand up to bullies; how a love of reading was early instilled in him by his mother and grew into a determination to master new subjects, and not rely on only the word of experts; how, in his recent fight with prostate cancer, learning to make decisions at the right time and with the right information reflected decision-making on a larger scale.

Leadership, Giuliani writes, works both ways: it is a privilege, but it carries responsibilities-from imposing a structure suitable to an organization's purpose, to forming a team of people who bring out the best in each other, to taking the right, unexpected risks. A leader must develop strong beliefs, and be held accountable for the results-principles he illustrates with candor and courage throughout the pages of this important and timely book. He never knew that the qualities he describes would be put to the awful test of September 11, he says; but he never doubted that they would prevail.

FROM THE CRITICS

Business Week

An entertaining read...marked by an obvious passion for the city he led.

The New York Times

A testimony to heroism from someone who has first-hand knowledge of what it takes.

Newsweek

The book sparkles.

Bookpage

Lively yet practical...crisp and authoritative.

The New York Times Book Review