Authors: Ed Ruggero and Dennis F. Haley
Length: 139 pages
Publisher: Academy Leadership Publishing (April 15, 2005)
ISBN-10: 0972732314
ISBN-13: 978-0972732314

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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."

As a bonus, this new edition features Bob McDonald's own Personal Leadership Philosophy, which he regularly updates and follows while serving as vice chairman of a multibillion-dollar business, Procter & Gamble. You'll learn how to:

• Identify the values and characteristics that make an effective leader
• Analyze your own leadership style and personality
• Create a PLP that articulates the principles you want to model and inspire in others
• Communicate these principles to the men and women you lead.

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.

About the Authors

Ed Ruggero served in the U.S. Army for eleven years and is a member of West Point's class of 1980. He is the author of five novels and several works of non-fiction, including Combat Jump: The Young Men Who Led the Assault Into Fortress Europe, July 1943 (HarperCollins 2003). Ruggero is a member of the Academy Leadership team and an experienced keynote speaker on leadership and leader development. For more information, visit www.edruggero.com.

Dennis F. Haley graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1967, after which he served in the Nuclear Surface Navy. Following a tour of duty in Vietnam, he returned to Pennsylvania and joined the family business, transforming it from a five-man operation to a multi-million-dollar company. After the company was sold in 1997, Dennis decided to use his military experiences to help others become successful business leaders. He now serves as Founder and CEO of Academy Leadership.