The Golden Rule of Leadership

About the Book

The Golden Rule of Leadership introduces a powerful new formula for success in business. Drawing extensively on his more than twenty-five years in various leadership positions, author Dick Aude builds a powerful case that leadership is an active choice that people make. He outlines the six steps that leaders must execute in order to succeed. And he offers important insights-as well as practical advice-for applying The Golden Rule of Leadership at every step in the process.

Through numerous case studies and examples Aude:

• Reveals how to build a compelling vision.
• Introduces a two-tier organization structure that is essential to the successful accomplishment of your mission.
• Outlines the four key challenges that prevent teams from succeeding, and tells how to overcome them.
• Identifies the eight key things geographically dispersed teams must do to succeed.
• Explains the five elements essential to building trust.
• Describes the seven prerequisites of any successful "change agenda."
• Outlines the four primary causes of dysfunctional cross-functional relationships, and introduces a simple 10-step formula for working effectively across organizational boundaries.
• Illustrates the four key principles underlying successful employee engagement, and describes three straightforward techniques for applying those principles.

About the Author

Dick Aude is president of Nantucket Group, Inc., a leadership development firm he founded in 1988. He?s worked closely with a number of Fortune 100 companies to develop and deliver critical leadership programs, and to facilitate various strategic interventions. Dick is the author of Building the Twenty-First Century Corporation: A Corporate Text on Successful Reengineering and Continuous Improvement. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School.