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Summary: Great leadership wisdom
Review: Love him or hate him, Donald Rumsfeld gets results. While this book is based on the famous 'Rumsfeld's Rules' it gives great examples of Rumsfeld's leadership wisdom and credentials from his days as a Congressman, cleaning house in the Ford administration, his days at Searle pharmaceuticals, and today leading the Defense Department. Short informative chapters give great insight into the man the press fears and respects. Highly recommended.
Rating:
Summary: Great leadership wisdom
Review: Love him or hate him, Donald Rumsfeld gets results. While this book is based on the famous 'Rumsfeld's Rules' it gives great examples of Rumsfeld's leadership wisdom and credentials from his days as a Congressman, cleaning house in the Ford administration, his days at Searle pharmaceuticals, and today leading the Defense Department. Short informative chapters give great insight into the man the press fears and respects. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Vulgar and a disgrace
Review: Publisher McGraw-Hill has stooped to an all-time low with this vulgar and disgraceful attempt to cash in on the impending war by presenting Mr. Rumsfeld as a business maverick. In reality, he's nothing more than a bitter war monger.Shame on you McGraw-Hill and Mr. Krames - what a pity that this once admired publisher now slimes its way through the business world.
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Summary: Timely Book for Developing Leaders
Review: Reviewer is the Director of the Center for Career and Leadership Development at Purdue University Calumet, a regional campus of Purdue University located in Northwest Indiana. I don't follow politics very closely. However, I became intrigued with Donald Rumsfeld simply by watching some of his press conferences. So I decided to explore the character a bit further by reading Mr. Krames' book, "The Rumsfeld Way" - and I'm glad I did! The book has some biographical elements in it, which allow the reader to understand Rumsfeld the man. But best of all, the book is loaded with practical tips and tactics used by Rumsfeld the leader. I highly recommend "The Rumsfeld Way" for anyone looking to develop his or her leadership style so that they are highly understood in any situation and well prepared to handle anything that comes their way. In my job, I help college students to develop their leadership abilities and I have used the information presented in Mr. Krames' previous book ("The Jack Welch Lexicon of Leadership") in some of the training classes we conduct. Likewise, I plan to use this new book the same way because my students will be able to relate to its timeliness.
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Summary: the paper in this book is great...
Review: the paper in this book is great. it has many uses. for example, you could wipe your arse with it. but if you're looking for a book that might teach you something, this isn't it. yes, i bought it and read it. then i put it down and i laughed at what a huge joke it is.
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Summary: Great book about a great leader!
Review: This book has it all - from the early days with the great presidnet ever - R. Reagan to the Presidnet Bush! Rummy was there! From shaking hands with Saddam and giving him the wink to gas the Kurds to actually capturing Saddam for the American people. He is a great leader!
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Summary: Little substace
Review: This book has very little substance. It written in a strange style, and little summaries at the end of each chapter. This is a very fast read, double spaced and all. Though this book does have some interesting facts it is far from a bio or an account of Rumsfelds time as SoD. I wouldn't pay full price for this book, but if you want a quick read get it used!
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Summary: Running towards the smoke
Review: This book is neither biography nor a historical work but rather an analysis of Donald Rumsfeld's leadership and management style in government and business. It is an easy read with only 213 pages of text (or 244 pages with notes and index added) and has a useful and brief summary of the 'Rumsfeld Way' at the end of each chapter, ideal for a trainer conducting an in-house management training session. Personally I have enormous respect for DR, although I imagine he wouldn't be an easy man to work for and it would possibly be easy to fall foul of him. Yet there is no doubt he has always been the man 'running towards the smoke,' and not just on that fateful September 11 day when his Pentagon was in flames around him. It was DR who came back to run the Ford Whitehouse after the trauma of Watergate and the destruction of the Nixon presidency; and it was the same man who accepted the challenge of a battling pharmaceutical company, GD Searle,that had racked up eight losing quarters before being turned around by the new CEO. As the 13th and 21st US Defense Secretary, Rummy has the distinction of being both the youngest and oldest person to hold that great office. It is doubtful if the US has ever had a better 'minister of war'-as borne testimony to by the highly successful American-led blitzkieg in the recent Iraqi war. DR has become something of a cult figure with his straight talking, no-nonsense style. He is a man that relishes his job and is not interested in courting popularity, although at this late stage of his life he has attracted it, through sheer performance and his sense of humour. At a press conference at the end of the recent war, an Afro-American major, asked him a question relating to early retirement benefits for Army personnel. Rummy had a field day answering that: "You are asking a 70 year old about early retirement?," the Defense Secretary said with mock horror and a wicked grin that reminded me of the cartoon character 'Whalesteeth' (in Chick Young's "Dagwood and Blondie" series), although his critics would probably refer to him as 'sharksteeth'. That quip was vintage Rumsfeld and will obviously make the pages of later, and more complete, works on him ( Krames book was published early in 2002). Indeed, books on Rummy will no doubt doubt be a growth industry by the time he steps down. How long that will be is anyone's guess, but current indications would indicate he may well go the full distance of a Bush presidency which would make him 76 at the close of two terms. America and the world have been well served by this feisty warrior - and the subject, like the book, is certainly appreciated by this Australian.
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Summary: A good explanation of the man.
Review: This book was a fairly easy read and explains the way Rumsfeld has chosen to lead and take chances throughout his career. He's the youngest man to be elected to the House of Representatives and the only man to serve as Secretary of Defense twice. Once you read this book you'll understand how he's achieved success in government and as the CEO of major corporations. It's worth the price of admission.
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Summary: A desultory read
Review: This book was lazily researched, devoid of any discipline or focus and suggested nothing more than an effort to capitalize on Rumsfeld's recent celebrity in the guise of a management book. That it was written by an editor with a major publisher is astonishing. I found it's primary value to be as a way of getting to sleep after a long day.
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