Rumsfeld's Rules - Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book has been almost eighty years in the making. Its contents are owed to some of the most brilliant men and women of the last century, some of whom I had the great privilege of working with at various points along the way. Among them, no one is more responsible for convincing me to take those pieces of wisdom and put them into one document than Gerald R. Ford, the thirty-eighth President of the United States.

When I had the idea of turning Rumsfeld’s Rules into a book, I turned to two young writers who helped me on my memoir and who have been invaluable through the publication process. Keith Urbahn and Matt Latimer of Javelin have helped me organize my collection of rules and transform them into a narrative. Without their ...