Doug Roman is a brash, thirty-something CEO, heir-apparent to a company called Mooseland Stoneware. He assumes he will just waltz into the job after the death of the former CEO, his beloved Aunt Nan. But Aunt Nan has a posthumous surprise for him. She leaves behind a detailed letter telling him that he must first embark on a journey to learn the leadership imperatives that will prepare him to live his leadership legacy. He can only become CEO if, six months later, Mooseland's board unanimously agrees that he has indeed understood and begun to master these leadership imperatives. As you accompany Doug along this journey, you'll learn that leaving a lasting legacy is about more than just professing values -- you must demonstrate them by the way you live.
Your Leadership Legacy shows that as a leader, the legacy you live is the legacy you leave. The authors spent five years speaking to a cross-section of men and women from all walks of life, asking them who had left an indelible impression in their lives and, more importantly, why. They drew on this research to develop three Leadership Imperatives:
- Dare to be a person, not a position
- Dare to connect
- Dare to drive the dream -- that any leader can follow to create a lasting positive legacy.
