Synopses & Reviews
Whether you're a new officer or in need of a mentor, From Buddy to Boss: Effective Fire Service Leadership, is a must-have management book you'll turn to over and over again. Fire service veteran Chase Sargent has taken his popular course and written a no-holds barred leadership book for the fire service in a conversational and easy-to-read style. He tells you how to accept and survive politics, deal with the fringe employees, and keep your cool -- tricks of the trade that usually takes years to acquire.
Table of Contents
(Chapter 1) & The Organizational Foundation for Leadership
(Chapter 2) Knowing Yourself and Others
(Chapter 3) & Universal rules for survival
(Chapter 4) & Keeping the Humanity in your Leadership
(Chapter 5) & Being tested as a new leader
(Chapter 6) & Maintaining technical competence
(Chapter 7) & Understanding and enforcing policy
(Chapter 8) & Evaluating People
(Chapter 9) & Prejudice, Diversity and sexual harassment
(Chapter 10) & Anger and violence in the workplace
(Chapter 11) & Decision Making & Its not Tarot Cards
(Chapter 12) & Accountability and responsibility
(Chapter 13) & Battle Field Firefighting
(Chapter 14) & Team life cycles & transitional team evaluation
(Chapter 15) & Team decision making
(Chapter 16) & Planning and implementation
(Chapter 17) & Change
(Chapter 18) & The Business of the Business
(Chapter 19) & When leadership fails
(Conclusion) & Changing organizational culture one individual at a time.