This book offers managers, officers, leaders and aspiring members nuggets and tips for navigating the choppy waters that leaders and managers deal with daily. A collection of posts and ideas from The New Fire Officer site provides real world experiences in the fire service, where things move fast and success is critical, these offerings can be used in any industry. We all have our own ideas of what leadership is and how we should direct our efforts in cultivating it. Over the years I've had the honor and opportunity to be a fire officer in both the volunteer and career settings. Both have their own unique challenges, but the ability to communicate and work with people is just as important in each and this book provides some of those tools.
This book is a good read for the whole team! No matter what your job title is, from the chief to the ground pounders we are all leaders in someway or another in our daily life's and professions. This book would be a great read every couple of years to make sure we keep ourselves in check.
Fantastic, quick read. Great words of wisdom I will put to good use throughout my career. Highly recommended for anyone in a management field, not just the fire service.
I wish there was more flow and organization of the ideas in this book. If it broke the ideas/suggestions into categories i would rate it higher. Seemed scattered.