No Exceptions Leadership: The Leadership Handbook

by Jason M Hoevelmann

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.

Genres: Leadership

148 pages, Paperback

Published December 21, 2016

Reviews

[Jeff Bobin · Rating 2 out of 5]

While there are a few good nuggets on leadership here it is poorly organized and there is no depth to bring understanding.

The book is 100 sections with no titles or index to tell you where what you are looking for might be. No table of contents to point you to where you might want to find some area of leadership.

This is written by a fireman that does training so there are some good points that are pointed out in a very simple way and this is a quick read. Speaking from experience is ok but it is hard to know why he thinks what he does and it feels more like a strong opinion.

If you are looking for a very basic book on leadership you might find a nugget or two

[Earl Pike · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is not bad per se. The information and guidance is sound. However, the book is written as if the author is speaking which makes it very difficult to follow at times. Additionally, there are many grammatical errors that are, for myself, very distracting. As for the content, it is fairly bland. I found nothing profound about the insights provided. The book is written as a collection of thoughts on how to lead which are, in a word, generic. It is a very short read. Give it a quick read if you can find it used, otherwise, there are many other fire dept leadership books available.

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a good book, with short descriptions of a lot of good leadership principles - some of which have shown up in other classes, some not. One that's in there a couple of times is the equivalent of "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" - in the book it's more like "You're going to have these problems, guaranteed - if you're not ready to deal with them, don't take the promotion." Good counsel.

Problem - the grammar is bad, and the formatting is consistently bad. Both of those detract from the message of the book.

[Dustin Deathe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good information to review or gloss over every once in a while. The author started to run out of quality ”plays” for his playbook and started to repeat ideas to add more to the book. however, it is a good grab and review book for motivation or guidance.

[Jason T · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great desktop reference with some key points for you to review on how to be the best leader you can.