Leadership X

For more than four decades, Dr. Jeff Gold has served as a police officer, firefighter, paramedic, fire chief, SWAT team member, bomb squad commander, elected official, and business owner. Along the way, he learned some of his most valuable lessons from the worst leaders he ever met. Leadership X is a field manual for anyone who has ever worked for a boss who confused rank with respect. Drawing on public safety, military history, politics, and business, from Cyrus the Great and Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Marines of Generation Kill, Herb Kelleher, and Richard Branson, it shows how to recognize counterfeit leadership and how to become the real thing. Inside, you will meet the leader who is the smartest person in the room (just ask him), the outsider who announces "This is how we did it back...," the Keyboard Leader who manages by mass email, the number two everyone called Darth Vader, and the sergeants major who quietly run the enlisted force.