Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #75834 in Books
• Published on: 2006-12-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 323 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781593700751
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From the Inside Flap
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.



In this book you’ll learn:



***Your credibility is a valuable currency that takes time to build up. What you do, not what you say, is the ultimate test of your credibility, reinforcing your expectations***



***That leadership requires individuals and organizations to create an environment where people and their ideas can thrive***



***How to use stories to impress upon our new members the necessity of doing certain things***



***That the quickest ways to lose trust are to inconsistently apply and enforce rules and to allow your personal feelings to dictate what you will and won’t enforce***



***Why leading by example and from the front, doing not saying, is critical to you success***



Reading From Buddy to Boss is like turning to a trusted friend for wisdom and advice you can count on to improve your job performance. Use this book to master your leadership as well as your management skills and successfully make the transition to boss.

About the Author
About the author:

Chase Sargent is a decorated fire officer who spent more than 26 years with the City of Virginia Beach Fire and Rescue Department as a Firefighter/Paramedic, Lieutenant, Captain, Battalion Chief, and recently retired as a Division Chief in command of B-shift. He obtained his BS degree in Forestry and Wildlife, with a major in Fisheries Biology from Virginia Tech and his MPA from Golden Gate University. He completed the Executive Fire Officer program and is an NFA instructor. Chase is a member of VATF-2 and the Operations Chief for FEMA’s Urban Search and Rescue White Incident Support Team. Chase was the night operations officer at both the Oklahoma City Bombing and the World Trade Center Collapse. He is the president of Spec Rescue International, a training and consulting company in Virginia Beach. Chase has been the Chief Tactical Paramedic for the Norfolk division of the FBI since 1995 and is both COTOMS and OEMS qualified. Currently, he works as an independent contractor to the US Government (DOS/DSS) and volunteers as a fire fighter in Virginia Beach and as a paramedic for the Courthouse Volunteer Rescue Squad.

Customer Reviews

This book is about the "real thing"
If you are already a company level fire officer, or are about to become one, this is a must-have book for you. The author writes about his experiences in a realistic and readable guide to success as a leader and fire fighter.
No smoke and mirrors here, just the stuff you need to do a good job and still work well with your crews and survive in the firehouse.

Effective Service leadership? Indeed!
This book covers the basics of leadership as well as giving very good advice on how to integrate the advice into everyday situations. I would recommend this book to anyone who is looking for leadership skills, not just firefighters. Chase Sargent gives good down home advice which will help you in your future endeavors to promote your self as a true leader. This book is the one I would take if I could only have one book on leadership.

Not bad
The book is more a compilation of other author's ideas. Like every other book or class, there is something to take away from reading it but my overall impression of the book was that it was just average. Some of that opinion is influenced by the author's poor writing skills and the inferior book construction typical of PennWell publishing. If a coworker aspiring to become an officer or just promoted asked about the book, I would begrudgingly recommend it because I believe it is important to see and hear several ideas and theories and then determine what is right and what will work through critical thinking skills.