The FIRED Leader

Reinventing the Future of Leadership

Paul McCarthy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

252 Seiten

2023
Practical Inspiration Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78860-483-3 (ISBN)

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A radical, refreshing, and practical anti-leadership book that addresses the open secret we all know to be true: our current approach to leadership identification, recruitment, onboarding, and development (IROD) isn’t working.

**Business Book Awards 2024 Finalist**

To survive disruption, organizations need disruptive leaders.

So they hire them. And then they ﬁre them.

It’s the open secret everyone in the leadership industry knows but nobody is addressing: leadership culture is toxic, and leadership systems have failed. Publicly, organizations say they want leaders to be innovative thinkers who challenge the status quo. Privately, conventional leadership culture wants nothing of the sort. Leaders deemed as ‘a bad culture ﬁt’ quickly ﬁnd themselves marginalized, ostracized, and even exorcised. The qualities that get them hired are the ones that get them ﬁred. Yet, these rebels and nonconformists often embody the very leadership qualities that organizations so desperately need to navigate disruption and adapt to the “new normal” of constant change.

Radically refreshing and practical, this book identiﬁes ﬁve leadership qualities (F.I.R.E.D. Leadership™) that are key to tomorrow’s leadership success and oﬀers a step-by-step blueprint to show organizations how to integrate these ﬁve crucial qualities into their current leadership identiﬁcation, recruitment, onboarding, and development processes.

'Exactly what we need to ﬁx our broken leaders.’- Whitney Johnson

‘A necessary read for anyone wanting to lead bravely.’ John Spence

Leadership maverick Paul McCarthy shows organizations how to reframe how they view their troublemakers, agitators, rebels, oddballs and shit-stirrers – to see the hidden leadership qualities driving those behaviors, and why they need them so desperately.

Paul McCarthy is a global thought leader regenerating the future of leadership and has impacted thousands of leaders across the world as part of developing their future leadership capacity, capability and competency.

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Part I| Leadership is broken

1| Introduction

Don’t shoot the messenger
Tallying the failure of leadership
Don’t ignore your saviors
F.I.R.E.D. Leadership
Why I wrote this book
Ego-based leadership landmines
Sparks from this chapter

2| The cost of leadership dysfunction

What ‘normal’ looks like
It’s ‘normal’. That doesn’t make it right
Perpetuating the vicious cycle
The price of toxicity
What we’re missing
Sparks from this chapter

3| Today’s failure to develop tomorrow’s leaders

Drowning out the voices you need to hear
A glimpse of the skills your leaders need… and aren’t getting
Things need to change – especially when they don’t work
New organizational structures = new leadership needs
Sparks from this chapter

4| The 13 unlucky steps to leadership identification, recruitment, onboarding, and development

1. Introductions
2. Informal 1:1s
3. Formal interviews
4. New hire processes
5. Onboarding Orientation
6. The honeymoon period
7. Prescribed learning pathway
8. Formalized 1:1 coaching
9. Learning and development checklist
10. Performance metrics
11. Performance coaching and mentoring
12. Annual performance review
13. To promote or not to promote
Sparks from this chapter

Part II| F.I.R.E.D. leadership

5| F is for fresh thinking

Fresh thinking in action
Fresh thinking in absentia
Refusing to listen to the prophets of doom
Seeing Fresh Thinkers for who they really are
Identifiers of fresh thinking

6| I is for inquisitive nature

Suppressing inquisitive natures
Why curiosity is crucial
The hypocrisy of valuing curiosity
Encouraging your inquisitives
Identifiers of being inquisitive

7| R is for real and accountable

The masks we wear
The art of authenticity
The art of accountability and responsibility
Identifiers of being real and accountable

8| E is for expressive and challenging

Seeing your challengers in a different light
Expressive and challenging in the real world
Listening and inviting challenge: The other side of the coin
Identifiers of being expressive and challenging

9| D is for direct and transparent

The games we’re forced to play
The high stakes at the table
Review of Test Data Indicates Conservatism for Tile Penetration
Identifiers of being direct and transparent

Part III| Continue the conversation
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2023
Zusatzinfo	B/w line drawings
Verlagsort	Tadley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
ISBN-10	1-78860-483-0 / 1788604830
ISBN-13	978-1-78860-483-3 / 9781788604833
Zustand	Neuware