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Fire Engineering Books: The Fire Chief's Toolbox
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By Ron Graner, Chief (Ret.)
This is not another book about how to put the wet stuff on the red stuff.
The Fire Chief's Toolbox presents a clear view of the personal and professional issues affecting a new fire chief and offers tools to address the issues successfully. The Fire Chief's Toolbox will provide readers with:
- Realistic insight into the knowledge, skills and abilities that every fire chief must have to succeed
- Guidelines for long-term career preparation
- An understanding of the job search and selection process
- A fundamental plan for assuming command
- An understanding of the importance of the chiefs role as a politician, educator, salesperson and marketer to assure career success
- Guidance for spouses and families of those who seek to become The Chief
- A reminder that the primary job of every fire chief is the safety of his or her personnel
As a future or current chief of any fire department, you will:
- Benefit from the practical, straightforward and common sense advice
- Discover the thought processes needed to meet the challenges that face every chief
- Gain insight that will help your family cope with the stresses your job as fire chief will bring to their lives
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Credentials, philosophy and assumptions
- Career preparation
- Fire chief position available
- The job search
- Researching position openings
- Application and selection
- The job offer
- Assuming command
- The policy makers
- Human resources and labor relations/unions
- Politics
- Standards of response coverage
- Outsourcing
- Why can't we run government like a business?
- Budgets and service delivery
- Purchasing
- Ethics
- View from the fire chief's office
- General management tools
- Tools for improvement
- Beyond suppression
- Fire chief, lessons learned climbing the ladder review
- Tools for your family and your personal values
- The golden rule
- Conclusion
- Exercises, check lists and reminders
- References
- Index
296 Pages/Hardcover/6x9/2007