The FIRED Leader: Reinventing the Future of Leadership

To survive disruption, organizations need disruptive leaders. 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 integrate these qualities into current leadership identification, recruitment, onboarding, and development processes.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 252 pages
Publication date: 28 November 2023
Publisher: Practical Inspiration Publishing

Organizations must embrace disruptive leaders to thrive in the face of disruption. As a result, they recruit and hire these individuals. However, a hidden truth in the leadership industry remains unaddressed: leadership culture is toxic, and leadership systems have failed. Publicly, organizations profess their desire for leaders who are innovative thinkers who challenge the status quo. In reality, conventional leadership culture seeks to suppress such leaders. Those labeled as "bad culture" are swiftly marginalized, ostracized, and even exorcised. The qualities that initially secure their hiring are the same ones that lead to their termination. Nevertheless, these rebels and nonconformists often possess the very leadership qualities that organizations desperately need to navigate disruption and adapt to the "new normal" of constant change.

In this groundbreaking and pragmatic book, Paul McCarthy identifies five essential leadership qualities (F.I.R.E.D. Leadership™) that will be crucial for leadership success in the future. He provides a step-by-step blueprint for organizations to integrate these qualities into their current leadership identification, recruitment, onboarding, and development processes. This book offers a much-needed solution to address the brokenness of our leaders.

"A necessary read for anyone wanting to lead bravely," says Whitney Johnson. John Spence also praises it, stating, "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."

Weight: 518g
Dimension: 146 x 224 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788605724