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How NOT to Lead
Lessons Every Manager Can Learn from Dumpster Chickens, Mushroom Farmers, and Other Office Offenders
Chase Cunningham (Author)
9781394201983, Wiley
Hardback, published 15 January 2024
224 pages
23.1 x 16.3 x 3.1 cm, 0.386 kg
Step Aside, Mediocre Leaders: Learn What NOT To Do! Ditch the fluff and sugarcoating and learn how to lead the way your people deserve. In How NOT To Lead, Dr. Chase Cunningham, a seasoned cybersecurity heavyweight and Retired Navy Chief, doesn't give you a textbook guide on leadership — he delivers a no-holds-barred, gloves-off masterclass on the lethal mistakes that'll tank your leadership game and ultimately sink your reputation and even your company's future. Want the brutal truth? This book slaps you with some cold, hard realities: Aimed squarely at managers, executives, and anyone brave enough to lead, How NOT To Lead is your audacious guide through the minefield of leadership pitfalls. If you've got the intestinal fortitude to read this book, then drop what you are doing and hitch up your britches for some tough love. Don't let mediocrity be your legacy, do better. Your employees deserve it and so do you!
Introduction ix Chapter 1 The Value of Knowing What NOT to Do 1 Chapter 2 The Only Currencies That Matter as a Leader 19 Time 19 Trust 25 Respect 33 The Most Valuable Currency 42 Chapter 3 You Deserve What You Tolerate 45 Chapter 4 Flat Organization, Flat Fail 61 Chapter 5 Don’t Be a Dumpster Chicken 69 Chapter 6 Go Slow to Be Fast 77 Chapter 7 Beware the Brilliant Jerk. 85 Chapter 8 Money, the Root of All Evil (But It May Yield the Fruit of Success) 93 Chapter 9 Don’t Be a Mushroom Farmer 105 Chapter 10 Choose Your Horse Wisely. 117 Chapter 11 Don’t Lose Perspective, and Never Let Your Ego (Or Title) Write Checks Your Ass Can’t Cash 129 Chapter 12 Get Past the Fatal Funnel 141 Chapter 13 Don’t Chase Unicorns 151 Chapter 14 Microscope, Telescope, or Mirror? 165 Chapter 15 Proof Is in the Pudding 175 References 185 Acknowledgments 191 About the Author 193 Index 195
Subject Areas: Business & management [KJ]
