Perfect people make lousy leaders.
Sure, leadership books are great and all, but they never really get into the nitty-gritty - like when rats are falling from the rafters of your warehouse, or the zoning board is putting a drag on your building project, or your homemade rocket launcher doesn't fire as far as you expected it to. Salvaged: Leadership Lessons from the Junkyard never deals in abstractions, whether from the analytics or from the sacred Scriptures. You'll laugh, you' ll think, and you might even pray to make better decisions, persevere through bigger challenges, and be a better leader for your people.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Cake and Pickles (and No, I'm Not Pregnant)
- Aim High! (Especially with an Acetylene-Powered Homemade Bazooka)
- Rats in the Rafters
- Bring Donuts When You're Late (and Don't Be Late)
- The Negotiator
- Rolls-Royce Car Pool
- Smoke-Filled Rooms
- It's Good to Have Friends in Low Places
- Import/Export
- Questioning Captain Satellite
- Gambling on Answers
- Profanity Must Be Earned
- A Flamethrower and Immunity
- Getting the Right People on the Bus
- Good to Great?
- Management Techniques Are Addictive
- Babies Don't Earn Paychecks
- Scale Like an Investor (If You Want to Mess Up)
- Boring is Good
- Perfect People Make Lousy Leaders
- Questions for Young (and Dumb) Leaders
- Silos
- Risk-Adjustment School
- Leadership as a Code Word for Power
- Get Off Your Pedestal before It Gets Knocked Over
- Is It Lonely at the Top
- Your Business Will Fail (Get over It)
- Know Thyself
- The Freestarter
- Never Buy Cheap Champagne
- Acta Non Verba
