Leadership Lessons Learned and Applied: in Emergency Management and Beyond

This is a book about leadership in Emergency Management. One of the things we do in Emergency Management is critique our work and document it, through a concept of “Lessons Learned”. What does not get performed so often is the actual applying of those lessons for the future. History tends to repeat itself.Beyond the profession of Emergency Management – and including it, I believe leaders need their own leaders to be effective. One cannot lead by themselves. While this is a book on leadership, it is also a book on real disasters which have occurred in the United States.Inside you will find a book on some of the major disasters and events in the United States, where the American Red Cross has had a role – most of these were ones the author had some leadership involvement in. A bit of storytelling, a bit of personal memoir, and hopefully a few ‘aha’ lessons readers can take back with them to apply themselves. Read more